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I would point out that the examples I gave earlier were not about hit points. They were about game outcomes that occur within the fiction that are merely the result of the way that hit points work mechanically.

Well I was playing around with 3.5 the other day and I realised that if I gave a Mature Dragon one level of Abjurant Champion they would be a better swordsman than someone who had spent their entire life training with the sword due to the way base attack bonuses work. And of course a personal...

I don't really want to defend GNS but a big part of the idea of the creative agenda is that it can be implicit. I mean I think the theory suggests it's better if it's made explicit so that everyone is all on the same page, but the idea is that it's always there even if it's conflicted. It's...

Well yes.

I don't really see any need to add anything to what I already said.

I think it's more that you can say the insult your character spouts at the courtier directly to the GM, but he may have something to say* if you demonstrate your character's disembowelling cutlass move on his midsection. *Such as "Help!" or "Aaaah" or "Somebody call the Police".

Is there any reason someone couldn't just say "I prefer to resolve skills checks in a simulationist matter" regardless of what they might do in other aspects of the game?" I mean it makes sense to me, skills after all come from a more simulationist branch of the hobby originally and were...

It's also sometimes argued that D&D is a genre in itself, which could mean it is simulating itself. Where I balk however is at situations where the rules themselves possibly don't simulate the implied world. Do the people in the setting know that a high level Fighter in the setting has nothing...

Really GNS exists as a way to carve out space for narrativism. I've always thought of it as sort of like a weird manifesto presented as a taxonomy.

I'm not entirely clear what you mean here, but based on previous posts I will hazard a guess and say not necessarily. I think you can model process or outcome. D&D models falling perfectly fine (but abstractly) when it requires a damage roll, where it fails is in terms of outcome - where the...

I don't really want to get involved in this discussion but I do find the concept of simulationism used here somewhat odd. Ron Edwards always stated that Pendragon was a classic Sim game and it is neither complex nor has hit locations. You only need complexity if the thing you are trying to...

What is this? I did NOT "belittle" any one's opinion. Spare me your misplaced moralism. Whatever unstated implications you read into my posts are purely your responsibility. I said that WotC could not tell if people played the class options, not that no one did. If you're going to go aroud...

Yes. And they can't even tell if the people filling in surveys are actually trying out the new rules in play.

We don't need a special annotated rule book. This is just what the regular rule book should do. That was after all the intention wasn't it behind 5e, to put power back in the hands of the GM. So inform them about what the designers were thinking so they can make informed decisions. Explain...

I'm kind of reminded of the way Doctor Who fans insist that everything in the history of Doctor Who is canon for the tv series, even the bits that contradict other bits and the three different versions of Atlantis.

I admit I don't quite get this. So WotC are declaring that things that we all know never happened never happened? What practical effect does this have?

The realms is really beyond fixing at this point in any way beyond an individual table making their own declarations about where history stops.

I think it would probably be have been preferable to have retconned Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance rather than continually blowing them up.

That's circular though. People now want to define racism as a particular modern ideology. If we do that, then of course, by definition it wasn't present in the ancient world. But the average person would almost certainly look at the interaction between Severus and the Ethiopian soldier and...

Well I get that. But she's arguing that 1) we should study ancient attitudes about ethnicity and 2) they were not the same as modern ones. No one has disputed that.