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I think the player should make a map if the character would be making a map. If the character thinks the area is simple enough to not...

+ doesn't mean "no dissent." It just means, "be productive and civil in your debates."

Various people upthread have done a fine job of defining simulation in the same (or better!) terms that I'd use, which means I don't...

Or, coming at it from another direction, we get to choose what will be real in the game. Something can be a simulation by following a...

…must…resist…politics…. (head explodes)

To me simulationism means that any actions are adjudicated based on what would reasonably happen in a setting. This can be done via...

I think it's a little deeper than that. A lot of the support for simulationism comes with the attached idea of "I want to feel like...

I'd put it more that the GM found a major flaw in the simulation and corrected it on the spot. "On the spot", however, isn't exactly...

I think the simulationist impulse is to NOT have the GM make a decision because they think it will be a more interesting challenge or...

Would it be fair to say that the distinction between setup and resolution is important? That a GM can set up whatever scenario they...

The other kind of "sim" in video games that I think maps better to TTRPG play are "immersive sims" -- games that give you as many...

To me, simulation is simply the idea of modeling the game's setting as realistically as possible within the practical limits of play...

To me simulation is simply an attempt, however badly, to simulate something in real life. So in D&D when falling does 1d6 per 10 feet...

TSR tried putting out various D&D-adjacent pieces - boardgames, some memorabilia, etc., not sure about mugs - in the 80s and 90s and if...

To expand on this a bit - and to (gasp!) bring it back toward the thread topic - setting lore is far more likely to matter to the...