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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4109060" data-attributes="member: 40961">A gamist plays the game as a series of tactical battles of precisely balanced odds, strung together with no story whatsoever, and for the sake of player characters who are nothing more than faceless statblocks.  Obviously he is inferior to me.A simulationist writes in his DM notes that Bal-Shuggoth, the elder god of death, death, madness, and more death, secretly slumbers in the hills to the north of town.  Then he places first level PCs in the town, gives them no directions, and when they wander north he has Bal-Shuggoth devour them all.  When the PCs object, he explains that he is merely running the gameworld as written, and he's not going to change the gameworld just for them like some low down dirty gamist.  He's cleary inferior to me as well.The narrativist is just trying to create a flashy story, so he changes rules mid fight in order to let cool things happen, or to ensure that the fight's outcome is the sort of thing he's looking for.  He may go whole sessions without combat if that's what the story requires.  Obviously his game is boring and inferior to mine.Which one am I?  Whatever the person I'm arguing with isn't, of course.</blockquote>