Recent content by Micah Sweet

Maybe you don't like it because it breaks immersion for you?

But if it doesn't happen, and it's important to you that it does, then you're not going to enjoy that game much. If you're the GM, you're probably going to have a hard time running it.

Well...many of those things do annoy me. Maybe there's something to what you're saying here.

Yeah, in my experience many Actual Plays are so twisted up in providing an "entertaining" experience (so they can get all the clicks and that advertising $$, perhaps?) that they often barely even look like a real game.

I prefer when players make choices that make sense for their characters to make in the given situation within the setting, rather than chasing "story".

Probably not, unless it becomes clear that the most narratively appropriate things keep happening. But whether or not the players consciously notice stuff like that isn't necessarily the point.

Seems like more of Gygax putting on his salesman hat again, yeah.

As you say, a simulation doesn't have to simulate reality. However, in this case it seems to me that was the intent, and the GM, perhaps subjectively, saw the survival as a bad simulation of reality. Or, they were peeved at the player's stated knowledge that by the rules the fall couldn't kill...

And why I never claimed you were speaking any other way.

Certainly there are many more simulative systems, I agree. But it's not like Savage Worlds is a storygame.

If clean, simple gameplay in general and serving your player's wants and needs in specific are your primary goals (as this reads to me regarding your interests), pushing hard into sim may not be the best choice for you. But we all weight different aspects if the hobby differently.

But it still depicts characters with statistics representing something real in the setting, traveling through a world full of things also represented mechanically, so I wouldn't say there's as little sim as you suggest. I've read that game. Unless you're using rules different from Pinnacle...

Both awesome games I've played extensively.

Yes, I would say that. That motivation is anti-verisimilitudinous. Now, adding that dragon for a diagetic reason works, or if a previously undefined area is being defined (in the latter case via diagetic GM judgement or a diagetically-designed randomizer).

Modeling is important to my sense of simulation, but yeah eliminating narrative as a mechanical consideration is just as important, as part of my sense of verisimilitude.