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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Random Bystander" data-source="post: 7689230" data-attributes="member: 6702095">Why Random Bystander likes rules-heavy, and simulationist:1) The setting derives simply from the rules in play. For example, if character is hit with a certain amount and type of damage, they are evidently hit with a certain amount of force and/or energy. Crafting rules, combined with item prices, trivially allow characters to craft items with no more input needed from the GM than a nod. And so on.2) Things work as generally expected because they work generally according to the rules observed every day, and in areas where fantastic abilities are added, they work according to clear and well-defined rules.3) Players can make plans, and expect those plans to work, based on a consistent, defined set of rules, with little to no clarification needed.4) Interactions between defined rules, characters, items, abilities, landscape, and so on, allow spontaneous action to arise. This is distinct from an action being deliberately written into the story, even if the idea that lead to the action was spontaneous.5) The sequence of events, when observed in hind-sight, has, and must have, an internal consistency and logic. The players' actions might not, but provided the rules as defined are adhered to, and the rules are reasonable, "fridge logic" and the like are greatly minimized.6) A wide variety of styles of play are typically supported by the rulebook, including "commoner" campaigns, by the simple state of being a simulationist rulebook.7) A good simulationist rulebook is no more prone to incongruous, needlessly divergent, out of place, nonsense, or error-prone rules than any other type of game. Indeed, the best simulationist rulesets are built around a simple, scalable core, and are less prone to those than most.8) Nothing prevents scaling back to play out a battle between two armies using whatever contest rules are provided; even to a simple opposed roll.9) It is easier to start with a lot of details, and scale back to few details, than to start with few details, and to zoom in to many details.If you have to be told that all statements in this post are my opinion, then I suppose you spend a lot of time being offended at most posts on the internet, an activity which seems truly bizarre. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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