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But being in control of an imaginary character's mental stat is just authorship. All RPGing involves players authoring characters. I...

Right. The GURPs player doesn't actually feel any desire to drink alcohol. They're not playing an alcoholic. They're playing a rational...

I just want to elaborate on this a little bit. The only time characters in fiction do things that "don't make sense" is (i) if the...

These two things are often at odds with each other though. 'Cool monster to fight' is surely a more common roadside encounter in your...

But shorn of all the real world inputs that affect such a perspective. Hunger, tiredness, social pressure, courage, desires, fears, etc...

Immersion is not something that can be discussed in a session zero IMO. Its a very personal and introspective feeling at least in my...

I don’t think there’s an obvious right answer. What I do think is that if you’re playing in a game with sim priorities, is that you...

This is explcitly the stance taken in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer. The Dragonmark feats aren't gated by species or anything else...

This has always struck me as weird doublethink. Have the courage of your convictions, let the rules do what they say they do. If you...

Well, the core problem is the DM using the term "realistic" when they really mean "verisimilitudinous". Sim priorities are more...

For my personal version of Eberron, I split the difference. The majority of Dragonmarks are passed on via familial/"genetic" lines, but...

If I were to use them in another setting, the first thing i would do is completely disentangle them from ancestry. I have even...

I'm actually a big fan of the d30, it feels like a d20 but with more granularity in the results.

agree with all those points. My 4: GURPS Traveller Fiasco Torchbearer Microscope