A certain amount of histrionics is doubtless a necessary price for authentic role-playing, and within limits it should probably not be discouraged.
Quotes by Jon Peterson
There is a vast conceptual distance between a prediction and a simulation. A prediction will prove either right or wrong, but a simulation is neither, it is merely a fictional outcome which derives from a set of inputs that approximate, with a greater or lesser degree of realism, a targeted circumstance.
This is a very seductive approach; it is much easier to envision oneself as a real person in some other world than it is to believe that one is all of the German eastern front commanders.
[…] the microcosm of the game board, a simple model of real-world events which can be explored inconsequentially.
