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If you're trolling, that is an A+ job. A true work of art, completely within any conceivable board rules, and delivered with apparent...

Well, as noted, trad games tend to have a lot more tolerance for the GM putting their thumb on the scale. In theory at least, if a set...

That was more or less my point. There were early games that made some serious attempts at simulation (though even they only took it so...

Yeah, but it was the "not passing or failing anything" I was disagreeing with. You absolutely are doing that (and the fact that the...

I think its more a case they have to convey strongly what the game is trying to do, and how the rules support that. At that point, if...

That's all right, they tended to forget about us when GDS was being developed, too. (Given the only regular participants that leaned in...

Eh, I think it's more nuanced than that. Mostly because the game wasn't ... well, designed in the same way that we think of today. We...

OK, I see what you're saying. Thank you for elaborating. As I understand you you're talking about the difference between (broadly)...

Notice how much this was a peripheral rule that could end up coming up only irregularly and largely in a downtime context. There were...

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...