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I have long advocated for the DMG (and possibly the PHB too) to include, rather than the infuriating "true exotics" blather and...

As much as I would love to recommend Wandering Inn to people, I can't, simply because it's much too big of a series to recommend to all...

Even as GM I don't change the fiction on the fly to help the characters. Once the session starts the fiction is fixed. I don't care if...

Fighting the orc is abstracted. It isn't disconnected from the in-universe fiction.

This obviously is not true. Causality is completely different in these cases. If the character attacks an orc and the orc dies from it...

But what the mechanics do, is cause the player's conjecture to be right. That is not what happens in the fiction, and that's why there...

Even real world simulations like galaxy formation rely on numbers they just plug in for things like dark matter and dark energy. Do...

Sounds good. You know drama and narrative appropriateness are not what I consider a priority for GMs. Let the players generate drama I say.

I think the premise I am stumbling upon is number 4. I would think I have heard somewhere (the proposal that) that willingness to put...

It is mind-numbingly cumbersome and overtly detailed spreadsheet hell with zero considerations for drama or narrative appropriateness...

I think it was a mistake to allow finesse to fully substitute strength with dex. It should have been so that it only does so for to hit...

I'd say the answer to "What does a simulation do?" is more like "It models, as best as it can, how something would happen were it...

Certainly, in that group who made those beforehand agreements. But I am speaking across all groups, and from testimony in this thread it...

Perhaps this might happen to some degree, but also I think most of this could and perhaps should be agreed upon beforehand and then...

When a real-world archaeologist walks into a chamber that has some runes on the wall those runes already say something, and what they...