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The damage caused by a Mind Flayer still exists, only it's internal and thus not visible to an observer. The damage caused by a Red...

The game could use more meat-grinder in its theme, even without it becoming primary. More to the point, death-spiral mechanics would...

IMO death spirals should very much be a thing. The most important hit point to preserve shouldn't be the last one you lose, it should...

Yet when NPC adventurers of the same capabilities are the PCs' foes those NPCs should be easy to kill? No. What works for one works...

The problem isn't that you're quoting the rules and using them to defend your position. The problem is that the rules you're quoting...

I think dungeons should be designed on what makes the most sense on how to build the dungeon (why would the builders make this hallway...

Outside of rpg context, a simulation is a test engine for determining outcomes for certain sets of parameters based on observed...

In specific, perhaps not from this exact thing (though maybe, depending how a GM presents things). In aggregate, yes absolutely: the...

That, or some sort of wound-vitality or body-fatigue points system where your wound/body points (everyone has these) are mostly meat and...

To make it work, certain attacks need to be able to bypass hit points and go direct to some other effect. Example: slitting the throat...

I think it is useful to remember George Box when thinking about simulation: “all models are wrong, some are useful”. It’s often applied...

Yeah. In my game hit points are there unless you act in a suicidal manner. If you fall 100 feet and have 50 hit points, you might not...

I'm tempted to say that a simulation mechanic is more of an underlying feature of the setting independent of whatever abstractions might...

This... ...and this... ...only serve to tell me that the "Fantasy Combat" system being used is in serious need of repair.

In LARP combat, there are casters and archers. I've totally broke rank with an ongoing melee opponent to run 30' and smack an archer...