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Here are contemporary trends that I see in terms of modern approaches to TTRPG mechanics: Fiction First Gaming: this was something of a...

There's a warning about that... There's an undercurrent in AW, it's more explicit in DitV... "Every moment of play, roll dice or say...

I'm sorry, but this is why the 'dead horse' of hit points keeps being brought up. Because the assertion that the rules of D&D serve only...

I didn’t say the GM was mechanics. I said that the way in which you’ve described the GM, I wouldn’t expect resistance from you about the...

I’m trying to maybe narrow in on the difference. Not saying they do exactly the same thing… but there are similarities, and mechanics...

If I’m running players through Tomb of Annihilation, I’m not really playing to find out what happens. Sure, there are some areas of...

You don’t think that your description of what the GM does is helping to drive the game? And do you not agree that the rules may do so...

Watchmen.

An addendum to the above post: upthread someone talked about sim vs "gamism" in the context of classic Gygaxian D&D. For the game to...

I don't understand why. AW has a rule for resolving any declared action. It actually is broader, in that respect, than any version of...

You seem to think that resolving a player's move, in AW, is profoundly different from resolving a player's declared action, in D&D. I...

My view of sim play is mixed. I think the idea of relying on mechanics to specify outcomes of declared actions, by...

I'll bite. How do XP facilitate playing to find out what happens?

Well, as noted, trad games tend to have a lot more tolerance for the GM putting their thumb on the scale. In theory at least, if a set...

"Play to find out" in the way Vincent laid out obviously does not consider how a D&D GM prepares because it's not meant to describe D&D...