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If you are treating a 6-ft elementally charged dragon person like a human, you are doing so out of ease or ignorance. It's not out of...

Well that's the rules. A halfling can take a dragon claw with enough HP. We could force all misses from large creatures to force...

Untrue. That's just an excuse to only deal with one species majority for ease.

i personally like halflings as they are, i wouldn't want to see them merged with something else for the sake of consolidating unpopular...

i feel like all characters, PC or NPC ought to start out with like, 12~HP and that should be the baseline for truly 'defence bypassing'...

To make it work, certain attacks need to be able to bypass hit points and go direct to some other effect. Example: slitting the throat...

“We demand a new thing. But it must be exactly the same as the old thing.”

Okay, so I am going to be picky about language. While I think I get what you mean, I want to put focus on something here. Does a...

With respect, I feel like you really want to point at pretty trivial elements, and say, "Hey, look! It's simulation!" Yes, there's...

To me simulationism means that any actions are adjudicated based on what would reasonably happen in a setting. This can be done via...

I think it's a little deeper than that. A lot of the support for simulationism comes with the attached idea of "I want to feel like...

The value I personally see in that is not because it feels more like reality, but so that players never wonder if there was a finger...

Somewhat. But, it doesn't have to be our real world. For examples, I can bring up much of the fiction of Robert L Forward - a...

The same could be true in simulation of reality, not just a genre simulation. Here's an example to demonstrate the difference between...

So, just to demonstrate a half-agreement: I think good simulation does reduce what you're calling "narrative contrivance". Indeed...