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I'm aware of the history here. Among a dozen or more other books I've read Peterson's "Playing at the World", Fine's "Shared Fantasy"...

That's why a good heel finds ways to break (or bend) the rules without getting caught. The most basic formula: •The audience sees •Ref...

I do not use the ignore feature as a rule. I prefer to see what folks post even if a few drive me nuts.

I have run straight Gamma World, other GW adjacent, Aftermath!, Morrow Project, though I have also reached back in time and run 6th...

I feel you sir (I say on a thread I started).

Amusingly, this is why I hardly bother to post new threads anymore, I have likely over half the active posters on the site on ignore, so...

I was always fond of the TV show The 100. More or less hard Apocalypse for the mains at first, but soft Apocalypse for the Grounders...

I do think its important to distinguish between hard post-apocalypse (Mad Max*, Book of Eli) where scarcity and social breakdown are...

I see simulation as an attempt to create a predictive model of a setting. This leads to some other assumptions: In the absence of...

The post-apocalypse is my favorite genre in which to game, whether it just occurred or is still occurring, or as a backdrop to a present...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. The apocalypse, as used in fiction, generally means the destruction of civilization, leading to a drastic...

simulation to me is...trying to give everything enough of it's own set of rules to minimize the amount of times where you need to ask...

Outside of rpg context, a simulation is a test engine for determining outcomes for certain sets of parameters based on observed...

This is very cool! The recently released Explorer's Guide for Star Trek Adventures covers very similar territory also in a "grounded in...

No, not really. (Every game I play has it, so I would never feel immersed…)