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Absolutely. On a related note, did you ever read Delta's series of articles on archery in D&D, where he tries to apply some good real world math and stats? https://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2011/03/basic-d-on-archery.html

May be tangential and orthogonal to what you want, but I'm intrigued by the concept of achieving greater realism through greater abstraction, as opposed to greater granularity: https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/04/injury-and-abstract-combat-round.html

This reminds me of the weirdly baroque initiative for OD&D article Gygax had in The Strategic Review where he goes into speed of movement in plate armor vs. unarmored Conan-types, and makes it so that the latter is better at closing the distance to and curb-stomping an M-U trying to Lightning...

Eric's Grandma warning, language:

I had occasion again this week to trot out my most used quote from him. It's apropos absurdly often in the last decades or so, especially in reference to certain (social and other) media figures. “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They...

Ohh, that old John Wick thing. Ugh.

You have this a bit backwards. Those jurisdictions and "reasonable person" standards are common, but warning labels largely get instituted because of exceptional cases, or exceptional laws in important markets (like California's Prop 65).

Definitely. Though with the smaller absolute values I'm usually dealing with in OSR, the math will still be pretty quick if they drop the ball on that.

Got in last night for a consecutive session but a little lighter. Flat smith machine barbell bench four sets + drop sets, lat pulldowns the same, seated dumbbell lateral raises three & drops. I think I actually feel my chest a little this morning, which is rare. It always lags/virtually never...

By mentioning wands, are you thinking about 3e? Potions and scrolls and prepared healing spells: Mostly outside, with rare emergency use of a bigger potion (Extra Healing or similar) or more powerful healing spell (Cure Serious or equivalent) in combat if a front-liner is really getting...

There's definitely some appeal to that simplification, but it wouldn't be achieving the same effect. It's not exactly going to "swamp" the dice, at least not until higher levels. It really comes down to how good you want the healing to be. Tying what to hit dice? Are you talking about 5E now...

@Nikosandros can you give any more details? I still don't have WWN and just heard about that mechanic this week.

Interesting. I wouldn't think this would be a major issue in TSR editions or clones of same simply because there isn't that much healing available in the first place. It's true that Cure Light would be much stronger, and maybe that would be a real problem in AD&D since 1e and 2e give bonus...

No, if I was reinventing healing surges there'd be a limit on them*. You did see where I mentioned 4E Healing Surges, right? I did hear recently that Worlds Without Number limits healing by having a Stress stat which you accumulate as you receive healing, and that you can only clear out your...

..I was just going to reply to Mad Jack with a remark about handedness and how for some reason I'm lefty just for throwing frisbees. But now I'm just pausing and taking a couple of deep breaths. Hang in there.

While it's a vivid cautionary example, don't the same concerns and cautions here apply broadly to internet search tools like Google? Are LLMs more worrisome because they involve less work sorting through results, and thus fewer obvious points for the user to read critically and assess the sources?

One of the perennial issues I've had with D&D is how Fighters and other high-HP characters take longer and more resources to heal up than do M-Us and other low-HP characters. We squint past it, but it seems more plausible and intuitive that for any given injury (whether actual/physical, or...