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The thing you quoted said nothing about your views. It said that the game under discussion--D&D--is not a very good simulationist game...

The thread up to this point has made it pretty clear that "quantum" is the enemy, whatever form it might take. But even if we grant...

This is especially important, if we're actually looking at how play works. It's obvious that many elements of the fiction, which must...

I understand "independent of the player". That's why I call the RPGing "GM-driven" or "GM-centred". I assert that, if the trigger for...

This makes no difference as to whether it is "quantum". Unless "quantum" now just means what some posters don't like.

I could be here (and am) or could be elsewhere (but am not), so am both here and not there? That doesn't make sense to me. I also don't...

Indeed, this would seem to be precisely the opposite of "resembling reality" or "having the semblance of truth". Because good things...

So it would be more realistic if bad things happened whether competent or incompetent people took the lead? That doesn't make much sense...

Well, at least for me? This was the thing people hammered home, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and... They...

Incidentally people who have seen the internal numbers at both companies claim Pathfinder never outsold 4e...

Ooh, so it's super vulnerable to things like Simpson's "paradox". That is, the situation where treatment A does better with low-severity...

Had they even an inkling that they had done so, don't you think they'd have touted it? They wouldn't even need to say they actually...

I mean, they pretty clearly didn't even try to do anything more than "Legally Distinct TTRPG That Totally Isn't 3.5e ᵇᵘᵗ ᶦᵗ'ˢ...

Calm down. The issues with basing such a claim on ICv2’s rankings have been pointed out before. Pathfinder did not outsell D&D.

Okay. As is rather often the case, your experience has...some pretty dramatic differences from mine, to the point that your examples...