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This is the part that has always baffled me about the whole "I play D&D as sim" crowd. Why would you insist on playing a system that is...

The issue is not in-game time. In-game time can pass at the rate of seconds per hour of play, or years per hour of play, depending on...

Perhaps, when a person speaks in the generic, they aren't making a personal attack against you.

Again… sounds like a GM problem. Or maybe a combo of that player and GM. This isn’t generally a problem in the games I’ve run or...

Because I don't want to focus on the tactical and want our focus attention on these moral flashpoints. I also just do not want to spend...

If you accept hit points while wanting simulationist mechanics as a general principle, it makes it very hard for us, as outsiders to...

Moral: pertaining to how people should treat one another (perhaps also themselves; perhaps non-human animals; perhaps "the world"; etc)...

Moving on from there being a conventional wisdom of what roleplaying games are and can be is an improvement from my perspective. Not...

I can get that. I just think anyone who's willing to deal with D&D style hit points shouldn't get too strident talking about gamism as...

Right, but we’ve moved past the point where there is a conventional wisdom about this. Because the conventional wisdom aligns with your...

Isn't that the point? That there isn't necessarily conventional wisdom to be offered? That we've moved past the point where the “purpose...

At bare minimum in order to get to the point where we can even roll the dice we need to establish the following: fictional positioning...

Challenge away.

So, there are basically 4 places we could block any given action in a roleplaying game: Intent: a character wants to do something...

I find the idea that you don't care about standards beyond your own game to be dubious given the nature of the majority of your posts...