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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4292845" data-attributes="member: 2011">Explain, explain, explain, ...So many people trying to explain game mechanics in real world situations. So many people denying that those explanations really fit.It's all about game mechanics. The wonkiness that bug some people is that in order for the game mechanics to fit nicely together and be balanced and consistent, some believability gets stretched or assumptions get made.Understanding that a minion is a minion and it's ok for it to have 1 HP is fine. Trying to explain that in any sort of real world terms doesn't make a lot of sense. The 1 HP rule is merely a game mechanic to simplify the use of mooks for DMs. Nothing more. It has no decent explanation because it's believable that a Minion could actually survive getting hit once in a whiie, but the game system prevents that.Ditto for a lot of the other explanations for Shift, Pull, Hit Points, "why Dex helps Hide armor, but not Chain armor", etc.There are several 4E mechanics that need new (or even more detailed) explanations for it to fit into some people's versimilitude than others. That's why we keep having these discussions.But, it's just a game. These rules are no more believable or less believable than falling damage in earlier editions. Either a given DM and group buy into them, or they house rule them to make them more believable, or they don't play the system.Just like going into a campy movie, if one goes in with the mindset that it's a campy movie and will have stupid stuff in it and that's expected, they generally tend to have a better time at the movie then if they go in picking the movie apart.For 4E, it's all in the mindset of the players. JMO. If one tries to pick it apart, it's not that hard to do. If one concentrates more on having a good time understanding that this is not a simulationism type RPG, then enjoying the game is not that hard to do either.To me, some level of versimilitude is important. But, not enough that I am going to make the game less fun for my players by throwing dozens of pages of house rules at them. That's not why I play the game. I play the game because I LMAO more times in a four hour period than I do in the rest of my week combined.</blockquote>

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