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I am a lawyer, but very definitely not a bankruptcy lawyer. I did a very quick bit of research, and it appears that this is an area of...

I haven't said anything about whether or not I care for them. I'm saying that they're not simulationist. The action economy in D&D, the...

So why does everyone stand around while others act, according to the repeated ticking of some weird 6-second metronome?

But they're not necessary. That's the point!

This is the part that has always baffled me about the whole "I play D&D as sim" crowd. Why would you insist on playing a system that is...

Yeah very good point that I should have mentioned especially given that… In the example I gave it's the 'go aggro' mechanic (created by...

But notice what that requires: "6. If your abstractions do not match your fictional world, de-abstract until they do." That's...pretty...

And as I've posted, D&D's combat resolution rules contradict that manifesto at multiple points: they are not "diegetic" and they don't...

Perhaps, when a person speaks in the generic, they aren't making a personal attack against you.

But obviously there is a choice to avoid the sort of non-simulationist play that hit points produce. Dozens upon dozens of RPGs show how...

The issue is not in-game time. In-game time can pass at the rate of seconds per hour of play, or years per hour of play, depending on...

To me, it seems that your criteria are routinely violated in everyday RPGing. I've already pointed out, in this thread, that D&D combat...

Not for the many 1000s of RPGers who adopted RPGs that were deliberately designed to eschew the non-simulationist elements of classic...

If you accept hit points while wanting simulationist mechanics as a general principle, it makes it very hard for us, as outsiders to...

"Sorry, that I'm looking at my character sheet, but so far my character sheet is more interesting than the game you are running."