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It would be a tautology if I hadn't presented examples of what it represents, certainly.

Yes, damage depletes your luck, skill, heroic fortitude, courage, passion, power of friendship, determination, conveniently stashed...

The thing they represent in the fiction is damage. How they work in the simulation depends entirely on how we choose to construct our...

What do you mean? They represent how much damage you can take. Right, a dragon is an element instantiated by the rules. The rules tell...

The character's hit points simulate how much punishment he can take, and the falling damage rules simulate damage from impact. It...

If the character has more than 120 hit points, then it is realistic. Realistic doesn't refer to the real world. If our hypothetical GM...

That...or really the exact inverse of that...is what I was getting at in my last post. It's not trying to copy the real world, it's...

Simulation seems to be something attempting to copy the real world. A flight simulator or golf simulator attempts to copy the real...

A couple very popular examples are Deus Ex and Dishonored. Skyrim is often considered close to an ImSim, moreso than Fallout 4, but many...

Go, Charmander! Use larceny!

Right, of course! I can't believe I didn't think of that one.

I don't understand "plus thread". Is the default behavior here to assume that everyone has the same opinion about the thread topic?

Unless we're playing a game that isn't mindlessly copying the imaginations of other people, of course.

The fighter removes them with his blade or his hands. The wizard removes them with magic. The druid removes them with his forest...