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When I think of my experiences GMing Rolemaster (at first weekly, and then fortnightly, for 19 years), I don't think that avoidance of...

5e needs a fey book. Random Encounter: 1d4 Santas

“You’ll never get me Strawberry Smiggles!”

Oh, I definitely think the result of an arbitrary algorithm still counts as a simulation. Any one of the 5 billion planets generated...

The Mistborn RPG from Brotherwise Games. Super excited.

That just doesn't make sense. Blue Lightning is so obviously superior, how can it be a competition? :)

I'm playing with people I've played with from years to decades. I try to remember how far this puts me from the situation of most people.

Stonetop tends to present “everybody knows / some might know / very few if anybody knows” levels of world details for things that recede...

Both awesome games I've played extensively.

To a degree. But my belief is that that specifically in a video game RPG, where you're spending the entire game staring at the PC you've...

I think it's a little deeper than that. A lot of the support for simulationism comes with the attached idea of "I want to feel like...

Fair point. To build on that, I do think it would be challenging to design a truly arbitrary resolution process, a process that doesn't...

So, just to demonstrate a half-agreement: I think good simulation does reduce what you're calling "narrative contrivance". Indeed...

That would be how I think of them, yes. They're designed mechanics to avoid even the appearance of "contrivance". From many years of...

When I see that term, I think of survival games like ARK or exploration games like No Man's Sky.