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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9091603" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Naw. They are all just game mechanics. They are all, to a certain extent, abstractions and &quot;wrong.&quot;But different people have different threshholds as to how far they are willing to go in terms of those abstractions. Use the &quot;hit point&quot; example I used earlier. Hit points are an abstraction. For some people, going too far into that abstraction will become &quot;too much.&quot; But that's a subjective and personal preference. Arguing with that is the same as saying that they can't complain about anything in Star Wars or Star Trek because of the &quot;pew pew pew&quot; sounds. Heck, I have the same feelings when I see legal proceedings dramatized. I can take simplifications and dramatizations, but as soon as a show uses a real legal term incorrectly, it loses me completely and I'm out because I can't suspend disbelief anymore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9091603, member: 7023840"] Naw. They are all just game mechanics. They are all, to a certain extent, abstractions and "wrong." But different people have different threshholds as to how far they are willing to go in terms of those abstractions. Use the "hit point" example I used earlier. Hit points are an abstraction. For some people, going too far into that abstraction will become "too much." But that's a subjective and personal preference. Arguing with that is the same as saying that they can't complain about anything in Star Wars or Star Trek because of the "pew pew pew" sounds. Heck, I have the same feelings when I see legal proceedings dramatized. I can take simplifications and dramatizations, but as soon as a show uses a real legal term incorrectly, it loses me completely and I'm out because I can't suspend disbelief anymore. [/QUOTE]

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