After 3 days of seeing the word Verisimilitude in use... I concluded that it had no meaning at all and moved on. Everyone seems to have a variant idea on what it means.

Heres one from Wikipedia. (note: This entry is being debated.)

QuoteVerisimilitude is a philosophical concept that distinguishes between the truth and the falsity of assertions and hypotheses.[1] The problem of verisimilitude is the problem of articulating what it takes for one false theory to be closer to the truth than another false theory.

And one from Literary Terms

QuoteThe sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic and believable. For instance, the reader possesses a sense of verisimilitude when reading a story in which a character cuts his finger, and the finger bleeds. If the character's cut finger had produced sparks of fire rather than blood, the story would not possess verisimilitude. Note that even fantasy novels and science fiction stories that discuss impossible events can have verisimilitude if the reader is able to read them with suspended disbelief. Cf. Willing Suspension of Disbelief.

It is at least not as bad as watching people on BGG say "RPG". What exactly they meant could be anything from cops-n-robbers, to storytelling, to playing chess, to etc. Possibly on rare occasion actually meaning a real RPG.

Punting the ball back into court... Like thats going to happen...

There may be times too when the players thought they were in no threat. But were unaware of factors that could have gotten their characters very dead if they had slipped up or if events had gone differently.

The death trap that was never sprung, the orcs with the poisoned blades they never got hit by. The ogre cave they totally bypassed by some quirk.

Yeah, I've never been a big fan of the term versimilitude, though its way better than "realism".  I prefer Emulation.

Quote from: RPGPundit;713026Yeah, I've never been a big fan of the term versimilitude, though its way better than "realism".  I prefer Emulation.

I prefer, Internal Consistency, when talking about a FANTASY RPG...  

Quote from: Arduin;713030I prefer, Internal Consistency, when talking about a FANTASY RPG...  

That's the term I would've used before being exposed to endless definitional discussions on this forum. Amongst people I play/have played with, there seems to be a consensus understanding of the meaning of this phrase.

Quote from: Bobloblah;713047That's the term I would've used before being exposed to endless definitional discussions on this forum. Amongst people I play/have played with, there seems to be a consensus understanding of the meaning of this phrase.

At least it is something that I might be able to accomplish as a GM.  The other 2 terms, probably not in this lifetime as a GM.