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Yes. It means if you want to play the game "correctly", you have to do it their way and abide by their constraints. There's no GM discretion on what to do, just on how. At least, that's how it's always read to me.

I have tables I can roll on to determine who's in a random house. They're neat.

That is an enormous difference to some of us. The big one, as it were.

These things happen in a fantasy world not running on narrative causality and the emotional lives of a handful of people. Sorry if that's a little harsh, but I'm getting very tired of this.

From what I'm hearing from some folks here, it applies to everyone whether they realize it or not.

All I'm saying is that I have more interest in what you're saying than who you're quoting.

Never mind. Thought you were someone else.

Often, yes.

For me, the story doesn't become a story until it's over.

And yet we don't all play games that demand death by narrative only. Weird.

Is there nothing else to do in this hypothetical game than climb a wall?

First of all, because I believe action in play is what makes PCs special, I'm perfectly fine with them having a boring life beforehand, so I disagree with you there. Secondly, I thought this was supposed to be personal opinion. What do the "vast majority" of games have to do with anything?

Somebody has to be the highest, I guess.

No. All movies should have spaceships. 😉

All of the below is IMO. I think PCs should fit within the statistical probability of whatever sort of being from which they sprang. They can and often are above average in some respect, but not egregiously so, and there should be every possibility that others from similar circumstances could...

I'm talking about the people who buy RPGs. The number who don't treat AI art as a morally bankrupt deal-breaker would perhaps surprise you. If you don't believe me, go look at how many Kickstarters with AI art have somehow nonetheless been funded.

I use Level Up's combat and character-building rules for my 5e play. They're not perfectly verisimilitudinous, but they get me near what I want, and I keep working to make them work better for me. Your opinion that that's not good enough to suit your personal definitions is just that, and I'd...

Who says any of us care what Luke Crane (or Gary Gygax, or Ron Edwards, or or or) have to say about this? We all make our own decisions and play our own games. I don't see how these constant quotes from the "giants" or RPGs do anything more than score debate points. I'd much rather talk about...

But only the first part of that passage supported their point! Why would they bring up the rest?

That's what I enjoy about this argument. You claim that I'm lying about my play and what I like because it doesn't match your vision of what those terms mean to you, you basically claim that a desire for simulation is wrong-headed at best, and yet you also posit that I'm the one launching...