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Which is why I find the "I'm a sim fan so I don't like it" argument, coming from people who mostly play D&D or D&D variants, pretty...

I just don't see any reason why being flexible shouldn't be the norm. You don't see a ton of people who play exactly one type of...

I don't judge wargames. I do, sometimes, judge moots - simulated arguments in an appeals court. the significance of my expertise is that...

It's also sometimes argued that D&D is a genre in itself, which could mean it is simulating itself. Where I balk however is at...

Okay, then to @Hussar ’s point, would you put 5e in that category?

Tuovinen’s blog post articulating sim as an agenda argues for it more strongly than I can, and we already discussed it on this thread...

Because it makes it seem like a creative agenda is something a player is, rather than something they pursue. When I play Daggerheart...

Then by this metric, which RPGs would you say are not simulationist?

Players aren't simulationist or narrativist (or anything else). Play is. You might label a player who only wants to play games that...

If it's OneTrueWayism to make a judgment that "thinking deeply" about a topic is superior to "not thinking deeply" when discussing said...

This is all true. But while Pendragon doesn't have hit locations, it does have simultaneous resolution (although only approximately...

Let's stick with the notion of First Person Shooters (FPS) games for am moment. Now, the mechanics of the game will determine how the...

I'm prepared to accept that, in most D&D play, there are broad genre conventions and table understandings that rule out the "pixies...

Nice shifting goalposts there. Why did you fall? What happened? You failed the climb check and fell. The mechanics are entirely...

The actual process behind it matters. Why are they seperating them? What agenda are they pursuing?