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Here is the latest Update (and last before the Beta release). As ever, if you have any questions about anything fire away. Planes Preview

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

Verisimilitude is very important to me, however I don’t see that as intrinsically simulationist. A good set of narrative mechanics would...

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...

Fair point. To build on that, I do think it would be challenging to design a truly arbitrary resolution process, a process that doesn't...

If clean, simple gameplay in general and serving your player's wants and needs in specific are your primary goals (as this reads to me...

Simulation is an attempt to recreate something real or that feels believably real. In the context of a RPG, simulation is a spectrum...

Somewhat. But, it doesn't have to be our real world. For examples, I can bring up much of the fiction of Robert L Forward - a...

So, just to demonstrate a half-agreement: I think good simulation does reduce what you're calling "narrative contrivance". Indeed...

Simulation seems to be something attempting to copy the real world. A flight simulator or golf simulator attempts to copy the real...

Yes, rule elements like the very granular weapon reach and space rules, or weapons versus armor types, from AD&D 1E are simulationist rules.

But it still depicts characters with statistics representing something real in the setting, traveling through a world full of things...

That would be how I think of them, yes. They're designed mechanics to avoid even the appearance of "contrivance". From many years of...

Both awesome games I've played extensively.

And by that logic, random encounter tables, and rules for when to use them, prepared before the session would be part of the "clockwork...