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Not in a way that matters to the mechanics we're using, or the style in which we engage.

Interesting but odd conversation to be having on an RPG site.

It is certainly a good enough product for most of its target audience.

What does he say? I'm not in a position to watch a video.

Absolutely. I always advocate for smaller companies. I meant an end of an era for D&D specifically, if folks here are correct and there's no way to get the IP away from massive, profit-ravenous, publicly traded corporations with every incentive to take any legal action that make more money for...

I do (because darn my natural showmanship), but I value the mechanic primarily for its sim qualities.

End of an era. But at least the printed game had a good run, for the most part.

Perhaps, but it does so in a sim way, and that's my priority. It's an excellent example of handling multiple agendas simultaneously.

I just want the top to be much, much closer to the middle.

Well, this is more of an ideal preference. Obviously there will always be situations where the rules don't directly model in-game processes, because it's a game and that's not always practical. The preference is to minimize those situations.

I don't speak for others, but my position is that ultimate cause and effect are irrelevant to the mechanical task being accomplished, and that's what I'm concerned about here: how a specific action is represented in game. Clearly (to me anyway), you prefer to bundle intent into your resolution...

This is all preference anyway. I don't see how my comments about how I like to play are a problem for you, or why I can't describe the kind of play I like and why without being told my rhetoric attacks your position. I'm not trying to say anyone's play is wrong for them, or doesn't really exist...

They absolutely are, but I'm focusing on the sim side because that matters more to me, especially as far as mechanics are concerned.

From a personal, in my game where it matters perspective, I'm afraid it is.

I've never been in a situation where I actively wanted the truth of the fiction to be less true, in the sense that I didn't find it fun.

Agreed. Best to avoid that temptation altogether. I think it's a shame that we have a "#1" like Hasbro/WotC at all. That degree of influence over the hobby space IMO is not a good thing.

You folks seem to really like to make denigrating comments about trad play philosophies in the course of "proving your point". Dont see much of that on this side.

Well, the only reason there would be a causal relationship would be because it is assumed you would have rescued the people who would otherwise burn (if of course saving them is even a possibility). So it seems like the two events are unconnected, or they are connected and you are responsible.

Or at your own table via homebrew if needed. No filing necessary.

I definitely was, like the Level Up countdown you used as an example.