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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 6353801" data-attributes="member: 6688277">I'm not going to debate whether D&D is or isn't for simulation-style games, I will probably get tripped up in the theory and various definitions. I will answer, that I use D&D instead of RM for world simulation due to the preference for lighter rules. I have played RM (a few months), and my experience from it was that it was a rules heavy game. Perhaps my impression was wrong - I was a lot younger.I will agree the granularity of detail makes the RM engine better for simulation-style gaming, but that does not mean that D&D is all the way on the other side. Like someone said earlier which I tend to agree with, its objective-based simulation.Of course various versions of D&D, as discussed, catered more/less to a greater detail for simulation within the system. I don't think one needs to have pages & pages of tables for simulation. A few examples or pointers in the DMG would be enough to point a DM in the right direction to produce the desired effects for a sim approach to an action. D&D, IMO, is the rules-light version of sim - generally for the vast majority of us, I imagine its easier to DM.</blockquote>