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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5261183" data-attributes="member: 19675">If there were no dice and other randomizers in any given game, I might agree with you.But a PC in a game has no more perfect an understanding of what will happen next than a real person.I stated that I could do 3 reps of 10 leg presses at 700lbs when I was 22.  That is accurate only insofar as it being a understood as a statement of statistical probability.  I had done so, more than once.  That doesn't mean that I was 100% sure that I could do so every time I walked into the weight room, but rather that- barring X-factors- I could reasonably expect to be able to do so (taking into account my self-assessment of things like my general health, level of intoxication, mental attitude towards lifting on that day, etc.).So it is for a PC- a Str 14 Fighter, for example- would have a general understanding of how well he could perform a 10' standing jump...and would also understand things like that probability would drop if he's wearing chainmail, or just got nicked by a drow crossbow bolt.And at no point did I suggest that imagination be taken out of the equation.However, an RPG has rules for a reason: they get us beyond "Bang! Bang! You're dead!"  "No, you missed!" type arguments in play.The better the simulation of the underlying event that inspired the situation, the easier it is to immerse one's self, precisely because there is a set of rules that determine outcomes, rather than an argument.</blockquote>

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