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Why is there a limit to falling damage?
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<blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 8034951" data-attributes="member: 67296"><p>(TL;DR: many types of fiction, only one set of rules.)</p><p></p><p>As a general philosophy, I tend to agree. But to be fair, 5e is, and more so than any other edition, an asymmetrical system. What goes for the PCs doesn’t always work for NPC, and vice versa. In the narrative, PCs have a certain amount of plot armour that NPCs don’t, at least not by the rules and without a ruling from the DM (death saves for example). Which is fine, the story is about them, not the NPCs. The fiction serves the PCs, if only to make it “a good story”.</p><p></p><p>But that is where I think people disagree and begin to argue: there is only one set of rules, and many types and genres of fiction. Verisimilitude is not a yes/no question. Realism is not a yes/no question. Heroism and (super heroism) is not a yes/no question. They are rather subtle scales. And what one finds fitting in their fiction isn’t for someone else.</p><p></p><p>D&D doesn’t work well with situations where PCs are hapless, because D&D philosophy is that being hapless isn’t fun. I agree, at least to a certain extent.</p><p></p><p>But there are situations where if you put your head in the guillotine and pull the rope, I don’t care if the blade does 2d10, or 4d10, or whatever; doing that yourself thinking « I’m ok, I’ve got enough hp to soak this twice over » breaks my fiction.</p><p></p><p>Jumping down 1500ft goes about the same for me. Yet it is different from being dropped by the dragon from the same height, but my first reflex would be to play it as a fade-to-black scene, like in the movies where the ship sinks and the next scene starts with the character waking up on the beach.</p><p></p><p>If I’m the only one around the table having an issue with an action, I’ll align my fiction and allow all kinds of crazy ass naughty word, but otherwise I’d trust my players to play along the fiction I introduced in good faith. If they don’t like it, they can <em>tell</em> me. I won’t bite...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Laurefindel, post: 8034951, member: 67296"] (TL;DR: many types of fiction, only one set of rules.) As a general philosophy, I tend to agree. But to be fair, 5e is, and more so than any other edition, an asymmetrical system. What goes for the PCs doesn’t always work for NPC, and vice versa. In the narrative, PCs have a certain amount of plot armour that NPCs don’t, at least not by the rules and without a ruling from the DM (death saves for example). Which is fine, the story is about them, not the NPCs. The fiction serves the PCs, if only to make it “a good story”. But that is where I think people disagree and begin to argue: there is only one set of rules, and many types and genres of fiction. Verisimilitude is not a yes/no question. Realism is not a yes/no question. Heroism and (super heroism) is not a yes/no question. They are rather subtle scales. And what one finds fitting in their fiction isn’t for someone else. D&D doesn’t work well with situations where PCs are hapless, because D&D philosophy is that being hapless isn’t fun. I agree, at least to a certain extent. But there are situations where if you put your head in the guillotine and pull the rope, I don’t care if the blade does 2d10, or 4d10, or whatever; doing that yourself thinking « I’m ok, I’ve got enough hp to soak this twice over » breaks my fiction. Jumping down 1500ft goes about the same for me. Yet it is different from being dropped by the dragon from the same height, but my first reflex would be to play it as a fade-to-black scene, like in the movies where the ship sinks and the next scene starts with the character waking up on the beach. If I’m the only one around the table having an issue with an action, I’ll align my fiction and allow all kinds of crazy ass naughty word, but otherwise I’d trust my players to play along the fiction I introduced in good faith. If they don’t like it, they can [I]tell[/I] me. I won’t bite... [/QUOTE]
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