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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasamcarl" data-source="post: 1355849" data-attributes="member: 1251">To the degree that 3(.5) resembles a videogame, its a good thing. It means that (generally speaking) combat offers a balanced set of options. A simulationist approach would be incredibly difficult to balance. But to think that this somehow violates the intended flavor is ridiculous. This is heroic fantasy. And while I'm sure someone is going to pipe up and cite some pulp fantasy reference where scene x can't be replicated given rules, its pretty clear that they catch the major points. If you have a problem on that score, its more a problem with the dms ability to describle effects than anything else. It has always amazed me how rules obsessed the 'real' roleplayers are, where they require the rules to spell out the most specific details of a scene.And to those who think that added options in supplement books don't come at a price, well...we can't all know what we are talking about.Rant out.</blockquote>