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I think it means you care about trying to get it right. You care that it feels right. You think 'maces are better against platemail...

My answer is that it doesn't matter even slightly if it's right. It matters if it feels right, or feels like it might be right. It...

I don't think so. Having the same information as the character, roughly the same incentives as a player and the character and making...

I don't think that's relevant to the immersion question; the goal there has nothing to do with what the output of the character is, just...

This has always struck me as weird doublethink. Have the courage of your convictions, let the rules do what they say they do. If you...

Which is why I prefer games with strong sim attitude towards play, because the moment in the middle of a game when I must suddenly rules...

NMS definitely suffered for years from having a procedural generation system that created a lot of stuff with nothing to do, though I...

Or perhaps we could go back to the start of this lineof conversation, and note that "avoiding narrative contrivance" a thing that TB...

I would go along with this. Part of the joy of Rolemaster is the sense of 'you input the factors of the situation, and it outputs 'what...

I would make the argument that the disclaiming of decision-making, specifically authorial decision making (the creation of the next...

Sure, I would agree with most of that. But assuming those arbitrary choices still produce some kind of functional output, I still think...

In specific, perhaps not from this exact thing (though maybe, depending how a GM presents things). In aggregate, yes absolutely: the...

But it also isn’t trying to model anything either, other than making something planet-like. There’s a difference between a computer...

I agree with your point here, and I think it points to divergence about whether the antecedents of a system, or the system itself matter...

I think that is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of simulation and of heroism in the context of D&D. The big misunderstanding...