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How so? If anything, it should let players be more immersed in the fiction, because they have a part in making it. The fiction isn't...

I never said this applies to you. I said it’s something I’ve observed. You continue to read things into my posts that are not there...

Touchy much? I never said anyone is childish except some hypothetical person who can't play with others. And I am going by a metric...

I see other people have already pointed this out, so I apologise if this feels like dogpiling, but this is misrepresenting what...

Not having an agenda of make the player characters' lives not boring is not the same as having an agenda of making the player...

Dude attempts to pick lock and fails. How much time did that attempt take? Do you inform the player beforehand how much time it is going...

Here's another well-known game procedure: the Gm asks the player something about the world, and the player answers. I expect that...

Here is my perspective on this: I have done a lot of pretty hardcore simulationist RPGing. Mostly using RoleMaster, but also using...

Again, you are equating It is not the case that I have an agenda of making the characters' lives not boring with I have an agenda of...

But realism, verisimilitude, etc. are the literal, explicit words used to describe this. Over and over and over and over. That it is not...

The reason why the lock pick attempt might be louder on a failed roll is very simple; it’s because one way to fail at lockpicking would...

..... Max, you're still doing it. You are still asserting that someone is saying "OH SO YOU WANT THINGS TO BE BORING???" when they...

I mean, it's not just him. The thread at large has consistently treated it as such; the GM does not touch the character in any way, it...

No, there’s plenty of legacy elements of D&D I like just fine. But there are parts of the game that have changed, and parts that have...

This I can certainly grant. A lot of GMs--I'd say at least a third--genuinely either don't realize or don't care that their actions...