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We use a lot of Blades tech in my homegroup's other games. Our Vampire hack, our Cyberpunk Cortex hack and our Final Fantasy 8 Cypher...

It is most striking to me how this little exchange is echoing closely some of the discussions that happened almost 25 years ago at The...

Why can’t you just say “In a living world sandbox, the setting is the priority, and that’s a good thing”?

Dude. Did you seriously turn to "hit points" for an example of a simulationist model? Hit points? Solid joke. 9/10. You almost...

At the table the kayfabe where we do not acknowledge the real world causes of why our characters are acting the way they are or why the...

Micah said this a few pages back. A table does not make a decision. A person reading the table does. If you make a setting with a...

Right, clocks and all that stuff is clearly one set of tools for a designer to drop an entire sandbox-city/setting (I’m running a...

I think there’s just some resistance or whatever on their behalf to buying into your core assertion that “it’s all turtles GM decisions...

These aren't cases of imaginary things having real effects. These are actual things - mental and/or bodily states - having real...

My limited experience (read: I've read Crime & Punishment) suggests that the act of murder is more enjoyable in the contemplation than...

Sometimes people will be too scared to kill someone, sometimes they won't be. Hmm. If only there was some way to resolve such...

I mean, are you simply arguing that a lot of people without agendas and principles? The DM just says "Well, this feels good, let's do...

This claim is I think actually is controversial in the philosophy of fiction, because some philosophers think that fictions can be...

I could be wrong, but I took @TwoSix to be reiterating the fact that the fiction is authored in virtue of GM decision-making. Because...

There’s never one true way. But it’s there’s no sense of boundary as to what a “sandbox” is, then it’s a fairly useless term.