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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5618712" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I think it is a perfectly valid type of commentary given the topic of the thread. My observation would be that fairly concrete combat mechanics don't result in a very heroic kind of genre. The problem is that any sort of realistic combat situation (which would presumably be the case with a highly concrete implementation) is going to have to acknowledge that melee combat is horribly dangerous and unpredictable. Thus your heroes will very rapidly run out of luck and take some deadly or utterly debilitating injury. No matter how strong, quick, skilled, etc you are you simply cannot expect to survive combat after combat in any even vaguely realistic system. In other words Conan is utterly unrealistic, and you can only really portray such heroes in a somewhat abstracted system where you can paper over just how unrealistic that kind of fiction is.</p></blockquote><p></p>