Recent content by FrogReaver

And this highlights the problem. You highlight a person calling his GM overall good with a single situation complained about as evidence of a bad GM. If that’s the criteria there are no good GMs.

I didn’t know you were a prophet ;)

I would push back a little here. I think at times for certain groups they certainly can and are, but even in those it’s not okay 100% of the time all the time. Maybe 1% of the time or something. I think maybe also the question of whether prep can be off piste. I notice sometimes prep is...

Do narrativist games simulate?

I’ve got a love hate relationship with them. Tactically they are fun, but I dislike them being tied to a particular weapon type.

It seems apparent to me this is just reframing the whole, ‘if it’s simulation it must be perfect argument’ into different words.

That’s fair. Then I think we agree.

And yet no one suggests the simulations are perfect. I can see how that would be a ‘problem’ if they did. But they don’t, so?

Two things. 1) I wasn’t responding to your post. 2) I don’t see a heck of alot of difference in those things. Summing them both up as hitpoints seems to be proper language to me.

I think this ignores the inherent ongoing social convergence and expertise expansion that occurs in a prolonged campaign over multiple sessions with the same individuals who are free to leave at anytime.

Yea. That would be the difference. I think one can have a subconscious agenda so no forethought is needed.

I think it depends on what one believes hp represent and/or if the dm has provided some narration that overrides that representation. Which is one reason hp is such a terrible example. There’s far to many divergent underlying assumptions about it.

Do you agree it’s not a primary agenda?

Even then, what specifically they find fun is going to form an agenda, unless they find all things equally fun which would be a bit odd. But at this point we are getting almost exclusively into the domain of psychology.

You won’t like it, but the answer is almost surely a no ;)