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That wont work for me because I want the adventure day attrition model. More importantly, I want those resources in the hands of the...

You can't design anywhere near an entire game by consultation and the 70% mark. It's inevitable that you will get individual things...

Its a complicated answer. I think folks have moved from old school survival sim where death is just a likely outcome of any particular...

Right. A good test of whether something is simulationistic is to see whether it makes sense for the people in the setting discuss about...

Ars Magica spell durations such as ‘sun’ (spell expires at sunrise or sunset) would be a simulationist mechanism from my perspective as...

I'm not saying my preference I'm saying: boss monsters die too easily: But You can't nerf spell power You can't nerf spell quantity...

5e mechanics are easier to handle and OP characters are less OP. But actual guidance is pretty crap and was much better in previous...

Right. A lot of players will just happily vote for more power for their characters. And I am not sure this necessarily makes them...

Evidence flatly contradicts this and demonstrates the Way design sets up the gm for failure. PCs and wildly overpowered by expectations...

That's a distinction without value though and was my reason for being explicit that nearly every game is going to be one GM and multiple...

I mean, per Jeremy Crawford some tike ago, the people filling out the surveys (and playing the game in general) had started with 5E. If...

I've found 5e much more DM friendly than 3e. Specifically, DMing 3e to high level (tier 4) became a difficult slog for me. I've found...

I rather feel "heal from anything by good night's sleep" is a rather poor simulationist mechanic except perhaps in a superhero game...

A ‘game day’ is by nature a game construct, not a world construct. That makes it a ‘gamist mechanism’ rather than a ‘simulationist...

I don't think so. The 6-8 encounter guideline is more about game balance than simulation - if you don't have a stack of encounters, you...