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Nobody wants realistic healing though, damage can take forever to heal, or never.

That's "why" adventurers are rare, despite the fabulous riches they can achieve in a short amount of time. (a) You need to be a little...

Yeah I was going to say something along those lines. There's "realistic combat" and then there's "realistic consequences for behavior...

I think the balance point is how fast it is.

I mostly want movie combat. Realistic combat, would see most of the cast dead or invalided out before the end of season 1.

Most people that play D&D and have never seen real combat, movies are often the reference point for combat. Now of the people that want...

Curious: for those of you who want more realism (of the 'verisimilitude' sort) do you also want realism in movie combat?

I mean. I look at the modifiers and all I see is abstract fluffiness. They aren't simulating reality, they're emulating it - that is...

Huh, this response just had me off-the-cuff think about introducing a ranged damage modifier: "Disadvantage on Damage" at Long Range...

Mod Note: It is clear that both of you have forgotten (or chosen to forget) that making a discussion personal is apt to make problems...

I'm not sure if this is an adequate response. It's more just related thoughts that were on my mind as I was coming out of the gym. I...

You're making an assumption. In most games they don't get hit often. That's the point; they survive by avoiding the hit in the first...

If you want a simple system, you could have one d20 to-hit roll against Defense Class (no armor bonus), followed, on a successful hit...

There has never been a realistic pen and paper system. What people mistake for realism is process simulation where you go through the...

Well, I said it's not "complex" but it's "clunky". To me, complex means that it's difficult. Additions and substractions come naturally...