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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7344801" data-attributes="member: 42582">It depends what you mean by "is a real place" - some of my games are rather gonzo (eg Marvel Heroic; epic-tier 4e) and so in that sense could never be mistaken for documentaries.But if you are talking about "immersion" or a sense of "inhabitation" then that it is a very high priority for me, and I think for most of my players. But the method of action resolution is rather orthogonal to that. If the player declares "I search the study for the map", that does not involve any loss of inhabitation of the character. If the roll is then made, that is no different from any other rolling of the dice that the player does in the course of play. And if it comes up successful and the GM affirms "Yes, you find the map" - well, that doesn't involve any departure from immersion, realism or verisimilitude either.</blockquote>