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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

In D&D, the DM is the only source describing the state of the world, so players *must* find out the visible effects of their spell before the game can continue. That's not the case IRL. The state of the world is composed from different sources and metrics that update at different rates.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

When sources conflict, managers choose what data to use to construct into knowledge. And since listening to the downstream people is optional, "the magic wish machine works" becomes organizational knowledge. The outer system (delivery) must absorb the blow from the failure of the inner system.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

In D&D, some spells are illusions, meaning that you can say "I roll to disbelieve" and see through the effect. Other spells are very much real; you cannot e.g. disbelieve your way out of Mordenkainen's Your Brain Fucking Explodes because it is actually altering reality (your brain, into shrapnel).

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kylie4Bob @kayfourbee.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.social

It's interesting read that having just done Jury duty, where the judge explicitly said we should use our common sense and experience of the world (i.e. lived experience) in coming to a verdict

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