Hussar
Legend
Let’s be honest here. Nothing in DnD makes narrative sense if you start picking at it. Character stats make no sense. Nothing does.
For a given value of “makes sense”.
However @Umbran has the right of it. Mechanics are an abstraction. They have always been an abstraction. You use that abstraction to create the narrative.
At no point in DnD’s history do the mechanics define the narrative. It’s always back filling after the resolution and whatever narrative the group is happy with is the “correct” narrative.
For a given value of “makes sense”.
However @Umbran has the right of it. Mechanics are an abstraction. They have always been an abstraction. You use that abstraction to create the narrative.
At no point in DnD’s history do the mechanics define the narrative. It’s always back filling after the resolution and whatever narrative the group is happy with is the “correct” narrative.