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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 8677039" data-attributes="member: 49017">What do you want to simulate and how detailed a simulation do you want? A game that's good at blow-by-blow melee combat might not be so great at political intrigue and backbiting at royal court; and even games which try to do both almost always give one far more attention than the other. And a game which concentrates primarily on the physical aspects of a situation while neglecting the psychological ones - the Rules as Physics concept - are actually going to be pretty bad at giving results which match the "reality" of whatever genre/setting is being simulated. I could make an argument that with a referee who knows a subject really well then you'll get a better result letting them decide how to resolve situations on the spot with dice to introduce a random factor than almost any set of rules can deliver.</blockquote>