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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9712733" data-attributes="member: 71699">To check understanding, will you call a game mechanic "simulative" that does not produce simulationist experiences in play?Why not? The quality a certain rules text has of predictably producing simulationist experiences identifies it as a simulationist mechanic. Otherwise, I must entertain the possibility of mechanics that I will identify as simulative that do not produce simulationist experiences in play. [USER=7025577]@Enrahim[/USER] pointed out that problem upthread.Designable features of rules should contribute to that quality; but I strongly suspect those assessments will stand only in relation to specific preferences regarding experiences, subjects and treatments. So I could say that certain features of a mechanic suit some preferred treatment in delivering target experiences of a subject. That would be useful, but it wouldn't enable me to make the broader claim that those features exclusively identify what is "simulationist" across all possible TTRPGs.</blockquote>