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I got asked if I thought simulation doesn't exist in RPG's. And it did remind me that I have tried to drift D&D into sim territory in...

"Poor helpless kitten" my arse - that thing's the most dangerous monster in the room, if not the whole dungeon! :)

I learned today I was on someone's ignore list and I have no idea who they are.

When hobby games distributors Wizards Attic and then Osseum went under in short succession in the early 2000s, burning their clients and...

No. All it needs is some sort of connection directly linking the mechanics to the narrative. Doesn't have to be realistic. Doesn't...

While yes, D&D should include rules for this (even if only as "optional rules"), it's not hard to actually houserule it. Combat--miss...

Really? Success is always a good performance? Or could it simply be the audience is more receptive? Or could it be other factors? Is...

See, now this I agree would be the mechanics providing a tiny kernel of information to guide the narrative. Makes my simulationist...

I don't think this is really consistent with a simulationist approach, is it? Or the idea that we should avoid abstractions that are at...

Sorry, clicked respond on the first part without reading the rest, but, this point needs addressing? In what way would you possibly...

Again, ANY. Any information. Not all, not every, but, at the very least, ANY information. And no, it is not hard to see. There are...

Sigh. Again, for the umpteenth time. A game becomes simulative when it provides ANY actual information about how a result was...

I would cut the quote here, as this is the argument I think is strong in the post (the rest seem to be rehashing things already picked...

That's only half of the issue though isn't it? You still have the player knowing that according to the rules of the game jumping off...

/edit to add BTW, @clearstream - the way you narrated the falling damage is exactly the same way I would do it. Totally fine. But...