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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 5755002" data-attributes="member: 984">I concur with this -- familiarity facilitates immersion.  Once a system becomes learned, the other aspects we want out of it (story, fun, excitement) can come to the fore.  A dancer learning some new moves will be slow, awkward, halting;  once they know the moves they can flow, express themselves, and create art... and even improvise into new areas because they can use the dance (system) eloquently.  Another analogy for new game systems can be found for many people when our/their favourite software upgrades, and suddenly things are a bit different.  There can be cursing, acrimony, slowness, re-learning, trying to force fit what we know into the new 'paradigm', and then, magically, over time, the ease and speed returns and perhaps surpasses the original now that the new software and its features have been learned, integrated and exploited.And I need to spread XP around some more.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />  As for the article itself I was a bit surprised to hear Monte say that the roots of the game lie in simulationism, given the following quote from the 1e PHB:Not that I mind his phrase 'nod to realism', and even 'nod to fake realism' (ie, some of the arbitrary weapon damages), it's probably a good way to hold it in the mind as the game is designed...Must run, hopefully this doesn't seem too fragmentary of a thought...peace,Kannik</blockquote>

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