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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9589996" data-attributes="member: 86653">Exactly. It’s a mistake to think you can’t have simulation without heaps of codified rules. Each of us is walking around with a lifetime of experience with the real world. (Well, nowadays there’s fewer and fewer people engaging with reality, but that’s another thread for another forum.) We can just as easily draw from that as anyone else. That it’s preemptively written down doesn’t make it somehow a better answer.What’s more the notion of needing consistency is wildly overblown. You almost never encounter exactly the same circumstances twice. If those differences in circumstance make a difference in the fiction, they should make a difference in the mechanics. “But last time it was a 3 to climb a wall, why is it a 4 this time?” Because these are different circumstances than those. People ignore that reality and say it’s a capricious referee instead.If you (general you, not the poster I’m quoting), refuse to trust the referee, that’s fine. Just say so. But again, no amount of rules can protect you from a bad referee.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9589996, member: 86653"] Exactly. It’s a mistake to think you can’t have simulation without heaps of codified rules. Each of us is walking around with a lifetime of experience with the real world. (Well, nowadays there’s fewer and fewer people engaging with reality, but that’s another thread for another forum.) We can just as easily draw from that as anyone else. That it’s preemptively written down doesn’t make it somehow a better answer. What’s more the notion of needing consistency is wildly overblown. You almost never encounter [I]exactly[/I] the same circumstances twice. If those differences in circumstance make a difference in the fiction, they should make a difference in the mechanics. “But last time it was a 3 to climb a wall, why is it a 4 this time?” Because these are different circumstances than those. People ignore that reality and say it’s a capricious referee instead. If you (general you, not the poster I’m quoting), refuse to trust the referee, that’s fine. Just say so. But again, no amount of rules can protect you from a bad referee. [/QUOTE]

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