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Which is why I prefer games with strong sim attitude towards play, because the moment in the middle of a game when I must suddenly rules...

I see simulation as an attempt to create a predictive model of a setting. This leads to some other assumptions: In the absence of...

If you want a real simulation of planet creation; look no further then Architect of Worlds...

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I went deep into this about 25 years ago doing tons of reading in the college library and downloading all the then latest simulation...

The weapon vs. armor table descends from a similar table in the Chainmail wargame. The funny thing is the simulation got totally...

Well, the point is definitely not to make realistic planets. My understanding is the planets are really only a few dozens of kilometers...

You can make up a lot of things on the spot as the GM and pass it off, especially if you're skilled. The players won't know if you fudge...

But it also isn’t trying to model anything either, other than making something planet-like. There’s a difference between a computer...

In specific, perhaps not from this exact thing (though maybe, depending how a GM presents things). In aggregate, yes absolutely: the...

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

Or maybe I've been the forever GM most of my life hearing horror stories like this about the abuse players have had to endure at other...

Simulation is what we are trying to achieve. Abstraction is the thing like assuming we can simulate an airplane well enough for these...

I think this is wrong because the motivation (as far as we know) for Gygax was to model something, not create a useful or fun gameplay...

I think that is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of simulation and of heroism in the context of D&D. The big misunderstanding...