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You're not quite getting my point. It's not that it has to simulate reality. It's that a simulation has to simulate something...

Not 4e D&D. There is not a simulationist bone in the body of that RPG. But Rolemaster 1000%. The only RPG I know that is more...

Yes, and if it is possible to satisfy a desire for verisimilitude in the absence of what one identifies as "simulationism" that leaves...

Sure. I've spent a good chunk of the past N pages talking about this. It's about the process whereby the shared fiction is established...

I didn't speak for anyone else. I did edit to note that @hawkeyefan had a similar response to mine.

If the GM rolls a random encounter, and decides to use some Orcs, and furthermore decides that they are sneaking up on the PCs to ambush...

Terrific! I recommend, then, that you not play Burning Wheel or Apocalypse World.

I don't recall 2 am being a feature of the example set out in the blog: It’s classic roll playing, you’re at a house, the door is...

See, then the problem with this is that I consider my games of Stonetop and Spire and Blades in the Dark to be just as...

Do I see how it's different? Yes. I'm not sure if this helps reveal anything, and I think it continues to kind of misconstrue things...

These desires can be satisfied using resolution systems that are not "simulationist" at all. I know this from my own experience! EDIT...

You're missing the point of simulation. At it's base, a simulation, in order to actually BE a simulation, must tell the person...

If three or four of those things were to happen in a row, then someone would drop to zero hp - all from sizing up! And that could...

I said that it changes the way the shard fiction is established. In the "fail forward" example, it is the failure of the player's roll...

Yes. This is the case in AD&D sometimes too, albeit the label given to the roll is different. - eg Rangers, and unarmoured Elves and...