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I can hope that the junk email I receive really is going to reward me with a million dollars if I click the link but it's probably not...

The success or failure of an action is determined by whether or not the D20 rolled by the player plus the modifiers to that roll meet or...

Hold my beer!

I thought I’d jump off here. Perhaps the elements I most consider ‘good sim’ or essential for sim from an rpg perspective aren’t...

And that is what I was talking about being irritating. I experienced this long ago in the dissociative mechanics threads during 4e. It...

Sure that’s what I was getting at. I think that what elements make for ‘good sim’ depends on what you want to simulate. I think it...

This is my issue as well. Different games work differently? I'm glad, life would be boring if everything was the same. Saying that...

I mean yeah, you'd think. But every time someone says that "personally I don't like a narrative game due this difference" then certain...

To be fair there are probably alot of simulation elements in those games. I don’t dispute that. What I say is that if this kind of...

Yes there is. But the player deciding what their character hoped, made that decision based on information that the mechanics can make...

But there's a big difference between final authority and referee. That's the basic assumption of the game as spelled out in the books...

The inevitable result that you don’t agree. Maxperson won’t change his ways, and neither will you. That’s all. No need to play this up...