Recent content by Umbran

With respect, I don't take "vaguely suggesting what kind of person they might play if there were a role playing game" does not qualify as an RPG in my book.

So, with respect, DMing isn't hard for you, or me. EN World is loaded with folks who have found RPGs easy and fun. But, I don't think we should be claiming that running games is going to be everyone's cup of tea. To be direct - EN World is probably not loaded with people in the target...

I wouldn't include The Quiet Year. It is a great game, awesome for collaborative setting creation. But the player does not take on a role in the world that you are collectively developing, so I can't really call it a role-playing game. I might replace that with Dialect, which has more...

I would not hold your breath. I don't know that it is a priority for Xenforo.

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I think it is fine if our "immersion" covers both, honestly. For me, I characterize immersion as how aware I am that I am doing something else. Like, being immersed in a book means that the story absorbs my though so that I basically forget that I am reading a book. That doesn't mean I stop...

You can claim that you, personally, find it breaks your own immersion, without trying to claim it generally does so. Folks can make up their own minds if it is an issue that also impacts players at their own games.

My understanding is a bit of both. They are simulating a galaxy for folks to explore, and also want interesting gameplay.

I just noticed that for reading, we tend to glom all media in one thread, but for movies and video, we thread each separately. But maybe there are singular experiences that folks have that deserve a note, but maybe not a whole thread for them - that's what this is for. I'll start... Last...

Once? Almost certainly not. Rarely? Again, almost certainly not. If it is only the weather? Again, probably not really. But, if we bring in, say, encounters? Political developments in the world? Setting economy? GM choice and some form of systematic simulation will probably create...

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That's still intentionally modelling something. "Planet-like" is actually a whole lot. No Man's Sky has random numbers in the generator on the back end, but those numbers are then folded, spindled, and mutilated with a plan, to shape them with intent. I am more than sure that they tweaked and...

But, those aren't arbitrary. No Man's Sky has algorithms designed to simulate planets.

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