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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8624986" data-attributes="member: 6801845">We're giving serious answers?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f612.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cautious:" title="Cautious    :cautious:"  data-smilie="13"data-shortname=":cautious:" />  Okay.My answer is that I want reality + magic + a sprinkle of action movie logic all modified for fun and simplification for gameplay reasons.So dragons fly and breath fire because magic. But people also have small amounts of inherent magic that help them heal more quickly or make more attacks than realistic.  HP are there because we have to have something to indicate how long on average you can last in a fight and that something should reflect experience and training.   We have levels and turns and discreet spell level slots because it's relatively easy.But for the most part? I assume the D&D world works like ours does.  If you're firing dual hand crossbows you have to have a free hand to reload for example.  But I also don't impose a lot of rules because that's how I think they should work.  Do you sink like a stone in heavy armor?  Well ... I at one point had found a video from a middle aged guy that went swimming in a lake wearing chainmail and it worked just fine.  The gambeson apparently acted something like a flotation device.  Sleeping in heavy armor?  No clue how much more difficult it would be than any other armor and unless puts on properly fitted armor and does some real world testing I don't think anyone else does either.Of course you can't  please everyone.   We have jumping rules that some people dislike because they look at Olympic records.  Very, very few people can long jump anything close to world records especially if you take into consideration all the variables of terrain, age, weight carried and so on.So for me it's not reality, but I want it reality adjacent.  I want to be able to envision what happens as if it were in a somewhat grounded fantasy movie.</blockquote>

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