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hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Sorry, but, I don't find, "Make anything up after the fact" to be a particularly useful definition of simulation. 🤷 -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The players already know how the resolution system works. They've played the game, they know the rules. It's not kept secret from them.
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is one meaning of "simulation" in RPGing. It's not the only one: see eg @clearstream's posts in this thread. It's not the meaning...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's not just about degenerate results. It's about audience response. Contrast the following two scenes: In a Superman movie, a baddie...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is interesting. I think your example has a larger delta between the thing itself and the representation of it, but the switch in...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Some mechanical elements are, or at least are intended to be, representational: eg D&D stats; Burning Wheel skill ratings; and the like...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I want to say - tentatively, perhaps - that the analogue of this in a RPG would be the GM drawing a sketch of what the PCs can see. Or...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think, according to Cavegirl's definitions/usage, that would be more diegetic. For me, I think it still runs into some of the same...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If it can be simulationist for Wolverine's player to declare I met this person in the past, why can't it be simulationist for a...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..They are the person who introduced the term to RPG analysis. Though as I already said, I don’t think their ideas are without flaw, I...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't find her arguments completely compelling, but I don't think that's her intention. She's arguing that the numerical...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, the character is not experiencing both. The character explicitly does not experience non-diegetic things. Saying they do makes the...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Right, it's mostly used for sound, but it can be applied to other aspects of film, too (I think it's most useful for sound). I think...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Hang on though. IN order to have a "highly detailed situation", you would need to do lots of preparation, no? I've been told...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I wasn't talking about the film Arachnophobia, though. I was talking about a GM having prepped their material, and their prep doesn't...