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The player decisions are always meta to some degree. TTRPGS are not perfect simulations, so at some point the player is going to look to...

Sure, but it's a loose approximation, right? I'm not sure it's all that different in nature from metacurrencies that represent things...

"Ehhh". Is it well designed or laid out? "Ehhh"

I don't know what 'reasonably possible' means here. Lots of games have very contrived game systems, for example turn-based ones. No-one...

Here I was more referring to the idea that if metacurrency creates a particular result, you can present that in an artificial and...

"If you didn't bother to write it, why should I bother to read it," applies in creative works.

Some of it is luck, sure, but in a lot of ways, it's luck you make. You keep persisting in trying to find the right players, you don't...

I think we had this conversation quite recently, but a lot of metacurrencies are not things outside the setting. They are things within...

And do you think most people other than you would choose the more disadvantageous option in that scenario, or just the one that caused...

I do find it interesting that some folks do not want an intrusion into the fiction by an outside, or meta, force -- EXCEPT the GM. The...

One shots and organized play. Try before you buy. No more going in blind.

This sounds like a skill issue. I find it trivially easy to incorporate such things into a consistent narrative. You just build on the...

I think the term ‘slop’ is being overused these days, where people will label anything they don’t like as slop. But, when it comes to...

You don't need immersion to play a role; that's the core distinction between a lot of our perspectives. Fitting a mechanical prompt...

No, it’s you. That’s what having absolute agency over your character’s mental state means. Your character never feels or acts in a way...