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But in the game world, if I want to be harder to hit, I put on heavy armor. The reason people don't like damage on a miss, is because...

I think there's a difference between "the simulation is abstracted" and "this simulation is providing results contrary to what I would...

I agree with this. This is probably true for all agendas, but particularly for sim play, you want your system truths and your setting...

What an odd misconception.

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...

If it's an abstraction, it's not a simulation. And hey, I never said I didn't like it, so you can turn that particular faucet right...

All I can think about this is, in a game in which a risk of death is a real and possible outcome, shouldn't this be such a situation in...

Wearing heavy armour helps you dodge! Being super-buff like a dragon or T-Rex helps you dodge! it's dodging all the way down.

Taking damage =/= dodge better.

The character in the fiction doesn't know that they are in no danger. The player in D&D does know that. Hence, not "diegetic". EDIT...

No it's an example of a rule that produces an outcome that may not be consistent with a Sim approach if that outcome is not one that 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 -...

Well yes clearly. See again Earthdawn. I've been in this situation though (a long time ago) with D&D The NPC had a crossbow pointed...

Yes. @Don Durito said as much. But what is that "diegetic" reason, in D&D play?

Is this supposed to me my fault? Or prove that I'm a "sim hater"? Or what? I'm not really sure what your goal is for this thread, if...