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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5633933" data-attributes="member: 73683">This.Is.Dead.Wrong.There is nothing about the abstraction of combat versus the abstraction of interpersonal interactions (of which combat is a subset, mind you) that necessitates combat requiring more rules than, say, debate. In fact, if we look at another instance of rules - let's say, <a href="http://www.parlidebate.org/npda-rules/" target="_blank">the National Parliamentary Debate Association rules</a> - we find plenty of rules for interpersonal interactions and (gasp!) none for combat.Similarly, I can cite dozens of examples of games where combat is resolved in a brisk fashion with perhaps a handful of rolls and relatively few rules.The belief that combat requires all these rules is totally false. The reality is that combat in D&D was designed to be rules-heavy because people like combat in D&D to be nuanced and flexible, because it represents the most consistently "meaty" part of the game for your average group.</blockquote>