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It's down to what's being abstracted, right? Spells fill an area and might be partially avoided, swords connect or don't. The real issue...

I think this is pretty common - Save for Half is, essentially, identical to Damage on a Miss - the only difference is who rolls the dice

I realize you used "typically", but I'm not 100% sure how broad that is; while I run games that seem interesting to me, there are a lot...

The reason I ask is because I find roll under systems feel subjective to PCs, like if in D&D a GM changed the DC based on who was...

I think there's a little more than that going on. Your example above uses goal essentially as a clarifying question about the situation...

I just don't see it. It always comes back to "I'm imagining a world, and filtering it through these rules for players to interact with"...

The GM has to serve as the senses of the PC, but at the same time, it's simply not feasible to narrate every detail that we actually...

From discussion here and elsewhere, simulationism seems to label game play characterised by i) giving the imagined world precedence and...

Things can get weird because a lot of Narrativist best practices aren't actually best practices and what gets ported between games is...

It's starting to stand out as a fault line. It can seem weird to picture play in which at every moment players have at forefront of mind...

But the output of the rule using the modifier is not an evaluation of the character's skill (necessarily, if it's color, it might be)...

You know, if it was clear that the modifier wasn't representative of skill, perhaps even going so far as to primarily explain modifiers...

I proposed this kind of thing earlier, and I've been thinking about it since. I think it solves a little better for player agency than...

I'd push for clarity on what is meant by "illusion" here. To my eye, this is "illusory" only the same sense that the entire enterprise...

it's not inconsistent, the wandering monster is not being determined by the same roll that the players are using for a check, it is...