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The proposed solution feels like trying to replicate personal shields that show up in sci-fi. Except those make sense because they...

Agreed. I regularly tweak the rules of my version of D&D to make feel like a better simulation to me.

I’ve hit my thumb with a hammer often enough. Those nails must have a lot of stamina to keep dodging like that. They don’t let me use...

One of the issues I see is that if you have high quality armor, it's difficult to significantly damage. Most blows that do damage are...

I don't care for the idea myself - it it ain't broke, and all that - but why not try it and see if you like it better? I do think it...

You are trying to support your point by referencing the words of a prominent figure in the hobby whose stated views in this circumstance...

From discussion here and elsewhere, simulationism seems to label game play characterised by i) giving the imagined world precedence and...

but when the failure option presented wasn't 'the cook heard you and woke up' but 'the cook just so happened to be in the kitchen at...

Ok, we are just repeating ourselves at that point. If you have anything precise to say about the specific examples above, then I would...

the point is competent people 'make their own luck' by making different choices and taking different actions which have better odds of...

competent people who 'make their own luck' still can't control the universe

So you think people in the real world affect the world around them through competence and not just by what they say and do?

No. I don't. You can't make me use someone else's methods. I'm not sure why you are even trying. I don't retroactively create valleys...

Every game has abstractions. Simulations do not recreate complex systems with 100% accuracy, a supercomputer could not perfectly model...

i think this is part of the issue in the conversation, common-use word meanings are getting confused with the jargon-uses.