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Better explanation than mine. If the player is spending meta-game points* to get what they want with associated risks, that's not a...

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...

Again, you're missing the point and I doubt you will ever accept what I say at face value. So let me try a slightly different...

I think the core fault line is whether one wants to try to correlate the player decision space with the character decision space or not...

No one at WOTC is going to read this thread and pay any attention to what we're saying. Meanwhile the game can't be everything for...

If they don't accept it then they need to either accept the limitations of the game or find a different game because they want something...

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

I’m not sure if you or I am misunderstanding here, but there’s quite a bit of denial that such a difference even exists. Hard to have...

Causality relation in the mechanics might be the same, but player input is different. This causes there to be a different causality...

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...

Mod Note: Your rhetoric here is hyperbolic, and not acceptable. This is a discussion on a messageboard. Nobody is getting "driven out...

What is happening that there is a die roll that determines whether the thing succeeded or failed followed by description of the event of...

You break the sim by drawing acausal odds from stats that supposedly measure diegetic things.

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