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I've got a couple of different horde rulesets that I like to use for large mobs. They work pretty well.

You mean the strawman that no one here has claimed? I mean, good grief, the other reaction is far, far stronger. I made the mistake of...

No, I keep trying to prove that the point you are making is inconsistent. Which it is. After all, is your doctor stronger/tougher than...

Your statblock is not absolute in any real way. It changes all the time. There's an entire leveling system that changes your statblock...

You'll obviously get no argument from me on that score. :D The truly funny thing is, the whole "D&D is simulationist" schtick only...

See, but that's the thing. Is that a design goal for simulation? If entities in the game should have a consistent mechanical...

There is no such thing for Fighters. They just do get better at things because the rules say so. You are now inventing post hoc...

I'm saying its not really good at any one thing, because it tries to do too many, and is carrying decades old baggage in doing most of...

Which literally no one has actually stated here.

Right, we're leaving out steps. The proposed structure is creative agenda->design goal->mechanic. Pointing out a mechanic doesn't serve...

"Not become a slog" doesn't really fit into the creative agenda buckets, as @Pedantic mentioned before. It's more akin to bounded...

No. The truth is that some of us recognize the limitations of a given system and don't pretend otherwise. That some other systems...

Doing the "well" is a matter of preference and opinion. We can be objective about certain things like how detailed or abstract rules...

Except in 4e, that isn't true. You can't automatically extract the meaning out of any one game mechanic and apply it more broadly to a...

D&D, being the first, is thus based on the least learning about how to do simulation in a role playing game. The fact it does it poorly...