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I’m not sure if you or I am misunderstanding here, but there’s quite a bit of denial that such a difference even exists. Hard to have...

Causality relation in the mechanics might be the same, but player input is different. This causes there to be a different causality...

D&D is a bit of a moving target. Do you mean d&d played as a simulation, if so then I’d disagree. Do you mean d&d played in one of the...

To be fair there are probably alot of simulation elements in those games. I don’t dispute that. What I say is that if this kind of...

You break the sim by drawing acausal odds from stats that supposedly measure diegetic things.

In some cases my players have said "I try to...." That isn't necessary because it is implied either way and not everyone says that all...

There are a lot of people here making various claims about various ways of describing games and whew this thread has ran a lot of pages...

I will note in d&d players don’t say ‘I kill the orc as an action’. They may say ‘I attack the orc’ or the dm may say they kill the orc...

"I jump the gap", "I climb the tower", "I kill the goblin" is all action declarations according to 2. None of them makes the thing...

You just need to find some runes and hope they indicate an exit ;)

I like this example. With a trapdoor, you already know its function. Your roll is to utilise its function. With the runes, you do not...

That's not what I said. The context of what I said was that it MUST fit within both what the mechanics tell us AND the prior narrative...

I think the issue here is the following: Either it was a move that was done fully according to the rules of the game with approperiate...

I'll just echo this. I know people who dive into fitness stuff head first and try to do everything "right." It doesn't take long to...

Is this "buckets of sim" like the mechanic you showed earlier and claimed was sim, that was virtually identical to the D&D mechanic that...