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No. It's doesn't. That's the point. WHY is never, ever explained in D&D. All that you get is the result. The character fell. Why...

Yes, there is a long history. And if you review that history, you'll see that games like RM, RQ, C&S, GURPS and the like are...

Heh. It's really funny. Wayyyyy back early in the thread, I commented that D&D was a poor system for sandboxing because of the amount...

These two phrases don't say the same thing: (A) The players declare their PCs actions, and everything else is worked out by the GM...

Nothing is stopping you from reading the relevant Burning Wheel rules for free, to see whether or not they are "lying". I've also quoted...

Just to add to this, and to address some comments about skill systems (which have come from @Crimson Longinus and @Don Durito): Here is...

The runes mean something when the PCs see them. But perhaps the PCs don't know what that is (eg in the actual play episode, when they...

Except that we have accepted that simulation does not require ANY causality between the mechanics and the result. The mechanics are...

This is so frustrating in this thread. I say this three times and I'm told I'm 100% wrong every time. You say it once and everyone...

Actually, if everyone's a superhero, everyone's a superhero

Yeah, I won’t fully detail a setting without involving the players, and any game I GM will have group character creation. I want...

As I posted, in Classic Traveller it's identified as a procedure for GM-less play. (Traveller calls that playing without a referee.)

Not correct. The Forge :: Fantasy Heartbreakers

So according to you, procedural-generation play of the sort flagged in the Classic Traveller rulebooks (1977) or the DMG Appendices...

Some people, when they play RPGs, prefer that all the setting backstory and the like is established prior to play. And some RPGs -...