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If these other things remain the same --- the DM --- the rules system --- the setting (including relevant NPCs, pantheons, etc.) ---...

I thought I’d jump off here. Perhaps the elements I most consider ‘good sim’ or essential for sim from an rpg perspective aren’t...

Again, you're missing the point and I doubt you will ever accept what I say at face value. So let me try a slightly different...

My cat sneaks up on me all the time. The other day I was looking for my keys and they were right in front of me. I don't expect any...

And that is what I was talking about being irritating. I experienced this long ago in the dissociative mechanics threads during 4e. It...

It's impressive that you, having had to moderate through the edition wars, would still hold this position. :)

Yes there is. But the player deciding what their character hoped, made that decision based on information that the mechanics can make...

There are a lot of people here making various claims about various ways of describing games and whew this thread has ran a lot of pages...

You just need to find some runes and hope they indicate an exit ;)

Rats, I swore to myself I would be out right after post 20,000, and just above I find I authored 20,002. Is there no escaping this thread!

Post 20,000! Let’s give it up for post 20,000! Wooo!

It has been my experience that a DM that figuratively summons pixies to explain falling damage, and does that on a whim, will be lacking...

And yet, not in your rather silly example but in a broader sense, many DMs do seem to run that way: they prevent or veto the declaration...

The italicized bits seem so fundamentally obvious I don't know why they need stating.

You were very nice to them: the Crypt Thing teleported them all to the same place! :) IME Crypt Things are great for scattering parties...