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Reading through all of these and the same themes and arguments keep coming up, retreads from the "Are you running a sandbox". Arbitrary...

Does any game tell you why someone falls off a cliff? How does it do so? How could it? Simulationism is about how we approach cause...

Eliminating stop motion combat would be my focus for realism. For human fighter vs human fighter conflicts I think ac is simple and...

Body armor exists for the inevitability of getting hit, stabbed, shot, whatever. More importantly, it is designed with expectations in...

I don’t get the whole non-expert criticism. Assuming someone is incompetent but consistent then at worst we have an inaccurate...

Yes, this is the common counter - and there has never been possible to reach an agreement on where the limit for sufficient competency...

First, it doesn't just tell you that you fell down. It also tells you how far you fell down. To have fallen X distance, you had to be...

My proposal, a broad category that lumps together all RPG’s that use simulation as if the use of simulation is a play agenda unto itself...

Exactly what I thought.

Obviously. Do you have a broader point?

I am unsure what you are referring to here

How can you evaluate a spesific game in a truely context free case? The game under evaluation seem to be context? This thread have...

Is there any reason someone couldn't just say "I prefer to resolve skills checks in a simulationist matter" regardless of what they...

Although in this respect one can argue narrative and sandbox games are the same, as ideally once play gets going in a sandbox game the...

Here is what I find funny (and I haven't read all the posts, but just a post here and there) Ron Edwards does this deep theory crafting...