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D&D is plenty granular for what I look for out of a game. I do tweak some things to make them a bit more realistic, or just to make sense. What I love about D&D, though, is that the gamist/narrativist/simulationist portions are about even. It doesn't do any playstyle fantastically, but does...

That is incorrect. The farrier existed because it should exist in a town like that and I just forgot it, not because the player hoped it would. The player may also have hoped it would, but it wasn't the hope that put the farrier there.

That still doesn't make sense to me. If a game doesn't simulate something to the degree I want, I don't gain a greater appreciation or understanding of that something if I alter it to be closer to what it is that I want. It's just closer to what I want.

5e has the success with a complication optional rule in the 5e DMG. It basically adds a two tiered DC check. If the DC for something is 15, at 15 or higher is a full success. However, it also has a success with a complication DC of 13, so if you roll a 13 or 14, you succeed but something...

That works, too. There just has to be lore for it. When something mechanical happens in the fiction, some sort of lore needs to be there to compliment it.

No it's like saying that if you experiment with scrambled eggs, and you also experiment with cheese, you can see how it will be possible to make scrambled eggs with cheese, and if you add just a bit of pepper from what you learned in cooking school, it could be really good. Keeping in mind that...

Why is it a dead end? There are several different ways through a door other than picking the lock. And who said they need to get through it?

Exactly. Every person and table as a level of realism that they like, and it can vary by aspect of the game. You could want more realism when it comes to falling damage and combat, but less when it comes to arms and armor. Realism in RPGs is basically a bunch of spectrums that DMs/Players...

They all can be. It's not like magic will only have aspects that are obviously part of the spell like range and fire. There will be other areas we don't know about as part of the art of magic, plus as I mentioned in the other example, things the wizard learned as an apprentice that can be...

So is going to the bathroom. It doesn't have to be on camera. It can be, just like going to the bathroom, but there are generally better things to play out in the limited time the group has. I didn't have to invent anything. The wizard is in fact experimenting and practicing with his spells...

What are you talking about. No Fireball. Then Fireball. That's a new spell. It explicitly IS the same thing. Doesn't matter. It's still there. There's no twisting happening in the game world. It's a lore explanation for where the new spells come from. And mechanics like that have to have...

If simulationism is just appreciation and understanding of a subject, then someone could pick narrativism as that subject. They would then not be playing a narrative game, but simulationist one instead, since he's trying to achieve elevated appreciation and understanding of narrativism. That...

Do you honestly expect us to get the detail anywhere near 100%? There isn't enough time in a day to go over everything that's happening in the game world, let alone a 4 hour session.

Yeah. The one I posted was of either my wife or son, can't remember which and both would do something like that, making me wear one of my wife's icepacks on my head. Laughing at that one would be par for the course. :P

I once received a letter that said that they were a secret organization of psychics who identified me as someone with the potential for psychic power. The level of my power is represented by the playing card they mailed to me, and spades is the most powerful suit. Of course they sent me an ace...

I just don't get it. You'd think that someone who learned enough to get into a college, and learned enough to earn a degree, and then learned enough to pass law school, then get a job to practice law, would have learned that AI can't be trusted to get fingers and toes right, let alone a...

In every game, including yours, the fiction includes a lot of stuff that never makes it to the table. There's no way we can do, see or narrate everything that would be going on in the fiction, so we each focus on the parts we enjoy the most. I'm confident that my game is really interesting to...

We do see it. Every time the wizard casts a spell in or out of combat, including times where he tries to get creative with the use of one of his spells, that's practice, experimentation and training, etc. In the fiction at level up it's something like, "Hmm. You know, if I take the ranged...

Elevated appreciation and understanding of what? I can have an elevated appreciation and understanding of gamist play, narrativist play, or simulationist play. If it's just "elevated appreciation and understanding," it's gobbledygook. People enjoy sim play, because they want a greater sense...

They way it seems to me, is if it's not really a valid move to deny the players idea if he makes successful roll, what the roll does is determine who is authoring the runes. If the roll is successful, the runes say what the player wanted them to say. The DM doesn't really author the runes...