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Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen
You are perpetuating the extremely harmful myth that all roleplaying gaming campaigns are equally realistic!
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No. I am correcting the idea that
any roleplaying game can be substantially realistic.
Quasi-realistic, perhaps, but the presence of a human GM making arbitrary judgment calls means that "realism" will reflect that GM's biases and shortcomings.
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"Despite (GURPS) reputation for realism and popularity with simulationists, the numbers are and always have been assessed in the service of drama." -
Kromm
"(GURPS) isn't a game but a toolkit for building games, and the GM needs to use it intelligently" -
Kromm