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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9607861" data-attributes="member: 18182">D&D isn't and shouldn't be a "reality simulator", but a degree of verisimilitude goes a long way to making our fantasy worlds more immersive.Of course, how detailed and complicated do we make various systems to get there . . . the answer is different for different gamers, which is why we have crunchy games with lots of simulationist mechanics and more soft games that breeze past all of that.D&D, to me, needs to fall somewhere in the middle. Not ignore verisimilitude and simulation, but also not get bogged down in game-slowing mechanics not of interest to the average gamer.</blockquote>