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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9149435" data-attributes="member: 52734">My tolerable level of verisimilitude has changed over the editions.  Back in the 80’s and early 90’s I wanted a fantasy simulator, akin to the various flight simulators I’d play on the computer.   I wanted it as immersive as I could get to feel like I was part of that world so far away.   Those were also the days where more complex mechanics meant “realer”.That peaked during the days of 3E.   Mechanics to “simulate” everything, a rule for everything.When I started getting involved in other game systems after the fall of 3E, I started to realize that those mechanics were getting in the way of my imagination.  And not just the complex ones.  Several D&Disms were just limiting my imagination and creativity.   Trying to tie down a fighter’s strength to what a real person could max bench press was getting in the way with that same fighter wrestling a dragon to the ground, and other such things.  Art depicting grand landscapes of floating castles, alien vistas and the like were replacing the mundane landscapes of Elmore and Parkinson’s - and I wanted to play in those more fantastical realms where the laws of nature and physics were bent or turned on their ear.  In many ways, I realized I was limiting my imagination for a boring reproduction of reality.So, I kinda stopped.   And while I do enjoy things that make internal sense, I’ve stopped trying to compare it to reality, and instead rely on the internal laws of the campaign itself.</blockquote>

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