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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7156132" data-attributes="member: 37579">Not really, no. There are hockey video games. There are a whole industry of sports video games, and none of them actually require movement. But unless it's going for a wacky Mario Strikers vibe, they strive for authenticity and a "real" experience. So points are scored the same way, the same plays are used, the same positions are used. There are a lot of rules in sports like hockey. Where you can hit someone with a stick, where you can be to score a goal, what qualifies as a shot on net, high sticking, icing, where the puck drops, penalty shots, etc. A hockey game that ignores all the basic rules and has people taking penalty shots from the wrong place and changes the shape of the rink or number of players on a team is going to raise eyebrows. And that's just the straight rules. When they make a hockey video game, they don't give the Center the ability to teleport. Or let the puck ricochet like a bouncy ball. The slapshot doesn't set things on fire. The Defence players don't have the power to create phantasmal walls to block shots. I don't expect a D&D video game to follow all of the rules and math of D&D (but several have in the past, including all the best ones). But it shouldn't feel like Generic Fantasy: Origins with a beholder.</blockquote>