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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9427847" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I don't know what this means. Do you want a social combat system with &quot;social hit points&quot; and such? That would be a more mechanical structure, but still be a &quot;mere calculation&quot;. Do you want the Fate system? That could be interesting... but DnD isn't designed like Fate. And other than just porting an entire subsystem from Fate into this, I don't see how you achieve that.Sure, but here is the second side of the problem. DnD players are pedants. The more &quot;human reasoning&quot; you allow for, the more &quot;Well, actually, RAW says....&quot; you get from players who are acting either toxically or in bad faith, see conversation on Stealth and Invisibility. Or the insistence in this thread that, because the rules don't say, NOTHING can change this DC 15 to anything else. Designers don't just make rules. They make rules for the community they have. And this community long ago decided on a path that would tear apart rules that are not robust like computer code.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9427847, member: 6801228"] I don't know what this means. Do you want a social combat system with "social hit points" and such? That would be a more mechanical structure, but still be a "mere calculation". Do you want the Fate system? That could be interesting... but DnD isn't designed like Fate. And other than just porting an entire subsystem from Fate into this, I don't see how you achieve that. Sure, but here is the second side of the problem. DnD players are pedants. The more "human reasoning" you allow for, the more "Well, actually, RAW says...." you get from players who are acting either toxically or in bad faith, see conversation on Stealth and Invisibility. Or the insistence in this thread that, because the rules don't say, NOTHING can change this DC 15 to anything else. Designers don't just make rules. They make rules for the community they have. And this community long ago decided on a path that would tear apart rules that are not robust like computer code. [/QUOTE]

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