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I'm sorry, but to me this comes across as some weird persecution complex. No one in this thread has singled out dragonborn or even...

OK? No sure what relevance the popularity of dragonborn has on this discussion. Like, at all. I like dragonborn fine, and I know you do...

Why? D&D shares many similar features to those games. What makes them simulationist but d&d not? The answers thus far have been...

Well, not by me. I do not suspect misbehaviour from my players. All these conflicts you imagine, just do not happen. I have friends, I...

Because it is relatively popular game so a lot of people actually have some idea of how it plays. You apparently not among them. No...

Mate! You are the one who has been filling this thread with pages of hysterical rants about tyrannical straw GMs!

I disagree. I've been using D&D as a toolkit for many years, and every day just adds more tools to the box. My current game uses the...

I agree. This poll asked about the DM excluding things. https://www.enworld.org/threads/dm-imposed-restrictions-to-the-game.701956/...

I disagree then. Granted, D&D is a toolkit of far more limited in its scope than GURPS, but it is one nevertheless. It does not have...

Knowing what the thing simulated by the mechanic actually looks like in the imagined world is very far from "into the weeds". EDIT More...

What is? You think that a Regency romance game using GURPS must allow mechas or you don't?

That would indeed be simulationistic, if you used these things to derive odds of things related to them but often you don't. There are...

No. D&D is just a game system, which can be used to represent many different worlds. Not every world needs to include everything the...

So you are content to know that in D&D, attacks can miss due to the disadvantage imposed by their target dodging? Can you say how you...

But this is just about the level of detail. D&D AC does actually provide some information how it prevents attacks from hitting, it is...