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I realize I wasn't who it was directed at, but I can't say I'd feel any difference when the probabilities and approach were otherwise...

Except, as I said, I do. So maybe you don't want to use absolutes?

I realize you used "typically", but I'm not 100% sure how broad that is; while I run games that seem interesting to me, there are a lot...

I just don't see it. It always comes back to "I'm imagining a world, and filtering it through these rules for players to interact with"...

It would seem an odd objection, since such systems just bake the difficulty into modifiers on that roll.

Going farther back in time:

Drifting off slowly…

From discussion here and elsewhere, simulationism seems to label game play characterised by i) giving the imagined world precedence and...

Hey. A little less universalization here.

Many people over time lose the ability to separate the two out, if they ever had it. I'm not even sure I'm excluding myself here.

It really is a loveletter to the genre.

As this thread shows, the Disneys of the world will never let that happen. And we’re not talking just Disney (though that is powerful...

Yeah, art adds up quickly. There's a lot of it available to use on DriveThruRPG, but prices and quality are all over the place.

The problem was they bought themselves trouble from the start; its a system that encourages trying to find Advantage somewhere every...

I think there exists a confluence of what you've called neotrad and neosim here, where the process of character and setting creation is...