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The way I see it, the former is a fairly direct prerequisite for the latter. In some cases - mostly to do with things like...

I know that, and have since fairly early grade school. My point is that for the purposes of simulating and narrating in-setting physics...

Ditto, ditto, and ditto re trying for a maritime campaign. Who put this book out? And how did I miss it at the time? :)

"Poor helpless kitten" my arse - that thing's the most dangerous monster in the room, if not the whole dungeon! :)

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...

Which has the (probably intentional - sigh) side effect of giving the PCs free rein to wallow around in all sorts of awful places...

You don't want disease to be curable?

I thought you still had to be 9th-level to cast 5th-level spells? And that's a pretty serious hammer to disease-curing; Cure Disease...

The main limit is that there's only so many 3rd-plus level Clerics of which not all are stay-at-home healing types, and they each only...

Some folks may be mistaking the mechanics for the simulation. The actual simulation is the result. Preferences that get in the way of...

You avoid abstractions when it can be practically done. My goodness, this is just the 100% realism straw man all over again. No...

Thing is, the player is equally bound by those same rules. If a player rolls a 1 to hit, she can't ignore that roll and say her...

(Emphasis mine.) Do you mean that the game system must not only produce results consistent with the imagined world, but must do so in a...

If I take a brick and a feather upstairs and drop them out the window over and over again, it's almost a dead-shot certainty the brick...