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Even here, tensions can easily emerge. Part of what makes fencing what it is, is the nature of the human body. And also the nature of the sword. The bodies of mice have different properties from the bodies of humans. "Swords" the size of sewing pins will have different properties from actual...

Are you saying that you think I'm wrong about my experience of RPGing? Or that your experiences are different. The first I don't accept. But in respect of the second, obviously I defer to your account of your experiences.

And who is doing that? Who are you remonstrating with? Where have I ever suggested this? I don't even know what it would mean - as in, what would it mean for gaming culture to "suit me". What is an "unsuitable" gaming culture?

Because I am frustrated by being told that the play was wrong: The runes examples was not wrong from the perspective of the play of MHRP or a variant thereof. Nor was it wrong in general. And as I said, it makes no sense to say that "It was wrong from the perspective of D&D". If all you are...

I don't like this formulation at all. The GM is not an entertainer, a storyteller, etc - at least not in my experience of RPGing. The GM is a participant in a game, along with other participants. Whether the game is fun or not depends on the intersection between how it plays and the tastes of...

As far as I can tell, what's at stake is telling people who don't enjoy GM-driven RPGing (whether as players or GMs) that they have deviant or unreasonable tastes. Or are among the rare outliers who had "bad GMs:. The idea that someone might have had a good GM in a trad approach to play, and...

This claim isn't true at all, in my view. Trying to infer to social life from nothing but archaeological information is very fraught.

What percentage of people who play soccer do you think chose that because of a bad experience at a cricket club? What percentage of people who really enjoy backgammon do so because of a bad experience playing canasta? Completely bizarre questions!

And for someone who is reasonably well trained in the scholarly study and analysis of human cultures, this often produces utterly implausible and ridiculous fiction.

And when I played in a club environment, I recruited players who were fed up with GM authority abuse. There were plenty of them about.

In the passage you quote, @Micah Sweet refers to for me and my table. Which does not address what I asked, which was How can an episode of play of Marvel Heroic RP be wrong from the perspective of D&D?

How can an episode of play of Marvel Heroic RP be wrong from the perspective of D&D? That doesn't make any sense to me! That would be like me telling you you're GMing D&D wrong because you're not calling for Burning Wheel-style blind declarations in combat.

@Hussar didn't say that simulationist mechanics must produce results in the way that they are produced in the imaginary world. He did say that, to count as simulationist, mechanics must yield some sort of answer as to what the process was, in the imaginary world, that produced the result. I...

Every RPG system that isn't terrible produces results consistent with the imagined world. But that doesn't mean they are all simulationist in their orientation, does it?

I don't think this is really consistent with a simulationist approach, is it? Or the idea that we should avoid abstractions that are at odds with "diegesis".

How is that any different from the startled cook? Instead of a cook in the kitchen, we have limbs of trees that bend and break in just the right way.

Quantum weak spots! Quantum aiming! I mean, we already resolved the hit with the roll to hit. Why are we now reading the damage roll back into the prior determination of hit or miss?

OK? But if you give Batman damage reduction or a dragon's worth of hit points, that's not "diegetic". And if you don't give Batman something like that, then you don't get "action movie physics". The point is: in the fiction, Batman doesn't know that a single person with a gun can't kill him...

Right. The idea that because a poster argues that hp aren't a simulationist mechanic, they don't like them (or are criticising them) is quite bizarre.

Wearing heavy armour helps you dodge! Being super-buff like a dragon or T-Rex helps you dodge! it's dodging all the way down.