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I think you may have misinterpreted what @TwoSix was saying. The point being made wasn't about in-game play involving deep...

I think that considering the why and how of what makes creative hobbies sing to us (or not) in service of understanding our opinions and...

I think you've misunderstood. @TwoSix didn't comment on play of any sort being better than another sort. It is in no way a comment that...

Like I said earlier, we're not really having a conversation in this thread most of the time because there is such a lack of common...

It's nothing to do with whether or not I like it. Sequentiality is not an abstraction of simultaneity. It's an alternative to it...

Oh please. TSR-era D&D was about as far from simulation as you could get. It was pure wargame. Good grief, your character can't even...

Not necessarily. The character might have fallen because magical pixies made him trip. He might have fallen because the rock face...

You insist this is true, but it doesn’t need to be. Yeah, that’s unnecessary. There’s no need to boot any players, and I’m in a...

It’s not an attack. But you can’t “not think about your play with deep introspection” and also be expected to be taken as seriously as...

It’s possible to read “simulation” from the inkblot that is modern D&D. But it’s an interpretation, at most.

But they're not necessary. That's the point!

This is the part that has always baffled me about the whole "I play D&D as sim" crowd. Why would you insist on playing a system that is...

Not sure. Gloomhaven manage to be pretty tense without character death being on the table at all.. Respawn mechanics is everywhere in...

If you accept hit points while wanting simulationist mechanics as a general principle, it makes it very hard for us, as outsiders to...

Challenge away.