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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9343511" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, AFAIK this post is in response to my post which ultimately starts with something I said, so I think the takeaway in this case is mine to name! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think that's probably true beyond a certain point.I don't agree. I don't think it would garner any more interest than other RPGs, except on the basis of its other attributes. I mean, it would likely more appeal to people who like such games, but I think they'd as likely pick any game that was otherwise pleasing to them and passed a certain threshold of authenticity.I am not convinced we CAN glean that, actually. As I said, if there was a preference for more realism, then wouldn't games, however gradually become more and more perfect in that dimension? There would be a focus on honing their realism/authenticity and new clever tricks would gradually emerge which pushed that boundary of 'playable yet authentic'.And yet, what is the general trend, seemingly, in RPGs in actuality. It seems to me it is towards somewhat more abstract systems that focus more on 'story concerns', either in terms of Story Now Narrativist play being optimized for, or maybe neo-trad, etc. The ENTIRE thrust of RPG design in the last 30 years seems almost entirely in that direction -granted with an ever growing list of tweaked versions of throw dice to see what happens going basically in random directions at the same time. Another major branch of RPG evolution has occupied itself almost entirely with SHEDDING any pretense of realism/authenticity/simulation whatsoever, stripping the rules down to a bare minimum framework of combat and exploration (OSR). Though again, I wouldn't claim all OSR games did much of the stripping down. Some of the proponents of minimalism have gone even further into micro games, or 'no rules at all' FKR, like Cthulhu Dark, which is barely a game at all (arguably isn't one until you figure out how you want to play it).No, I see no sign that there is any impetus or overall preference for realism at all. Just some people who have a higher minimum threshold for what amount of it must exist, but nothing more than that.</blockquote>

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