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It was a more general point, though I think there's very few combat systems of any detail that don't produce some degree of that. Its...

I'm just saying that its obvious you're excluding some things, and honestly, I seriously doubt you even consider the ones off the...

I'm not going to speak for Micah, but I will note there are games that explicitly have falls as the consequence of fumbles. They may or...

You're taking that passage a bit out of context. There's a house that the PC is sneaking into. You, as the GM, have an idea of who or...

Sometimes they have to as a price of the abstraction. As in, to represent a non-metagame element, you still need to think in metagame...

Yet you were still talking about it in the context of addressing a non-combat event. So while I agree the post you were responding to...

So are you rolling for coronaries every time someone gets stressed? After all, that's happened to young athletes on occasion. So I'm...

That seems a little disingenuous, given how different from most other kinds of resolution combat is in almost all trad games. This is...

This is one of those oh-so-very-rare instances where I find myself agreeing with @pemerton. The way WotC-era initiative works is very...

Almost any abstraction can do this to some extent, depending on other system features.

Well, relatively long turn based combat. Once you start getting to relatively short time frames and account for reaction time and the...

Some day I will write something up on how it is all sigma fields and Bayesian probability, and what each person is comfortable with. Maybe.

I fully accept your preferences. What personally bothers me is the way you leap to conclusions about how these techniques are used in...

I'll point out people have heart attacks and die, but we don't normally do that in a game. So its not a question of "does it happen"...

I'm pretty sure we've been told that it shouldn't happen. If it can't happen, then there wouldn't be lengthy essays and articles about...