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I neither agreed nor disagreed with your post. I simply pointed out that Traveller has a feature that you didn't mention. As best I...

It's difficult to ignore HPs in D&D because so many of the resolution systems are explicitly tied into using ablation of HP as their...

I would generally say the system "feeding into the fiction" doesn't make for a sim element. The system trying to capture and model a...

Just focusing on what you say about characters: (1) I do that - and have done that - with Marvel Heroic RP. I have built Marvel heroes...

The difference is important. Hit points are just abstraction. Falling a 100ft and being able to stand up and dance a jig is a...

I would point out that the examples I gave earlier were not about hit points. They were about game outcomes that occur within the...

I just made a long post about this. But I'm not a poster who talks about a "sim" group vs "sim haters".

Well I was playing around with 3.5 the other day and I realised that if I gave a Mature Dragon one level of Abjurant Champion they would...

The class system.

There is no real Narrativism (premise-forward play) in traditional roleplaying games, including in games like Pendragon and Vampire that...

Wearing heavy armor makes you dodge better?

Do you think the degree of metagaming possible in Traveller combat, that arises from its rule for allocating damage dice against...

Edwards has plenty of discussion about various approaches to D&D play, and the influence on D&D design (over time) of various play...

Would they? Have you ever even seen that metagame aspect of Traveller mentioned by anyone before me in the post you quoted? I mean, I...

I believed the same thing for years and often said GNS would have gone over better if it was just a Narrativist manifesto. When I'd got...