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Thank you! Just to preempt some possible bad words. I think the hard FK hypothesis "is solid". I now realize that is a poor choice of...

Sometimes the awfulness is the exact reason for devising play that explores it. I'm thinking of Belong Outside Belonging RPGs that...

I would claim that it is always judgement and mechanics, in TTRPG. The only variation is as to where and how much.

Yeah. It seems pretty clear they just removed a math step when they made the armor table with the base ACs for armor. It was still base...

It's harder to encounter a corner case with rolling where the rule would need to be changed/ignored on the fly. While corner cases are...

Folks can argue whatever they like. But... "Yeah, I put together this amazing simulation of all the processes that tinfluence weather...

Just to chime in here on this entirely new topic... The idea of suspension of disbelief is that some baseline exists. It doesn't mean...

Agreed that "the proper ways" for this stuff are often not articulated. I'm don't understand the "enforced upon everyone else" part...

The argument may well be because the rules are silent on how to construct a "hit table" of this sort (this kind of thing is, ironically...

Here we are back to the context problem that was the entire point of my post. Are we talking about floating devices, or are we talking...

You claimed that play would inevitably be overtaken by "narrativium". I may have spotted the cause of the gap between our analyses...

It's a good question. Under the cognitive models framework, the rejection of W' itself (rather than a fact in W') as "unrealistic" must...

"Poor helpless kitten" my arse - that thing's the most dangerous monster in the room, if not the whole dungeon! :)

I'm speaking specifically about D&D there. I have no idea what went into Runequest or what level of simulation it achieves. Further...