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I would say exactly the same for sim play with highly dynamic content :)

I just realised: If you take Talisman, and remove the inner circle+gate. Would that pass your test for being an RPG? Play time is...

So I am not quite sure we understand "incomplete" in the same way. I think it is a salient feature of RPGs that you can try to do...

Edit: I think I got the wrong context. Never mind.

I’ve never seen a game handle improvised weapons and objects particularly well. Do you have some specific rules in mind you feel are...

That seem too easy. You surely not saying that the players author the entire world by asking the GM to run a game for them? In this...

Well, TTRPGs have a long tradition of having key play being structured. Early D&D could be played as a pure mechanical dungeon crawler...

I don't think we disagree then. However I would point out that "game" has a lot of overloaded meanings. When I talk about game in this...

I think I see where you are coming from. However I struggle to see how to avoid negotiation in TTRPG in a good way. I think this might...

I should clarify that I'm saying if negotiation is a normative process of resolution (what is the possible impact of any given check...

Interesting! I actually have somewhat opposite preference regarding characters (though weak). I tend to like "avatar" type characters...

No. You cannot rewrite reality (our reality) and make words say things they don't. If a player chooses to author some fiction, that is...

I once ran an about 10 session D&D campaign where I cannot remember invoking that mini game once :) There might have been a close call...

Do they? Or is it indeed the GM that listens to player input, and from that migrate fictional possibilities into actualities? The...

Also why I bristle when someone suggests that the rest of the game should be structured more like the combat, wanting some tactical...