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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8238978" data-attributes="member: 42582">All &quot;real as thought&quot; means here is imagined. Unicorns are also &quot;real as thought&quot; in exactly the same way. But that doesn't mean they're real. In fact they're not. And their non-reality is not just a lack of tangible reality. It's a lack of reality per se.No one is disputing the difference between the GM telling you something s/he already worked out - for convenience, let's call it &quot;notes&quot; - and the GM telling you something s/he is making up now.But neither is any literal sense an exploration of anything. You're not &quot;exploring&quot; the GM's mind. You're asking questions and getting answers. When you say I open the door and the GM says you see a dog behind it, the action declaration poses the question what is behind the door and the GM answers it by reference to his/her notes (on the premise that she's not just making it up).This isn't terribly opaque or complicated as a process. I read explanations of it when I was a child. There's no need to shroud it in obscurity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8238978, member: 42582"] All "real as thought" means here is [I]imagined[/I]. Unicorns are also "real as thought" in exactly the same way. But that doesn't mean they're real. In fact they're not. And their non-reality is not just a lack of tangible reality. It's a lack of reality per se. No one is disputing the difference between [I]the GM telling you something s/he already worked out[/I] - for convenience, let's call it "notes" - and [I]the GM telling you something s/he is making up now.[/I] But neither is any literal sense an exploration of anything. You're not "exploring" the GM's mind. You're asking questions and getting answers. When you say [I]I open the door [/I]and the GM says [I]you see a dog behind it[/I], the action declaration poses the question [I]what is behind the door [/I]and the GM answers it by reference to his/her notes (on the premise that she's not just making it up). This isn't terribly opaque or complicated as a process. I read explanations of it when I was a child. There's no need to shroud it in obscurity. [/QUOTE]

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