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Yeah, I wouldn't call that simulation. By that metric almost anything can be simulation. Nor would I link immersion and simulation in such a direct way. Simulations might feel immersive to some people, but whether they do or don't has no bearing on their status as a simulation.

That seems unlikely. Not a wyvern perhaps. But other things. IIRC the rune thing was not Burning Wheel, but do you think it could work roughly similarly in BW?

Ideally for whom? Not for me. I love world building as a GM, and I don't particularly feel I need help with it, but as player I like exploring what someone else has created. I am not looking for helping the GM to do their job. Again, other approaches are perfectly valid, but not everyone needs...

Yet many setting that originated in novel or films have been successfully used in gaming. Though I actually agree with you somewhat. There are different considerations, I just don't think these lead to game world needing to be "anything goes." It just means it needs to be intractable and able to...

I'm sorry, but to me this comes across as some weird persecution complex. No one in this thread has singled out dragonborn or even mentioned them besides you. I don't think elves or dragonborn are any different in this regard. Nor I expect any significant push back from excluding either. I'm...

Well, not by me. I do not suspect misbehaviour from my players. All these conflicts you imagine, just do not happen. I have friends, I ask them to play game in a world I made, they make characters suitable to the world and we play and have fun. So what? It is still not suitable for every...

Because it is relatively popular game so a lot of people actually have some idea of how it plays. You apparently not among them. No, magical pixies is not valid justification, as none of the stats used to derive the odds include pixie protection among them. Also, we have "any idea" as we know...

Mate! You are the one who has been filling this thread with pages of hysterical rants about tyrannical straw GMs!

I disagree then. Granted, D&D is a toolkit of far more limited in its scope than GURPS, but it is one nevertheless. It does not have bespoke world connected to it. Many official ones have been published over the years, and people have always been encouraged to build their own. Not every world...

What is? You think that a Regency romance game using GURPS must allow mechas or you don't?

That would indeed be simulationistic, if you used these things to derive odds of things related to them but often you don't. There are some guidelines for DCs, but this is an area where I wish there were a lot more examples (and I have said this often.) I have my own guidelines to keep things...

No. D&D is just a game system, which can be used to represent many different worlds. Not every world needs to include everything the game has rules for, any more than a Regency romance game using GURPS needs to include mechas because GURPS has rules for them.

But this is just about the level of detail. D&D AC does actually provide some information how it prevents attacks from hitting, it is due some combination of armour deflection, parrying and dodging. Is this less detail than knowing that the attack was specifically dodged? Yes. Is it still "any...

Player decided it, though the mechanics decided who got to decide. On the other hand if there was some "mysterious runes chart" one would roll on based on rules dictates, then it would be fully decided by the mechanics.

Also, at least to me, most of that world building world is not about the system. It is about the fiction, coming up with places, people cultures, organisations, drawing maps and concept art etc etc. Furthermore, one thing where I feel playing 5e helps in this (and one of the main reasons I...

I don't think the player wanting to ignore the setting and/or campaign concept is "a mild request." People who want to play wookiee jedi is a Star Trek game are a problem, as it tells me they are not interested in playing a Star Trek game in the first place, so this will be just first of the...

I don't see a significant difference here, nor with these and 5e. In all cases we have numerical measure of diegetic character capability and numerical measure of diegetic challenge of the task, and from these we draw the odds of success. Granted, I agree with you that in 4e the half level bonus...

What is incoherent how you deem this criteria to be satisfied. You made statements about what is simulation and what is not. You think RQ is one and D&D isn't. Yet the skill systems in both games work in very similar manner. (Granted, I have not played RQ in decades, but I remember the basics.)

This is the exact reason my world now has sand skiff riding desert pirates!

We have not accepted that, nor are D&D mechanics like that. It is merely something you keep repeating, as is your whole incoherent definition of simulation. Mechanics of D&D (and many other games) use values which represent the character's competence in given area (a diegetic quality) and a DC...