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Well, no. Not "pulled out" - that would imply the overall focus is more broad, which it does not have to be. For example, at the end of their last campaign, they did some funky stuff with the gods. They could, for example, use a different ruleset (say, Daggerheart) to look at the impact of...

No it doesn't. D&D has worked with a multi-world and multiversal approach since the conception of a Prime Material Plane. Honestly, they don't even have to use the same ruleset to share a continuity and timeline.

The note that DIE is less about RPGs than it is about trauma is pretty darned relevant.

No it is not. DIE is a well-crafted comic, no question. But it is essential reading for RPG people in about the same way as being in the room during the reconstructive surgery after a Indy 500 crash and burn is essential for learning how to drive.

It is very difficult to evaluate that unless you say in what way they are "less good". A bit overstated. But the (English) Anarchy rules are up front about how they are rules-light, about getting you into a narrative, not a tactical game. The Kickstarter for Anarchy 2.0 supposedly launches...

Mod note: Look how many times this post refers to the other speaker, I steady of the topic. If the basic way to engage with this material is to impugn those who don't agree, that is time to stop. So, go back to the actual topic, or take a break. If you do not have it in you to take a break, a...

Note: M'Benga's daughter was in the smaller emergency medical transporter system, not the main system. And, presumably the data gets scrubbed now and then when you aren't hiding shenanigans. So, her trace is probably gone now.

D&D, being the first, is thus based on the least learning about how to do simulation in a role playing game. The fact it does it poorly should surprise nobody.

It isn't about exclusivity. It is about order of operations. The brain may not be making the maximal use of opposable thumbs, but he thumb may be for making maximal use of the brain. In great apes, the order may be the latter - we developed opposable thumbs only after we started using stone tools.

What part of "I am not going to get into..." failed to register?

Your particular desires really can't be something anyone but you can focus on in these discussions.

I am not going to get into a nitpicking argument about the details of definitions. We don't have so much as a good definition of "intelligence", much less any related terms.

Presumably, but the only real case we have, humans, eventually used intelligence so we avoid using our one clear biological strength. Aside from our brains, humans only really do one thing better than anything else on the planet - cover large distances on foot. We respect so called "cursorial...

Eh. That just means the people in the world don't know the physics and processes. There's nothing weird about that - most humans don't know the physics that drive their smartphones, much less the actually mysterious stuff.

Because that seems to be the main biological advantage of sentience - allowing one to ignore or work around biological limitations. Perhaps. I am merely positing that you have to go to some pretty great lengths to make that undeniably biological, as opposed to cultural.

Fair. I was speaking at that moment largely to the d20 rules engine, but this is a more general forum.

I have been leaning away from the level of crunch Level Up uses since ... the middle of the 3e era or so.

Simulation of a world with processes and physics that results in matching a genre is not cleanly separable from genre simulation.

I don't know that consistency is a goal here. I am not sure I care if someone else's take on lizardfolk matches mine, for instance. Right. So, koa-toa society will have to differ from human, due to the qualities of the water they live deep within (unless we do away with some of those issues...

As is usually the case, that depends on what you are simulating. If you are simulating most published fictions, even those not tied to RPGs include increased scope/risk, and attendant character power increase, as properties continue.