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Falls, farm animals, animal attack. I've seen plenty of injuries that were bad without costing the limb or would cause a life-long impairment in the timeframe of the game's implied setting.

It is rather hard to shout realism at someone trying to pretend they're an elf who made a deal with Titania so they can wear armor made of popsicles. Then why can't WotC?

It does mean that simulationist play has to make allowances for the fact that it's being applied to a game and storytelling engine and trying to couch a dislike for narrativist play as being on the side of 'logic' or 'verisimilitude' is a losing gambit. Especially since verisimilitude as a term...

"Oh no, pleasure!" ~ D&D fandom's reaction to any art these days. It's a weekend romp through ironic hell with some Hammer Horror pastiche or another just like it always was. I doubt the Dark Powers would have fun pulling in the grimdork sad sacks people are demanding all Ravenloft kidnappees be.

Everyone younger than 60 is a millennial these days. At least for baseless complaint or insult purposes. No one bothered to learn the zoomer or gen alphas' names.

I'm pretty certain that most household tool accidents don't result in an amputation. They're not working with Black and Decker here.

From the player side of things, once I'm being asked to track encumbrance for my coins, I'm just buying gems anyway. Also, in this new concept are platinum pieces still a thing?

It's been decades since leveling leveled what you actually used to get the XP. So killing a bunch of dudes would in a rules-as-physics world male you better at playing board games and picking locks. Also, since XP is only awarded for challenges by the DM, the DM would need to actively award XP...

I mean, if someone really rich wanted to deal with the pain and technical woes that come with dealing with non-movie nuclear weapons, I have zero doubts they could get one inside a month.

Leveling. Butchers don't get super swole for killing a bunch of cows that are definitely more powerful than them, nor do big game hunters level off shooting the most badass animals in the world. So the backbone of the game is based entirely in the meta and ignores any in-universe implications...

Do you know how long it takes in every discussion of Greyhawk for the fans to tell you what's awesome about the setting? It's like page after page of how it's generic and it's humanocentric and how it lets you disallow everything other people find interesting and then, only then, after you wake...

but they do sometimes get to be good at the thing they focused on, right? Their decisions aren't just instantly and constantly negated?

D&D has been defined by being disallowed from moving on.

Okay, so character rules and creation exists in the meta, where the setting never interacts with it. No logical issues the. Good news! The PCs aren't generating the same effects. No verisimilitude issues based on this highly anomalous and very tailored definition of verisimilitude. As you...

This says to define what you think 'logic' or 'verisimilitude' are beyond the 'I don't like it' aspect. 'I don't like narrative approaches to storytelling' says nothing about the point you're arguing from.

Okay, so define 'logic' and 'verisimilitude'. The game is a game and necessarily has an in-universe side and a meta side. Unless the characters are aware that all of their choices are controlled by extra dimensional beings, one has to accept that at the very least. And to even operate the...

It's been part of the game for almost two decades now. I haven't seen it was actually part of the game at any point aside from 3e where it became a problem for a lot of people real fast.

The world in-universe is unaware of the rules used to construct the PCs.

I'd love to see rogues at least also get speed bonuses.

It's usually directed to people who have repeatedly said that's not the point to no avail though, constantly inundating them with explicitly unwanted 'advice'.