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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 3571215" data-attributes="member: 7240">Look: whether people like it or not, game rules are the physics of the world they are playing. Because all "physics" are are the rules of cause and effect in a world. That's what game rules are -- they define how cause and effect work in the universe. I don't know what your definition of physics is but I have the feeling it's a little different from mine.Like physics.Did I ask for that? No. All I said is the I personally find worlds that have two competing and contradictory sets of rules for cause and effect harm my suspension of disbelief but that other people don't and I'm cool with that.And frankly, the detail and specificity of most people's knowledge of D&D physics exceeds the detail and specificity of their knowledge of real world physics.Yes. But a game of chess models itself not a battle. The people I play chess with are not generating descriptions of battlefields complete with wounds, terrain, formations, commanders and troops and spinning this into a minute-by-minute narrative of the battle. But the people I play D&D with do. How would you feel if, instead of running combat on a miniatures board with pieces representing your characters and their adversaries, you just played chess against the DM every time combat started?</blockquote>