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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9705515" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Okay. Now: How do we then make sense of a claim such as "I reject F because W' is unrealistic."?Because that sort of claim is precisely why, for example, a player might balk at Bastilles & Basilisks 7th Edition, because it contains elements that are "unrealistic". Or why someone might assert--as has happened in this very thread--that it is problematical ("unrealistic" is known to be a flawed word, so some variation like "lacking verisimilitude" etc.) to have a mechanic which resolves an action by having failure indicate that a bad situation has occurred as a result of the undertaken effort, for one reason or another.In such things, W' itself is specifically being called out as wrong, bad, incorrect, unacceptable, etc., etc., specifically because it conflicts with W. Even when the actual content of the real world is more similar to the thing described in W' (hence my repeated reference back to the lockpicking example).</blockquote>