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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8406909" data-attributes="member: 177">An ironic turn of phrase in this context.&nbsp; It is a fantasy entertainment.&nbsp; There's very little &quot;real&quot; about it.So, the system does create fiction the players can use to make decisions, if used as designed.&nbsp; It is hardly a &quot;real issue&quot; for the system if the player wants it to do so, but insists on not using it as designed. It is fine if you want to view combat action as being simultaneous!&nbsp; I mean, when people put on armor and hit each other, their actions do not usually happen simultaneously.&nbsp; There generally ends up being a bit of time ordering in it all, but whatever - it is fine to want a system to do the thing you want it to do.&nbsp; But is not a &quot;real issue&quot; with any particular system if it does not... any more than it is a real issue with your dishwasher that it is not an oven. Now, to really torture the heck out of that metaphor - you know, you can cook in a dishwasher.&nbsp; I've actually done it - some fish, lemon slices, dill, and a bit of salt, wrapped in tightly sealed foil, can actually work up well in a dishwasher.&nbsp; But you can't really blame the dishwasher if the process is kind of awkward or failure prone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8406909, member: 177"] An ironic turn of phrase in this context. It is a fantasy entertainment. There's very little "real" about it. So, the system does create fiction the players can use to make decisions, if used as designed. It is hardly a "real issue" for the system if the player wants it to do so, but insists on not using it as designed. It is fine if you want to view combat action as being simultaneous! I mean, when people put on armor and hit each other, their actions do not usually happen simultaneously. There generally ends up being a bit of time ordering in it all, but whatever - it is fine to want a system to do the thing you want it to do. But is not a "real issue" with any particular system if it does not... any more than it is a real issue with your dishwasher that it is not an oven. Now, to really [I]torture the heck[/I] out of that metaphor - you know, you can cook in a dishwasher. I've actually done it - some fish, lemon slices, dill, and a bit of salt, wrapped in [I]tightly[/I] sealed foil, can actually work up well in a dishwasher. But you can't really blame the dishwasher if the process is kind of awkward or failure prone. [/QUOTE]

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