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I believe that the Emperor's original plan was to put Magnus the Red into the Golden Throne; it needs a big psyker but not necessarily...

No it isn't. Until and unless you can cover every single possibility in a concise ruleset you are going to have to rely on GM...

I think that the "watcmaking" simulationist RPGs - the one I know best is Rolemaster - are especially trying to mechanically represent...

I'll mention Torchbearer 2e. It has skill-based PC build, where the PCs have long skill lists (a bit like the classic sim games such as...

The big question (which is part of the incoherence of the GNS definition of Simulationism; there are multiple things Ron Edwards is...

In what game do they do this? In the main game with encounter based powers I can think of (D&D 4e) the powers did not recharge on "roll...

And I have said quite categorically upthread that for anything involving physical exertion and thinking in the head of your character...

And there is nothing that a person can observe in the real world directly that tells me how the smartphone I'm tapping away on works. It...

Yes it could. There is no game-world law for just about anything even in most "simulationist" RPGs unless you're playing something as...

It starts when you roll initiative and ends when you drop out of initiative. Now as for what "initiative order" is unless you're...

Real world militaries do, in fact, have definitions for encounters based on when and how an engagement starts and ends. There are real...

I really can't agree here other than that an encounter is a technical grouping of events and is as much a term of art as "Armour class"...

In a survey of 1,000 TTRPG players in the US, StartPlaying, a tabletop gaming matchup service for professional GMs, found that mental...

And this is where I have a serious problem with the people who talk about versimilitude in the context of D&D. Most of us are not...

I gave players 2d of rerolls in character gen in Traveller/MegaTraveller since the late 80's... some saved them for play. I didn't...