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Better explanation than mine. If the player is spending meta-game points* to get what they want with associated risks, that's not a...

Again, you're missing the point and I doubt you will ever accept what I say at face value. So let me try a slightly different...

I thought I’d jump off here. Perhaps the elements I most consider ‘good sim’ or essential for sim from an rpg perspective aren’t...

Are you saying it’s not happening at all or that the amount @Crimson Longinus suggested it’s occurring was hyperbolic?

If they don't accept it then they need to either accept the limitations of the game or find a different game because they want something...

And that is what I was talking about being irritating. I experienced this long ago in the dissociative mechanics threads during 4e. It...

Sure that’s what I was getting at. I think that what elements make for ‘good sim’ depends on what you want to simulate. I think it...

I mean yeah, you'd think. But every time someone says that "personally I don't like a narrative game due this difference" then certain...

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...