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For me, immersion, as it relates to RPGing, is being what I would call "in character" in a method-acty sort of way. This doesn't mean...

The weapon vs. armor table descends from a similar table in the Chainmail wargame. The funny thing is the simulation got totally...

I feel like it's also a great way to describe Germany (though Austria* was worse): "Evoke culture through its own bureaucracy." * It...

I'm having trouble parsing your sentence.

I have never spent 3 hours coding, so I can't comment on that. I also don't think my RPGing has an "empty calories" quality, so I can't...

We'll have to wait and see. 5e has never really embraced anything new school, at least not very much. Endless recycling or re...

Because they dont want people to play older editions. They just want them to be NOT angry at them, so they do the bare minimum for this...

An implication of this is, I think, that TB2e is (to a significant degree) a simulationist RPG. I can cope with that; but it seems to be...

But it also isn’t trying to model anything either, other than making something planet-like. There’s a difference between a computer...

I only ever played one session of TMNT. Along the lines that @Voadam describes, we all built PCs who couldn't talk (but could...

To me, it seems that some RPGers use immersion not to describe a psychological state, but a logical one. For instance, here: That's not...

The campaign went for around 11 years, from the beginning of 1998 (or thereabouts) to the end of 2008. My estimate is that we played for...

Yes. I don't know why you think I (or anyone else) would think otherwise.

When I think of my experiences GMing Rolemaster (at first weekly, and then fortnightly, for 19 years), I don't think that avoidance of...

Great post. I think Rolemaster is massively underappreciated as a genuinely well-designed and evocative sim game. To my mind second...