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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8400314" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I don't really think that what you've said indicates the combat rules are completely fiction-free.What you've showed is that the rules, as they exist, cannot handle certain common/realistic events that occur in actual combat, such as two opponents rushing at each other simultaneously. I think that such things can be modeled in a system with the right components, 5e just doesn't offer them. For example, 4e's [in]famous "Come and Get It" power for Fighters is a reasonable gloss of the "two opponents rush at each other at the same time" concept, and I'm sure there are other powers that fit even better. I'm sure there are also other examples of fiction that is hard to represent in 5e's specific way of abstracting combat.None of that leads to saying that 5e combat is totally absent of fiction. It just means that the space of fiction it easily maps is only part of the whole combat-fiction space, and in specific, that that easy mapping fails to cover parts you find important. Different folks will have different ideas of which elements of the combat-fiction space need easy mapping.</blockquote>