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To a point, but not every older style game assumed an extremely tight hand on the reigns there when it comes to players introducing...

The biggest question often comes to what degree he's playing in a principaled way about what the consequences of those encounters. In...

shrug If you say so. I've discussed this before, and in other contexts, so it's not worth arguing about. I think people misunderstand...

Yeah, but the core mechanics had some pretty severe levels of abstraction; that was even obvious to people in the 70's. When the...

I think he believed it- but it has to be adjusted for the time period. Given his wargaming roots, he was intimately familiar with all...

I think this is too proscriptive and would seem to suggest that narrativist play isn't possible outside of games specifically built for...

While I thought the rest of this post was sound, I'll state flatly that there are moves in Monster of the Week that cause you to pass or...

I'm honestly not sure what people mean when they say 'play to find out what happens', I've seen it used in a load of different ways...

Its an admitted broad generalization so not prone to being true across all time and games. This blurb itself is just one example from...

That explains it much more, I think. Effectively you were kind of in a box of a particular time and variety of D&D much longer than I'm...

From summer of 1986 until about 2000....so fourteen years, minus a few years while I was at university and didn't have any time to play...

Hmmm. That begs the question what even counts as "simulate"? D&D style hit points never seemed to simulate "reality" to any degree...

I guess technically OD&D didn't have rules for those, either. They were used a lot, but that may have had to do with people coming from...

I'm a bit puzzled about the bold since that stuff - grids, battle mats, minis, etc. - has been there since its wargaming roots.

I was seeing race and class treated as separate in 1975 (that races were to be treated as quasi-classes may have been the intent but it...