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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9342432" data-attributes="member: 42582">Well, my premise was about an actual event of play. And given that we don't have a MRI on the PC knight's shoulder wound, I don't think we can say it was unrealistic provided it's in the ballpark of actual lived experience of recovery from soft-tissue injury (which is something I have a bit of).As for the proposition that baked-in mechanics are more likely to be realistic - I don't think there's actually much evidence of that, is there? I mean they're also just numbers made up based on general categorisations of injuries, by people who are typically not occupational therapists and who don't have any sort of statistical evidence ready-to-hand.The pull to purist-for-system is, in my view, not that the numbers generated by (say) the RM recovery table are more realistic, but that they are generated otherwise than by stipulation at the moment the question arises. To use Baker's language from Apocalypse World, they "disclaim decision-making".</blockquote>