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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8671761" data-attributes="member: 7808">Simulation is one of the foundations on which all RPGs are based, even if people don't like to admit it.  A basic connection to the real world is the basis for all consistency and communication.   It doesn't matter if it's a game about powerful wizards or mice that fight like knights, when you sit down and learn about a TTRPG for the first time, you come to the table with certain expectations about how the world works; those expectations are based on reality.  Every RPG is a simulationist RPG. Something like gravity exists and you don't have to worry about your character floating off the ground. Characters commuicate in a language that the player understands. When something hits something else, there is reaction. Nobody starts writing a TTRPG rulebook by completely redefining the entire world.</blockquote>