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I think this is troublesome because you are treating "The GM controls the world, the player controls the PC" as an absolute with clear...

Holy failed assumptions Batman! Just because we don't use fail forward, does not mean that we want the PCs' lives to be boring. Those...

Seems a little nitpicky to me. Is the 100% sim straw man going back into battle once more?

So, "prep situations, not plots" is basically born from the same desire as sandbox play: namely, wanting to avoid railroading and...

We've talked a lot about simulationism. But really I think it grates on me the most from the gamist perspective. If I as a player can...

There is a massive difference. If I call to confirm a reservation and they make up a different time, for example. It seems to the view...

The player is not authoring it through the character, though. The player is authoring it outside of the game and then afterwards...

That's probably because they aren't the same. How many times do we have to say that there's a difference between the DM rolling in...

The cook only exists because of a failed roll that has no diegetic reason. I'm not going to argue about it any more. It's pointless...

No, I'm stating a pretty well known part of writing. You can't have a piece be all something all the time. To quote Asimov, "you can't...

Princess is by default a gendered term, and more specifically, it conjures up images of very pink damsels in distress: girls whose...

The comment you were replying to says: This doesn't just encompass a change from A --> B; i.e., the runes were a guacamole recipe, and...

Don't want to move too fast, but reread Faolyn's post, especially the bold. She doesn't see the interpretation as silly because it is...

I can understand that for some games any test or roll is a bigger event, but in a D&D or similar game? Rolling and narrating what...

While this is true, don't forget that @pemerton said that he put them there because it would be fun and interesting, but otherwise...