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Yes, I am well aware of that. You seem to have forgotten early when you were defining an encounter as: Which was as unworkable as...

Since D&D and specifically 4e has come up, it’s designers have specifically said it’s not simulationist. That was very much part of the...

Does its battery recharge when you move from room to room? Because that’s what ‘encounter based powers’ do.

First, no game is 100% any style of game, that was the main error of the Forge IMO - that they wanted games to be pretty much one thing...

You are missing my point. Your position was that encounter based duration was simulationist. My point is that there is nothing which a...

And when does that happen? Could it be:

So how long does it last then? What are the parameters? Where is that described in the rule book? If it’s a simulation you can explain...

When does a fight end? What if one combatant runs away and hides? Is it over? What if they sneak around and attack the party...

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

Count me among those that believe that while all "social hobbies" are likely good, TTRPGs are special because they ask is to share our...

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

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

I hear what people are saying about any hobby being potentially beneficial. I think TTRPGs have a more unusual benefit of being a...

In my gaming group I have one friend of about 43 years, and two of 39 years. So I would definitely say TTRPGs help support friendships...

It hasn’t finished cooking yet but The Broken Empires will be a new ’sim-lite’ RPG when it arrives. This is a new system which aims to...