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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5046098" data-attributes="member: 15651">Back to the OPs post - Personally I would handwave most of the issue with what the PCs are wearing/equipped with except in unusual circumstances such as dinner with nobles, etc.  Where I would enforce "reality" would be on the issue of consequences of your actions.  If you whip out the longsword and kill the drunk bastard who punched you in the bar, you will probably end up in serious trouble.As for the social contract with players - you say 9 times out of 10 they will be in lesser combat situations - to the players that may appear to be you looking to screw them 1 time in 10.  I can remember when I tried to run a Mechwarrior RPG game years ago.  In the first version of the game, weapons were deadly and people were realistically very susceptible to dying from them.  After one case where the PCs were attacked by a group of soldiers armed with sub-machine guns and grenades while the PCs were in their barracks resting, two of the players stated that their PCs were no longer leaving their Mechs.  They would take the Mechs out to talk to a  contact, purchase equipment, they would eat and sleep there etc.  If you make it so the players feel like you are trying to get them, they will do everything possible to avoid those situations, perhaps never going into town anymore.</blockquote>