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Then what on earth does "being a simulation" even MEAN? Because at this point you've reduced it to little more than "doing what I like...

Eero Tuovinen talks about these different approaches to "simulationist" play in his blog: Observations on GNS Simulationism –...

This isn't my experience. Competent people make their own luck, along these sorts of lines:

The reason hit points are not a simulation is not because they are not granular. It's because they don't model anything. They are just a...

This is not correct. I mean, I learned to play BW from Revised. I only quote Gold because the text is available as a free download from...

That's not the comparison class I'm working with.

The thing you quoted said nothing about your views. It said that the game under discussion--D&D--is not a very good simulationist game...

I'm not telling you what your view is. I'm telling you about D&D. The idea that hp, saving throws, surprise rolls, etc are...

This is especially important, if we're actually looking at how play works. It's obvious that many elements of the fiction, which must...

But, you do. This is exactly the same process that you use. You choose to have an event occur (or rather the dice choose for you) and...

I understand "independent of the player". That's why I call the RPGing "GM-driven" or "GM-centred". I assert that, if the trigger for...

This makes no difference as to whether it is "quantum". Unless "quantum" now just means what some posters don't like.

And there we have it perfectly laid out. The encounter is rolled FIRST. THEN the scene is created to make the encounter flow in the...

That's the thing. There is no difference. The "random encounter roll" is not connected to anything other than, as you say, having this...

GMs having a mental model they develop and evaluate is only more like our moment-to-moment existence as long as we are dealing with...