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Well, that's the problem of sim in a nutshell. The violations are obvious, the constituents are not, and sharing those violations...

Oh I've read it. I imagine I'd have been a big fan if the timing worked out.

Personally, I still do this; whatever system I use I extrapolate to be true within the setting. When I run high-level D&D, everyone is...

I think there's a difference between "the simulation is abstracted" and "this simulation is providing results contrary to what I would...

I really miss the cottage industry around extrapolating setting from system. Once upon a time I thought that was where design was going...

Absolutely. I've been saying for a few years now than John Wick is the perfect encapsulation of what a high-level fighter is trying to be.

I agree with this. This is probably true for all agendas, but particularly for sim play, you want your system truths and your setting...

John Wick really is a perfect example of how high hit points function without the vague luck/skill explanation. You just get hit a lot...

I've always posited this as either a system or setting failure, and never been particularly sympathetic to claims this situation can...

Or you could address me about my post. And not hold people who like an overarching point as responsible for explaining my lack of...

One cognitive model of fiction argues (from evidence) that people maintain an internal representation of the real world, an internal...

Yes. Exactly this! If viewed as trying to differentiate narrativism from every other style of play it makes a lot of sense...

Really GNS exists as a way to carve out space for narrativism. I've always thought of it as sort of like a weird manifesto presented as...

I don’t think I’m suggesting anything incompatible with him. I don’t agree that only narrativist and gamist are the only agendas for...

You are now trying to impose a single definition of "sim" onto a conversation that has shown that there are a lot of understandings of...