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Yep. Pink elephants also ride in on little tricycles, while Vecna turns up in a clown car. I can't believe it's taken you so long to...

Besides the RAW being terrible IMO, I think you're forgetting that the entire debate was centered around a Fail Forward. Are you saying...

This language of "the GM allows" is, to me, a hallmark of GM-driven/GM-centred play.

What sort of simulation are you running with D&D that you can't run with (say) T&T? Or to put it even more bluntly, what sort of...

Yes, I often play football without a referee and it goes perfectly well. They are called pickup games, and the experience more closely...

Ah, I didn't go back far enough! I did indeed find it strange that I would supposedly be the first to make that association.

The question is: is that diegetic? Do the fantasy heroes know that they cannot be killed by a single shot? I think that the answer is...

All that I see being said about D&D being helpful for simulation is that it generates results, and it can do so without needing to have...

Not really. That's not the point of the Jenga tower. The point of the Jenga tower is to ramp up the horror factor by ramping up the...

If you were more skilled, you would have picked that lock a lot sooner, before the cook made his way to the kitchen. If you were more...

Right. This point was made, way upthread, by @hawkeyefan and me (back then it was crumbling rocks, rather than sharp rocks). Yep, I...

HOLD THE HORSES! STOP THE TRAIN! For 1,000+ pages people had issues with the unfortunate luck of running into a cook when one failed...

Only if you treat the context of the game as an interchangeable slot to put the widget in. Not everyone is running campaigns with 20...

Sorry, but going to separate this one out. Where it's useful is in actually creating a taxonomy for discussing a game. If a DM says...

So, by this definition, simulation has nothing to do with the system. It's mostly due to the person running that system? Is that a...