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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Remove all references to reality and we are close. A simulator is a model with a time/progression component. The most common thing to attempt to model is reality. But there are other things that can be modeled as well. For instance one my unfulfilled goals of my master thesis was to try to...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    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 certain common principles and rules in force for oneself is more or less the definition of entering a game. That is if there is a difference here, the players...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    And noone told me! Are you saying that all those wonderfully moments I had, witnessing the cool ideas my players came up with unfold in my simulation, was us playing the game wrong? :oops:
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I thought it seem like you and @clearstream agree in this regard? You are just elaborating on different ways this can be lost. Clearstream seem to caution against fragmentation in the meaning of the word while you seem to be cautioning against that a proposed meaning of the word could allow for...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I am a bit confused about this. When I have been doing simulations, the how things act is generally coded into the simulation, the purpose of the simulation has typically been to see what will happen, and any why-s are left to the philosophers? Edit: What you seem to describe is deduction or...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Not a legitimisation. A description. D&D has a staggering number of explicit options. Also trying to run it based on only what is written would reveal it as an utterly incomplete and unplayable mess. I would claim it absolutely relly on the GM and the group to impose some structure not...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I think my answer to @EzekielRaiden touched on this, but in a bit shallow level. I think this asks the relevant question so sharply it warrants a bit more investigation. The problem posed is that even given all the constraints the narration and principles ensuring a mechanics to be...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    This one is on one hand similar to the input side, but has a subtlety on the output side that I will further address bellow. On the input side I have already pointed out how a corrupt referee can make an otherwise diegetic rule non-diegetic by letting their own preferences intefer. This in a...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    It is possible to recognise common properties of even infinite sets based on how they are defined. For instance I feel confortable claiming that all primes, except the number two, are odd. It wouldn't be reasonable to contest this simply based on the observation that as there are an infinite...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Just wanted to provide a bit more mathematical perspective on this. Even if you have still more options than what you'd care to enumerate, doesn't mean that the set of options might not be smaller than a different set that has even more options than what you care to enumerate. It is true that...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Yes, your wish came true. But for you to claim your hope was hence accurate seem to me like a bizzare use of the word "accurate". You seem to fail to engage with my point about the distinction between hope and conjecture. You are rather further mudeling the water by seemingly trying to set up...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Aaaaargh! I was trying to figure out how to mark the randomiser as optional, failed to find a good language construct to do so, and went on hoping noone would bring up a misreading like this. I was even worried soneone would push me into some bizzare tangent regarding if a trivial randomiser...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Ah, thank you for reminding me! As I really like your suggestion regarding simulationistic experiences, I would rather have that as the defining trait of "simulationistic" play. This make the suggested connection between "diegetic" mechanics and simulationistic play not one of definition, but...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I assume you mean "diegetic", as I have not tried to define the word "simulationistic" regarding rules. It might be they can be used interchangeably, but I am not certain given this thread :P.. As far as I can see this rule appears "diegetic" as written. Pay in particular attention that the...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I think the scope of game text is covered to the degree I am comfortable with in the line above. I agree "dominating" is not well defined, but I wanted to not dive into the details of these secondary terms before at least getting some feedback on the sanity of this approach to diegetic...
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