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There is no "GM of the real world". The real world is not an imaginative leisure activity with role-differentiated participants.

But that definitely won't ever result in being told you're wrong because the setting bible says so. Y'know. The setting bible you...

I don't see how this answers my questions about T&T and TB2e.

There is no "GM of the real world". The real world isn't a leisure activity involving imagination distributed across asymmetric...

So is this an example of RPGing per se, or of simulationist RPGing? What do you have in mind?

Really? You don't narrate scenes unless the players specifically tell you that they are looking? They just wander around completely...

Having succeeded on the Insight check, the player then decided what the relevant argument was. The GM deciding that there are sharp...

Yup, in that case, you can say that it was skill that granted success. Absolutely. Nice corner case where the mechanics do actually...

@EzekielRaiden I haven't followed all the details of your guard-bribing example. But my general experience, which underlies the...

This is no different from the rope case. A rope can't be severed without their first being a sharp rock. And how was the sharp rock...

So D&D is simulationist, whereas T&T is not, because D&D includes weather rules? How many tables use those rules? To what end? I mean...

What I don't understand is how these are simulations in any manner that is more particular than just playing a RPG. I mean, when I...

I put player contribution and the players' knowledge of history in the same basket, when it comes to understanding how RPGing works -...

I think the Isekai thing is actually one of the most interesting challenges in rpg design. You can of course get around it by having...

The first thing in this quote is the "isekai vibe" - the character is ostensibly at home in this imagined world, but to the player the...