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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8632665" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>Well, I'd only really be able to illustrate my own, and I'm not sure I could tease apart how I go about it enough to be illustrative.  Since I'd characterize my own stuff as Gamist/Dramatist with a bit of Simulationist as an afterthought (mostly because I end up finding some things that are unnecessarily counterfactuals for the real world jarring--note the qualification there, however).  In most cases its focusing the more Game elements on certain specific layers (combat almost always, and sometimes things like settlement management or the like; in a few campaigns where it was particularly relevant, research or investigation) but informing it by Dramatist needs (including hard-genre emulation, where you don't want the gamist elements to violate the genre too much, so you set things up so they're in agreement--I've been doing that for a very long time since I did work on an early superhero game and realized that if you didn't watch it, they'd be pulling in opposite directions).  The best example I could probably give would be the design work I did on the latter, though I'm sure someone will come along to tell me that's not what I was doing if I detail it.</p></blockquote><p></p>