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exactly the post I was trying to remember when talking about spellswords :)

Those posts are also cool in that defining games as a set of rules that operate on things within it is a really neat mental model -- the program should basically look like a DnD rulebook, with statblocks and all.



Yeah, it's definitely among my favorite essays. Btw, your explanation was excellent as well!




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