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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7403247" data-attributes="member: 42582">Interaction is a misnomer here, or at best a metaphor.The participants at the table interact with one another. But the players don't &quot;interact&quot; with the gameworld. They describe things that their PCs are doing, and the GM describes things that happen to, or about, their PCs.This is an illusion created by thinking of the gameworld as objectively and independently existing.How many belt loops are on the trousers that Watson is wearing when he first meets Holmes (in A Study in Scarlet, I think)? To the best of my recollection, Doyle doesn't tell us. But that doesn't mean Watson's trousers have &quot;Schroedinger's belt loops&quot;. It just means that no one has established that element of the fiction yet. This is the case in all fictions, given that no one can give a total description of anything.What colour is the ceiling of the tavern in the Keep (of B2 fame)? I'm pretty sure Gygax doesn't mention it - but that doesn't mean it's &quot;Schroedinger's ceiling&quot;. It just means that, if any participant in the game wants to know what colour the ceiling is, someone is going to have to make that up.There are all sorts of ways of making things up in a RPG. The resolution of declared action is one such way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7403247, member: 42582"] [I]Interaction[/I] is a misnomer here, or at best a metaphor. The participants at the table interact with one another. But the players don't "interact" with the gameworld. They describe things that their PCs are doing, and the GM describes things that happen to, or about, their PCs. This is an illusion created by thinking of the gameworld as objectively and independently existing. How many belt loops are on the trousers that Watson is wearing when he first meets Holmes (in A Study in Scarlet, I think)? To the best of my recollection, Doyle doesn't tell us. But that doesn't mean Watson's trousers have "Schroedinger's belt loops". It just means that [I]no one has established that element of the fiction yet[/I]. This is the case in all fictions, given that no one can give a total description of anything. What colour is the ceiling of the tavern in the Keep (of B2 fame)? I'm pretty sure Gygax doesn't mention it - but that doesn't mean it's "Schroedinger's ceiling". It just means that, if any participant in the game wants to know what colour the ceiling is, someone is going to have to make that up. There are all sorts of ways of making things up in a RPG. The resolution of declared action is one such way. [/QUOTE]

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