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This seems insufficient. You could as easily port that understanding to any board game that involves dice in resolution; the point is...

Did you not read any of my posts in which I said that this is not a game about solving puzzles or overcoming GM-authored challenges so...

The paramount question is ‘how are they wanting to overcome said obstacle’. In the runes example the player must decide what he wants to...

Turns out, different participants have different roles.

l I’m confused here. The runes don’t have dynamic features?

I think that's probably the wrong axis for that question. The relevant point is the nature of the action; in case B the relative impact...

Are we going to make any real attempt to get at why some mechanics cause a backlash and others don't? It looked like for a moment we...

Then we're missing steps. Perhaps whatever the "simulation" (probably the wrong term, but we're stuck here) thing is we're taking about...

I think the core fault line is whether one wants to try to correlate the player decision space with the character decision space or not...

Well, If someone claim they don't like narrative games due to this difference: (Go on to claim something noone likes, and that is not...

I think the problem in the cleric example is - do the cleric have remove curse memorized? I myself would likely have tried to determine...

The example shows that there are parallels between determining what the runes could indicate, and determining what an NPC does. It...

Would it be the same game if the player(s) is leaving?

I like this take. However I find the features I consider important do not really align much with these at all. I can like board games...

Sure that’s what I was getting at. I think that what elements make for ‘good sim’ depends on what you want to simulate. I think it...