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Vincent Baker is not especially casual. He's serious about game design. I don't see how that makes him elitist or condescending.

He's written the essay to praise simulationist play. He is showing that it is worthwhile, and that it doesn't need to be described in...

lmao this thread has gotten completely unreadable when logged in now due to ignores (both toward me and by me). funny I'm astonished at...

Here is Baker again: If you're designing a Narrativist game, what you need are rules that create a) rising conflict b) across a moral...

I don't really see the connection between winning and feelings/enjoyment. When I play card or board games, I often lose. That doesn't...

Yeah, what would Vincent Baker know about designing RPGs? Much earlier in this thread we worked out that he's just some internet rando.

If you mean that Tuovinen has a sense of superiority about simulationist play, I think that's a bit unfair.

I play Torchbearer 2e. When PCs get injured, or sick, their performance of tasks is impeded. When they get exhausted, they are closer to...

I'm not sure that all do. For instance, some "cozy" RPGs seem to emphasise tea parties and the like. Some dungeon crawls, also, don't...

No he's not! In the paragraph I quoted he (i) mentions Fate (a game which most naturally supports simulationist play) and (ii) expressly...

Maybe. I think part of the issue is that these kinds of debate push people towards more and more absolutist definitions of things, where...

Okay? Not sure what that has to do with what I said. This seems to imply that the world waits for the character to decide what to do...

The idea that's it silly if a player establishes it, but perfectly reasonable if the GM establishes it, is to me a manifestation of an...

Well, this is not really sufficient. Narrativist play is play that is focused on a premise. That premise has, or begets situations with...

I'm not calling you a hypocrite. I'm just expressing some incredulity at the apparent gap between what you say you prefer, and the RPG...