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John Wick really is a perfect example of how high hit points function without the vague luck/skill explanation. You just get hit a lot...

I agree with this. This is probably true for all agendas, but particularly for sim play, you want your system truths and your setting...

I've always posited this as either a system or setting failure, and never been particularly sympathetic to claims this situation can...

It's difficult to ignore HPs in D&D because so many of the resolution systems are explicitly tied into using ablation of HP as their...

I would generally say the system "feeding into the fiction" doesn't make for a sim element. The system trying to capture and model a...

I have to think about this a bit more, but it strikes me that play focused on elevating one aspect of these five over the others (while...

Edwards has plenty of discussion about various approaches to D&D play, and the influence on D&D design (over time) of various play...

I think we may differ here because I think "exercising creativity" and "having a creative agenda" are two different things. Simply...

There is no real Narrativism (premise-forward play) in traditional roleplaying games, including in games like Pendragon and Vampire that...

The class system.

I don't really want to defend GNS but a big part of the idea of the creative agenda is that it can be implicit. I mean I think the...

I would say this. I think players can definitely have implicit agendas that map to their general preferences, but I definitely think a...

It definitely seems like the text of the spell is running under a different narrative of "possessed" than a lot of fantasy gamers would...

Yea, I think there are definitely more categories than that. But it's also why I'm not a fan of using the GNS model as a strict...

I dunno. Sim play is a really broad term. I don’t think it’s worth exploring commonalities in games that simply feature simulation...