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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6409540" data-attributes="member: 2525">You are confusing "Having RAW" and "Having a well researched, really good RAW".  You almost never get the later.  And given that, merely having RAW gets you nothing in this category of concerns.For instance, you seem to imagine simply doing a "smigeon" of research on the matter of "tracking over cobblestones is more difficult than hearing a noise through the ground from ten miles away." would yield a "good" and "well researched" RAW.  To me, this statement has no basis in reality.  In fact, I find it hard to take such a claim seriously.  No "smigeon" of research in such an esoteric subject will yield good results.  Better to spend your time giving people good guidelines to judge it themselves should the topic ever (on very rare occasion) come up.  I really REALLY do not want rules writers to be researching that level of minutia just to put out a game.Same goes for your other highly useless factoids.  This is not a medieval fantasy simulation game - we don't need a bunch of research on the ability to swim in armor or ability of a katana to cut through a tank.</blockquote>