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What if one player is using original pre-nerfed CaGI and narrates it in a way that bothers everyone else at the table and ruins their immersion? So then CaGI gets nerfed by WoTC in official errata. Is it not reasonable to blame the mechanic, instead of blaming the players? WoTC could have said...

OMG, here we go again. Enough. I said I agree that I have a 'feeling of dissociation' which was very clearly expressed to pemerton and upthread. See post 802 2nd last paragraph. Get over your beef with me and move on please. I get irritated, become irritable, other people get irritated.. so stop...

Not very familiar with the hp threshold mechanics, so here are possibly stupid half-baked ideas: Some spells don't fail if creature's hp exceeds the threshold. Instead the spell is trying to work its way but the creature is resisting. Spell is triggered when creature's hp are reduced below the...

Yes, I should have written that "I" (instead of "one") would withdraw from actor stance. I've been trying now to frame all my posts from my subjective POV. I slipped up on that one sentence, thanks for course-correcting me. I've been honestly trying to avoid pointing fingers about other...

Ideally ivory tower, my playstyle goal isn't to reconcile iii with i. The goal is to be in-character and focus on ii. To do iii, one would have to withdraw to author or director stance. To do iii and remain in actor stance would be difficult for me. And if I did withdraw from actor stance to do...

I sure hope so. For example, according to RAW, the aforementioned "ray of truth" still hurts the mindless centipede. The mechanics (=eldritch blast affects any creature) calls the shots on the outcome in the fiction (=centipede is damaged). The reverse is not necessarily true: if the eldritch...

Ya, what I thought was 'process-sim' turned out to be defined here more stringently than I thought. So I dropped the terminology for myself because I decided it wasn't helping to get caught up in its definition and usage. @Manbearcat took this to mean something about changing the definition of...

Yes, but the original question was "What is there about being descended from a dragon that trains you with longswords and so on" which is not related to growing claws and stuff.

Just say that you respect my choice not to talk about labels and their respective definitions. You can talk to someone else about labels and definitions. Thank you for respecting my choice not to discuss labels. I appreciate your consideration and understanding.

Post 743 and surrounding posts. On Enworld, what's new? I gave you an xp and a "thanks, mea culpa" for it! OK, so won't address the rest of your post.

I thought about it. Just like dragons are, the dragon blood makes them natural fighters with their teeth and fingernails and tailbone swipe :)

Sorry, I've learned my lesson from the waste of time adopting the 'process sim' label that turned out not to be process-sim; I'll leave those label discussions to those who enjoy that kind of thing. But I will ask you why you're even thinking about that kind of thing in D&D, or this kind of...

Damn it, I adopted someone else's usage of "process-sim" as it doesn't pertain to D&D and allowed myself to get side-tracked with red herring semantics/labels... stupid, stupid, stupid. OK, please carry on :)

If it's not a two way street, then there won't be mutual understanding, that's true, the mantra won't help. Or if the expectation is to get people exactly on the same page as you, the mantra also won't help and one would be here on Enworld for years. Otherwise, with the 'Assume Less', one would...

Then either process sim doesn't mean what I think it is, or this subtopic has nothing to do with the bulk of this thread. But I HAVE played another game or three, just not GURPS, etc. Not sure. It did read as somewhat patronizing as much as I don't think you know what goes on in my head as much...

That is resolved by following this mantra: Assume Less. Ask More.

I'm not sure I'm able to do your post justice by responding to all of it, so let first make sure I understand this one point: Sure. In D&D, people often or usually roll a d20 and or take a hit or whatever and don't think about the process, they just gloss over it, is that you mean, in simple...

@Manbearcat, yes, that I definitely agree with.

Yes I know, except there's no need to have responded with "Actually, that's not..." You restated: According to the D&D ruleset, PC is still fully capable at 1 hp as much as 100hp. However, I attributed it like so: According to D'karr, hit points don't make sense under intense scrutiny at least...

My assumption is that nobody can prove that the average D&D player across all the lands plays pure sim systems. IME, my group has never played a bunch of those aforementioned systems. "Armchair academic" refers to theoreotical assumptions about the average D&D player should be doing. "Oh the...