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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 1985903" data-attributes="member: 7635">I guess it depends also on how much of that stuff you REALLY care about...Take the Minotaur in the above. While an extreme example, it highlights the old Simulation-vs-game arguement. A simulationist (someone who builds his world with a stunning internal logic) would WANT to know how a minotaur survives in a 10 x 10 room, why he has no formal alliance with the orcs next door, and where he gets his food froom.The Gamer wants to know how many XP he was worth and what loot he's carrying on his corpse. The good news IS that its not either/or. Most Players are willing to gloss over the minotaur's lair in order to reach the more important story elements of the tomb. Just like most DMs don't slavishly monitor food consumption and waste removal of PCs. As long as it is reasonable the minotaur has some source of food (goblins, PCs, whatever) and reasonable access to beyond his 10 x 10 room (such as not being locked in there) then we gleefully hack through the challenge for gold and XP while wondering who the BBEG is what his evil plans are...Katana and trenchcoat are optional, of course.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>