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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1619212" data-attributes="member: 812">One note that might help to bring us all back together in a happy family -- we might be using different definitions of "plausible" -- it occurs to me that what I think is "plausible" in a fantasy story is quite a bit different from what I think is "plausible" in the real world.I want my games to match the plausibility of the stories and movies I love. If Brigitte Lin can down 25 bad guys with one wave of her hand, such behaviour becomes plausible if I'm running a game that's meant to emulate the feel of Swordsman II. I suspect that Ourph is using plausible to mean "Like what real people can do."The big bad is not watching me, he's casting a spell that has a listed casting time of 1 minute. So he's standing there casting a spell. So I pick up twenty rocks and throw them, one after the other, in an effort to strike him and throw his concentration off.Let's, to make this even simpler, imagine that I'm not trying to hit a guy. I'm trying to hit a switch on the far side of the room. What, I have to wait until the lever isn't looking?The problem isn't justifying in-combat actions -- I understand the justification and don't consider it implausible at all. The problem comes when characters attempt out-of-combat actions -- you either end up with characters doing a dozen things before the guy in the fight gets to make another swing (which frustrates the guy in the fight), or you have to arbitrarily limit a character's ability to act, which frustrates and confuses that guy.My years of gaming experience have shown me that the one-minute combat round was never used anyway, and whenever we tried to enforce it, it fell apart. The only time it comes up is when players are attempting things out of combat and suddenly we'd all think, "Oh, yeah, it's a MINUTE. It's a LONG time. People watching this are sitting around for quite a while." We never used it after we put some thought into it.</blockquote>

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