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The other kind of "sim" in video games that I think maps better to TTRPG play are "immersive sims" -- games that give you as many options as possible within the context of the play space and don't require you solve things in any particular way.

Eberron would make a great basis for a show, although I would refer a Clone Wars esque animated series. Did they ever produce an Adventure Path for Eberron? I know there were a couple linked modules in 3.5 era, and there is an AL Eberron season or two, right?

I have started a simulation focused thread for those interested in discussing it further. https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-does-simulation-mean-to-you.716497/

FIRST: This is a + thread, meaning that as we discuss this, we all recognize that we can have differing opinions about what "simulation" means in the context of TTRPGs. SECOND: As the thread title suggests this is about your personal definitions and opinions, not necessarily the S of GNS or...

Always us 2 or 3 tiered stepped save files so that you can at least o back.2 save slots if you run into real.trouble.

I don't think "simulation" must necessarily map to "low power." You can do a simulationist super hero game if you care about how powers interact with the world, and certainly many hard sci-fi games like Traveller have a simulationist bent even when talking about FTL drives and planet wrecking...

I'm pretty sure I was clear in the OP.

Is that a campaign length adventure?

The more people that enter the hobby, the more likely you are to find new players that share your preferences.

In my opinion, the real thing that makes RPGs RPGs isn't "storytelling" but agency -- the ability to do (or try) anything.

Just for fun: You are put in charge of adapting an existing campaign length adventure to prestige television for WotC. It can be any campaign from any edition, but it HAS to be a campaign not just a single adventure (so no Keep on the Borderlands or the orginal Ravenloft. Note that the "short"...

I have met many players who are not interested in "collaborative storytelling." Many want to play a game, plain and simple. I still think the hobby is for them.

Oh, look, it's on sale.

I am only generally aware of that games existence. I have never seen a copy.

The more AP I watch, the less it resembles actually playing an RPG.

The newest episode of the wonderful Our Fake History podcast is diving into hoe Buffalo Bill Cody "invented" the Old West by way of the stories he told about himself and his involvement in major events of the era. This got me to thinking about a potential from for an RPG: instead of the PCs...

The game part of the game is the majority of fun for me, so I prefer when players engage with that aspect as their primary focus.

While I appreciate moments of immersion that can spontaneously occur during play, I don't consider immersion necessary for a good game. I don't chase it and I can actually be annoyed when players value it above all else.

Yeah but if you roll a 1 you impale yourself while doing so.

Also a mace. For skeletons.