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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9865143" data-attributes="member: 7026617">I don't either generally.Ah, but in the case I was describing they have both Dodge and Block, and they're both different mechanically and provide different benefits.  That's one of the things that makes it a much more satisfactory representation IME.I'm not doing an appeal to authority so much as showing my experience with the realities of some of these things doesn't end at watching movies.  At some point, if the people who actually are famliar with real world expression of some skills and concepts aren't a good enough source for assessing them, who is?  I don't try and assess firefight systems strongly because I only know what I've read (though since I've tried to make sure I pay attention to people who do know what they're talking about I use that data when assessing them), but when you make a claim like "All these combat systems are bad at expressing the reality" and I disagree, I think I should at least show that there's more than my gamist tastes in action there.</blockquote>