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Do you truly not understand that when someone is talking about the differences between two styles of play that he isn't saying there's...

I have done a lot of cumulative prep over time on my homebrew campaigns, so my prep as far as the world can be pretty minimal for a...

All of this arguing comes down to 2 fairly different approaches. I prefer a more simulationist approach as explained in...

As GM I want my players to succeed most of the time. They won't succeed 100% of the time at everything they try. As GM I want to...

In "new-simulationism" setting design precedes abstraction design. Outside of play when the abstractions are formed an earnest attempt...

The same sound occurs whether successful or failure. If one alerts the cook, the other should as well. This is one of the major...

This misses the point of the example. I thought everyone at this point was aware that the problem situation at hand require the cook to...

"Are your parents rolling skill checks here? If not, don't be ridiculous. We're talking about causal events in the context of the game."

Because it isn't the same situation. The cook wasn't always in the kitchen, or she would be there even if the roll is successful. The...

Not really, in that downstream connections can often only be observed in hindsight; and we're playing in the here-and-now. Sure...

I am so not going to ask my parents about how well they performed.

Adding details that don't contradict established lore is par for the course It's also vastly different from "A guard shows up because...

What? There exists the remote possibility that this is a crazy person tackling me because I'm there and not because I punched out. I am...

I don't really agree with that. If a player wants a PC of some new race that I have no problem with and probably would exist somewhere...

The only reason the guard approached was because you failed the test. Had you succeeded the guard would not have approached. There was...