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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8419032" data-attributes="member: 7028554">[USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER] As much as I agree with your attempts to frame various mechanics within different examples and genres of fiction, I think there are a lot of gamers who, whether they admit it or not, aren't interested in RPGs generating or explaining those types of experiences. In most systems, including 5e, combat doesn't have a sense of narrative momentum, and it almost never winds up looking or feeling like the fights we tend to love in fiction. And games like D&D create their own unique genre, in a sense, by having groups of adventurers who tend to be remarkably coordinated in their tactics, immune to fear (unless a power hits them, which reads and feels like getting hit by a fear laser, not by a human response to danger), and they often have a combat healer, something that, to my recollection, exists nowhere outside of TTRPGs and video games.So the Tolkien connections, the references to epic poems, I totally get them...but I don't think D&D is interested in or really capable of pulling any of that off. Not 5e, at least, which generates a very specific kind of experience, but not one that (to me) resembles anything other than exactly what it is.</blockquote>