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Well, sure. There's nothing wrong with not playing a game. I just think that some people put all the weight of immersion on the DM or...

Unlike a lot of other "theorycraft" gamer jargon, I don't feel like "immersion" means whatever the person saying it wants it to mean in...

Maybe you don't like it because it breaks immersion for you?

You can claim that you, personally, find it breaks your own immersion, without trying to claim it generally does so. Folks can make...

But if it doesn't happen, and it's important to you that it does, then you're not going to enjoy that game much. If you're the GM...

Well...many of those things do annoy me. Maybe there's something to what you're saying here.

Yeah, in my experience many Actual Plays are so twisted up in providing an "entertaining" experience (so they can get all the clicks and...

The more AP I watch, the less it resembles actually playing an RPG.

I prefer when players make choices that make sense for their characters to make in the given situation within the setting, rather than...

NMS definitely suffered for years from having a procedural generation system that created a lot of stuff with nothing to do, though I...

You can make up a lot of things on the spot as the GM and pass it off, especially if you're skilled. The players won't know if you fudge...

Probably not, unless it becomes clear that the most narratively appropriate things keep happening. But whether or not the players...

I think it is useful to remember George Box when thinking about simulation: “all models are wrong, some are useful”. It’s often applied...

Seems like more of Gygax putting on his salesman hat again, yeah.

I think this is wrong because the motivation (as far as we know) for Gygax was to model something, not create a useful or fun gameplay...