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Multiple posters in this thread have pointed to examples of play from Burning Wheel as not being simulationist. You appear to do so...

And that's totally fair. I 100% agree. Follow your joy. Of course. If you enjoy that degree of world building? Knock yourself out...

Yes, it may be. But what I've seen is that most often, it's not. Many folks here and many I've discussed with and played with create...

GURPS is a toolkit game. I don’t think D&D should be used as such without careful consideration; I think it causes more problems than...

That is the stance I’m arguing against, yes.

I don't understand what this means. I've never posted anything about a wyvern attacking; nor about an unrelated event occurring on a...

Yes, that's true. I fell because I failed to hit the target number. Now, since none of that has any actual meaning in the game world...

So just to be clear: you are allowing that the play of Cortex+ Fantasy (hacked from MHRP), where the player has their PC read the...

To me, the issue is that the number of DMs who think making a super-specific setting is great fun vastly outstrips the number of players...

There’s a big difference between a Wookiee Jedi in Star Trek (where both concepts belong to a separate IP) and wanting to play an...

Ptolus is what, nearly a thousand pages long? Does rather prove my point I think. In something like Ironsworn, in Session 0, the group...

But that is neither diegetic - the roll of the dice is not something that the characters in the fiction are aware of - nor...

In BW, as per the example I gave, there is a pretty tight correlation between the fiction and the difficulty. This is the underpinning...

I'm not.

Sorry, but, haven't you repeatedly talked about how your game world is decades old? That you've been building this world for many, many...