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Gridded chalkboard and chalk here, to much the same effect. :) Usually the players draw the map on the board form my description; if...

In my view, the bolded is the best approach by far. Tony's not dealing with the wight, Dunwick is; and asking Dunwick what he's doing...

A lot of trad folks don't think about their play with the deep introspection and dissection the Narrativists seem to favor. That should...

Usually, no; or the notes they do take turn out not to be what I in fact later need to remember. I sometimes jokingly cheer for my...

You're not wrong, but it works both ways. Most players would I think be equally baffled by the principles inherent in many narrative...

Yes, bad D&D is still D&D. We've agreed Dragonlance is railroady as all hell, which makes it bad. It's still D&D, but not D&D that I'd...

So far, I agree. We tend to overthink the crap out of some of this stuff, forgetting (or ignoring?) that most of the player-base is...

There are, I suspect, considerably more sim-oriented GMs than there are sim-oriented players. At least, the DM side cares about it more...

That's very possible. It's a cause-and-effect situation: if the entry-point game - which also has by far the biggest influence on the...

Agreed, but pemerton's right in that WotC-era D&D combat resolution with hard-coded turns does overly break it down into stop-motion...

Not true. We know they failed because of something they did wrong. Not true. If the cook pops in, it's something the cook did, not...

If D&D couldn't take advantage of mythical hazards (which in this case may or may not be mythical after all), it wouldn't have very many...

Well if you've said that it's wrong, I guess it must be! The scales have fallen from my eyes and now I see the truth! Oh wait ... nah...

Modern D&D might not be all that sim-friendly but it doesn't take much to push TSR-era D&D a reasonable distance toward sim; there's a...

I find they often can't - or won't - separate the info, and will instead do one of two things: --- blatantly use info their characters...