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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8399886" data-attributes="member: 6795602"><p>D&amp;D Combat is fictionless.&nbsp; But Frogreaver, &quot;What does that even mean?&quot;&nbsp; It means that D&amp;D combat is incapable of representing combat fiction the way we want to imagine it.&nbsp; The turn structure gets in the way.&nbsp; Instead of having the goblin and fighter charge each other and meet in the middle.&nbsp; Instead we have the fighter carefully plotting out his turn and being careful to only use enough movement so that the goblin in question will need to use it's action to dash to get to him.&nbsp; A wise tactical decision!&nbsp; But that tactical decision has no basis in the actual fiction.&nbsp; The fiction is just that the fighter and goblin charge each other and engage each other in melee combat - I mean no one imagines the fighter advances and then stops, and then the goblin advances and then stops... right?&nbsp; So this wise tactical decision is solely a reflection of 'metagaming the combat turns'.&nbsp; That bugs me.&nbsp; And it's probably going to continue to bug me as I don't really see a possible solution.&nbsp; But it would be really nice if for my combat decisions to be wise and tactical they could be based on the fiction instead of the turn structure.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 8399886, member: 6795602"] D&D Combat is fictionless. But Frogreaver, "What does that even mean?" It means that D&D combat is incapable of representing combat fiction the way we want to imagine it. The turn structure gets in the way. Instead of having the goblin and fighter charge each other and meet in the middle. Instead we have the fighter carefully plotting out his turn and being careful to only use enough movement so that the goblin in question will need to use it's action to dash to get to him. A wise tactical decision! But that tactical decision has no basis in the actual fiction. The fiction is just that the fighter and goblin charge each other and engage each other in melee combat - I mean no one imagines the fighter advances and then stops, and then the goblin advances and then stops... right? So this wise tactical decision is solely a reflection of 'metagaming the combat turns'. That bugs me. And it's probably going to continue to bug me as I don't really see a possible solution. But it would be really nice if for my combat decisions to be wise and tactical they could be based on the fiction instead of the turn structure. [/QUOTE]

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