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I tend to think a lot of the issues of this kind are that while NPCs don't have to follow the exact same rules as PCs they should at...

I mean this is the existing rules. This is explicitly how AC is produced already. Take your armour off and attacks that would have...

That's sort of already implied by the rules already though. There's just not much point spelling it out because it would be another...

Simulation of what? Action movies? Myths and Legends? Fantasy Novels? The Real World?

This is basically one of the many ways the 5e designers indicate they don’t want the game to be based around resource husbandry, but...

I don't know. I think that's undervaluing the level of work that went into creating Runequest.

That's only half of the issue though isn't it? You still have the player knowing that according to the rules of the game jumping off...

That is an impressive list of strawmen and complete mis statements of the problems. No wonder you feel attacked if you actually believe...

Well yes but I was using the example earlier of a rapier. You do need to distinguish between at least types of weapons. Yeah. Fantasy...

Yeah, there's some limitations based on few games really getting into weapon types. You can address that sort of problem but it usually...

Yes. In which you case you wouldn't attack the armoured part -in effect making a smaller viable target which is more difficult to hit...

To be fair armour and DR in many more abstract systems can feel just as odd. I mean if you stab someone wearing a breastplate with a...

Right. The idea that because a poster argues that hp aren't a simulationist mechanic, they don't like them (or are criticising them) is...

That sort of conflict can be fairly straightforwardly analysed: There's a reason that this is a known thing that happens in D&D play -...

Personally, I still do this; whatever system I use I extrapolate to be true within the setting. When I run high-level D&D, everyone is...