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Well yes clearly. See again Earthdawn. I've been in this situation though (a long time ago) with D&D The NPC had a crossbow pointed...

To be fair, if there's a diagetic reason the character doesn't fear crossbows then it absolutely is a sim agenda. For other uses, I...

Or you could address me about my post. And not hold people who like an overarching point as responsible for explaining my lack of...

How is that not about hit points? Your examples are predicated on how hit points work.

That’s fair. Then I think we agree.

And yet no one suggests the simulations are perfect. I can see how that would be a ‘problem’ if they did. But they don’t, so?

I have to think about this a bit more, but it strikes me that play focused on elevating one aspect of these five over the others (while...

Point. I prefer damage reduction personally. But to be fair most of my sim work for RPGs is for outside combat anyway, because my...

Two things. 1) I wasn’t responding to your post. 2) I don’t see a heck of alot of difference in those things. Summing them both up as...

I think this ignores the inherent ongoing social convergence and expertise expansion that occurs in a prolonged campaign over multiple...

Yea. That would be the difference. I think one can have a subconscious agenda so no forethought is needed.

I think it depends on what one believes hp represent and/or if the dm has provided some narration that overrides that representation...

Do you agree it’s not a primary agenda?

Even then, what specifically they find fun is going to form an agenda, unless they find all things equally fun which would be a bit odd...

I would say this. I think players can definitely have implicit agendas that map to their general preferences, but I definitely think a...