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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...

The damage caused by a Mind Flayer still exists, only it's internal and thus not visible to an observer. The damage caused by a Red...

DnD spellcasting is also another reason why Lore is so commonly ignored, the Weave just doesn't matter to the usage of spells or to...

To expand on this a bit - and to (gasp!) bring it back toward the thread topic - setting lore is far more likely to matter to the...

"Simulation" does not necessarily have to map to our reality. Some people even think it meshes okay with genre emulation, but I...

I was literally cracking a joke dude. I know you really enjoy showing up in threads and staking out your personal preference position...

"This is only a problem for some people" hardly flips the criticism on its head.

"Collaborative storytelling" is not the core goal of roleplaying for everyone. Stories will emerge after the fact, even if you don't...

For lore to matter, it must affect players' decision making. Which means that the decisions made must be different from what they would...

For me (trying to explain my own insanity here, lol) , and this is just my own thoughts of why Forgotten Realms/Golarion very much made...

Thank you for this explanation. To help explain to you some of the pushback you are receiving, I'll state that you've stumbled into a...

If you think that the differences races of Tolkien's world are just humans with some minor physical appearance differences, i would...

simulation to me is...trying to give everything enough of it's own set of rules to minimize the amount of times where you need to ask...

it 'works' but there's certainly a group who is not happy about how it is working.

Which is what several of us have been saying all along: square one works, there is no point in a new setting.