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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..But that wasn’t what was said. Location and the like. Not full context, but enough to make an educated guess. But either way… experts... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Sure… but this description is true of many, many games. I never said anything about their hopes. You said you don’t think an expert in...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..While I agree with you that most of the time, it’s very easy to determine if something is diegetic or not in an RPG, there are instances...
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hawkeyefan reacted to chaochou's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Simulation is simply fake cover for 'GM says' which facilitates railroady GMs to appeal to their own authority. It's a doublethink... -
hawkeyefan reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I guess I just feel like if something "is diegetic"--even "is diegetical"--then we should all agree it is so. It should not be, "Well...
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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.
Aren't they? Do you say this based on your own expert knowledge of runes in dungeons? Eg do you not think an archaeologist might be...
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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.
Sorry, but, I don't find, "Make anything up after the fact" to be a particularly useful definition of simulation. 🤷
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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.
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...