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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6994359" data-attributes="member: 6787650">It's indeed a thing. I might argue that the fiction is being subordinated to the DM's desire not to bother creating new mechanics. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />In other words, if I wanted your fiction (continuous-velocity charge culminating in a successful spear attack while still moving), I'd create a new mechanic even if it's just "the damage in inflicted per round and in some situations, I the DM will rule on the fly that two turns' worth of stuff only constitutes one round of time and won't have you take damage twice."I haven't done so, because I'm fine with the other fiction: that decision-making has a non-zero duration and that the time "between turns" is still actual time, implying a pause. Edit: actually, in the initiative system that I use, it would actually be fairly straightforward to model continuous action resolution in this case. "If you declare a multi-round long charge (Dash for a while and then attack at the end), then there is no decision-making pause in the middle, and any hostile terrain effects on the terminus of your charge will be treated as damaging you for the minimum possible number of rounds. If it is possible to move through and attack in one round, then in this case you will not take damage again on the second round because you're performing a continuous action." Boom, done. You can't do that as elegantly under PHB turn-by-turn initiative because there's no good way to tell the difference between continuous action and pause-to-decide, since no one except [MENTION=6709383]Cosmic[/MENTION]Kid seems to skip your action declaration on the second round. ;-) So to answer your previous question, [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION], it appears that my system does make it easier to alleviate the stop-motion issues of this particular case.My bias is towards simulationism, and a large part of the interest of RPGs is seeing what sort of fiction falls out of the mechanics. I think it's interesting that D&D creatures heal almost all wounds in a matter of minutes or hours; I find it fascinating to consider what impact that might have on animal behavior, for instance. E.g. lions and sharks can afford to be more aggressive and tackle more dangerous prey if they know that any wounds taken will heal before the meal has finished digesting. And indeed, just as this predicts, we find that D&D wolves/lions/other predators are stereotypically more likely to attack (N)PCs than in the real world. What impact does this have on the way NPCs organize their communities? Etc.RPGs for me are essentially an exercise in creative extrapolation, plus a series of games (e.g. "Save Loretta's Baby From Becoming a Werewolf!") which take place within the universe established by that extrapolation.</blockquote>

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