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I'm late to the party, but I think there's a subtle broadening of "gamist" going on here. Sometimes it seems to mean "a game that's...

We've talked a lot about simulationism. But really I think it grates on me the most from the gamist perspective. If I as a player can...

If they're unwilling to accept the possibility of losing, I wouldn't call them "gamers." They're certainly not willing to play any sort...

Only if they think the game is boring. (Seriously, this is a crap line and I'm sick of seeing/hearing it.) There are real fundamental...

This is... Strange. Like, the reason systems are interesting is to present challenges that can be honestly engaged with. If you're not...

I don't know why you'd want to play a game about it at that point, better just to do collaborative storytelling outright. Plus the...

I am a very competitive person--part of the reason I very much prefer cooperative board games at this point is that I do not like who I...

Wild. I'm literally the opposite. I struggle to deal with rules that are move involved than maybe one side of a sheet of paper. I'd much...

Not the bit I care about, really. I draw a pretty hard line between "gathering more information about the board state" by asking the GM...

My complaints are many. :p The biggest problem though is that play often isn't about using the rules to get a desired outcome, or...

I've been almost exclusively a GM on and off for the last 15 years. My current group has been playing for 3. I play a lot of games that...

Yeah, I put the blame on the traditional insistence on loosely held rules. It's quite difficult to trust the same entity with playing...

In the case of TRPGs--and relevant to what @Bae'zel said just upthread--what I tell the people at the tables I'm GMing at is that they...

I really don't think that's a behavior fundamentally related to playful competition. I met up with the same 3 friends to play 18xx games...

I get what you're saying but ultimately, if the game only works when people don't think about it too much, then the game doesn't really...