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Really? You know that? How, exactly? Since I've never posted anything more than brief, extremely summed-up descriptions of any game I've...

I was using it as an example of how that poster's suggestion would work in practice, if applied to the case we all had been discussing...

Look the post I was responding to. "Why is it such a problem for a system to integrate narrative concepts? Those could just be...

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...

Look, I keep asking questions. Rather than say something like, "this question is wrong and it actually works like XYZ," he only says...

Let’s look at a mechanic without a randomizer for it occurring. Say falling damage in d&d. If you fall the proper distance it just...

I don't know the specifics of what those do, so all I can do is go by the words used as words have meaning. Solitary Traveler is one...

You don't need to terminate the design intent, but that's where I terminate the definition of word "simulation." I you want to have a...

Not sure I quite understand what you mean. "Played experience" immersion etc, is very subjective. I don't think that has bearing on...

Yes, but genres almost always contain things that are not diegetic to the world.

At that point wouldn’t a world in which genre was the world truth, wouldn’t simulating those genre elements through process be...

I hereby declare the two previously posted mechanics the entirety of my new "game". I call it "The diegetic dumpster fire" (TDDF). I am...

Then no world with magic, dragons and wizards can be a simulation?

But using conjecture even more highlights the difference between d&d and the runes because we can easily spot the differences from...

I’m not sure I understand the difference?