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Heh. How to say you've never looked at solo RPG's without saying you've never looked at solo RPG's.

I 100% agree with you. For an RPG, working is very much in fact enough. However, for a SIMULATION RPG, it is not. That's the key...

Except that can NEVER be the answer. The player is forbidden to add anything to the game world. So, while the character knows the...

I'm hard pressed to see why "I'd like to set up some elements of my home village" reduces agency in a meaningful way.

Wow. Really? I LOVE it when the players do that. Heck, my players do it all the time. It's fantastic. It means they do all the work...

I'd much rather, in a simulationist leaning game, that the DM's narration was actually connected to the fiction of the game than...

To be fair, it depends on a lot of factors. How long is your ship, for example? Depending on how fast you are accelerating, different...

A good rule of thumb for writing SF is that you are allowed one "gimme" IOW, the writer is allowed to break science without having to...

As best I can tell, @Hussar is relying on widespread consensus that RuneQuest, Rolemaster, Chivalry & Sorcery, HERO, GURPS and the like...

Yep. Indeed, FTL is hardly the only subject where that applies. The question one needs to ask oneself is there, "If I cannot write...

That's not circular. That's how all definitions are derived. Find a group of shared concepts, give it a name and that's the definition...

When one is doing a math test, one is doing science. Being able to show your work is the basic, fundamental principle of maths or sciences.

The speed of light is very much NOT relative to the observer. The speed of light is a universal constant. That's the POINT of the...

"Personal requirements"? That's a bit rich. I mean, saying that a simulationist system should actually simulate something shouldn't be...

sorry, I just picked the easiest examples off the top of my head. My list certainly wasn't meant to be exhaustive. When I have time, I...