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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9704634" data-attributes="member: 23751">First, it doesn't just tell you that you fell down.  It also tells you how far you fell down.  To have fallen X distance, you had to be falling before you hit bottom.Second, the game has gravity.  If it didn't, the spell couldn't reverse it and the game wouldn't say this in the 5e PHB on pate 195."For example, you don't provoke an opportunity attack if an explosion hurls you out of a foe's reach or if gravity causes you to fall past an enemy."Third, you still can't get past the wrong definition of simulation.  It's not the scientific one where you would get answers from the simulation.  A simulation in an RPG does NOT tell you HOW something happened.  That's not the definition used.  That's not its purpose.  It's just there to imitate a process, which is one of the other definitions of simulation.Why is it so hard to accept that RPGs use a different definition of simulation than the scientific one?</blockquote>