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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...

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

There's a difference between "could survive" and "no chance of dying" at least if some attempt at modeling reality is the goal. There...

As you say, a simulation doesn't have to simulate reality. However, in this case it seems to me that was the intent, and the GM, perhaps...

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...

Simulation means to me that we take seriously the imagined fictional universe as a real place and we try to imagine and inform the...

And why I never claimed you were speaking any other way.

Agreed. That’s why I inserted “personally” instead of stating a universal truth.

Glad you like it buddy. This ain't just some slapdash cosmology (and of course I only showed the lower 6 dimensions) so much thought out...

I'm loving this and this is exactly pertinent to why I want to explore high level play as I intend the campaign to delve into the...

In a nutshell: some general ballpark of plausibility-of-outcome and in-world consistency for how things work. Even if fantastic foes...

Savage Worlds is a hodgepodge of influences, to be sure. I don’t think being genre flexible is a barrier to being strongly...

Certainly there are many more simulative systems, I agree. But it's not like Savage Worlds is a storygame.

With respect, I feel like you really want to point at pretty trivial elements, and say, "Hey, look! It's simulation!" Yes, there's...