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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9773605" data-attributes="member: 86653">Yeah, it’s all subjective. Everyone has different lines in different places. For me, making the referee’s life a touch easier by just accepting the game is a game makes for a better experience. Like so many of the other “little things” we do or ignore to make the game run smoothly. Shrugging and biting the hook instead of insisting on a well thought out and thoroughly roleplayed motivation for one. Instantly trusting total strangers (the other PCs) with our PC’s life. Playing to the game’s mechanics not any sense of a real world, re: popup healing, lack of scars, easy resurrection, etc. Ignoring the absurdity of a complete and total heal from 8-hours’ sleep. Physics of giant creatures. Ignoring the absurdity of being at full combat readiness at 1 hp but on death’s door at 0 hp. Not having PCs go insane from the constant danger and stress the PCs face. Zero to hero, i.e. peasant farmer to demigod in a few weeks. Lack of economics and inflation due to PCs dumping hundreds or thousands of gold into a small town’s economy. Not having the BBEG just stomp the PCs at the earliest opportunity. High-level NPCs sending low-level PCs on conveniently level-appropriate missions. Balanced combats and encounter building. Etc. There’s a whole lot of verisimilitude that is given up or glossed over to make these kinds of games function at a basic level. Adding decoupling mechanical rests from in-game sleep is just one more that’s easily added to that massive list.</blockquote>

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