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Not really. That's not the point of the Jenga tower. The point of the Jenga tower is to ramp up the horror factor by ramping up the...

Only if you treat the context of the game as an interchangeable slot to put the widget in. Not everyone is running campaigns with 20...

I agree. I really do. The mechanics are perfectly functional and fine. I use them all the time. But, the problem is, we're trying to...

Sorry, but going to separate this one out. Where it's useful is in actually creating a taxonomy for discussing a game. If a DM says...

So, by this definition, simulation has nothing to do with the system. It's mostly due to the person running that system? Is that a...

The only point where I think we might have differed is in some of the subtleties raised by @Don Durito, especially around skill systems...

Why do I need to? His blog is saying EXACTLY the same thing I'm saying. Again, what do you think diegetic means? And, again, provide...

Ummm... I'm confused. @pemerton, in that link you provided, was pointing to how he agreed with my points. You keep pointing to these...

Really? The rope breaking or the cliff face crumbling is due to my skill? That's an interesting take. See, you've added in all this...

You absolutely do gain some information about how a result was achieved in a video game. You can see the path of the bullet as it hits...

Well, now there's improvement at least. We've gone from "D&D is a great simultationist game" to "it qualifies as a sim, but, just...

I'm sorry, but, "strict"? Seriously? Asking that a simultionist system provide any information about how the result was achieved is...

I agree. When my players create their characters, they write up detailed backgrounds. Those backgrounds often include new NPCs...

I’m right here, you know.

This reminds me of the discussion of the new cast for the Harry Potter HBO series. They get so much hate online (how sad your life is...