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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8676621" data-attributes="member: 82106">Put it this way, if I was going to simulate ACTUAL MELEE COMBAT such as what is depicted in D&amp;D, first I would build a model of forces and such that took into account mass, momentum, etc. in various ways. I'd want it to analogize the generation of kinetic energy by muscular effort, transferred into weapons, and then delivered to targets.At the process level I think you'd need to evaluate who is acting and who is reacting, somehow, and then consider factors like whether the attacker is being cautious or reckless, and then likewise considering the options and choices of the defender (if any). This would all need to include some sort of perceptual model as well as somehow representing the 'OODA loop' that is each participant's mental process. I am so far from having a coherent idea of how this would even work that I cannot state how this all would be designed, but it would be VERY different in character from what Gygax proposed, or what most existing FRPGs do now. I mean, probably, the best sort of strategy would simply be to go with a very loose system of intentions and moves, more like what Dungeon World 'combat' is like than being similar to D&amp;D. It might be possible from there to formalize it a little more, introduce position, size, etc. as more definite objective factors, etc. The thing is, I don't believe any of the above will actually make a terribly interesting game!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8676621, member: 82106"] Put it this way, if I was going to simulate ACTUAL MELEE COMBAT such as what is depicted in D&D, first I would build a model of forces and such that took into account mass, momentum, etc. in various ways. I'd want it to analogize the generation of kinetic energy by muscular effort, transferred into weapons, and then delivered to targets. At the process level I think you'd need to evaluate who is acting and who is reacting, somehow, and then consider factors like whether the attacker is being cautious or reckless, and then likewise considering the options and choices of the defender (if any). This would all need to include some sort of perceptual model as well as somehow representing the 'OODA loop' that is each participant's mental process. I am so far from having a coherent idea of how this would even work that I cannot state how this all would be designed, but it would be VERY different in character from what Gygax proposed, or what most existing FRPGs do now. I mean, probably, the best sort of strategy would simply be to go with a very loose system of intentions and moves, more like what Dungeon World 'combat' is like than being similar to D&D. It might be possible from there to formalize it a little more, introduce position, size, etc. as more definite objective factors, etc. The thing is, I don't believe any of the above will actually make a terribly interesting game! [/QUOTE]

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