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By the way, I would totally be on board with the 8 Aesthetics of Play if it managed to kill off the terms 'Simulationism' and 'Gamism'...

What I think a lot of people forget about play agendas is that there was not an assumption that every player had one. A creative agenda...

Because the point of a setting is to be a set of tools for players to use to support themes and modes of play. There are plenty of...

Heh. It's really funny. Wayyyyy back early in the thread, I commented that D&D was a poor system for sandboxing because of the amount...

Installing an expert to makes decisions could feasibly be called a mechanic. (I might not call it that myself, but I can see an argument...

I don't see much of a particular difference between those use cases, no. My question is more of "Did you, as a DM, spend a lot of time...

As I posted, in Classic Traveller it's identified as a procedure for GM-less play. (Traveller calls that playing without a referee.)

So according to you, procedural-generation play of the sort flagged in the Classic Traveller rulebooks (1977) or the DMG Appendices...

Yeah, I won’t fully detail a setting without involving the players, and any game I GM will have group character creation. I want...

More power to you if you can pull it off. For my life experiences, I usually start with the group, and then we pick games that fit the...

The difficulty in getting a quorum of players to actually consume and then use in play the setting information in these thick settings...

Agreed. My reading isn’t that Edwards was biased against all Sim; merely that there was visceral dislike of the storyline and setting...

I’ve advocated players being flexible for a long time. I think a player being strongly tied to one character concept is equally...

D&D was a hard habit for me to break. It was my main game for decades. I’ve been through every edition. By the time I stepped away, both...

That’s been a fairly consistent point of contention since the inception of Forge theorizing.