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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3861217" data-attributes="member: 2525">Your personal belief about the word aside, the word means &quot;depicting realism&quot; or &quot;truth&quot;.&nbsp; That's it.&nbsp; The definition is not specific to fantasy worlds or being the best swordsman and gravity.&nbsp; All the responses about realism address people claiming it's about &quot;Verisimilitude&quot;, which is just a fancy way of saying &quot;I want realism in my depictions&quot;.&nbsp; Swordsmen who are able to swing a sword strong enough to decapitate creatures in a single blow four times in a matter of seconds are not realistic or a depiction of &quot;truth&quot;.&nbsp; Doing it with a magical sword, while wearing magical armor and a magical cloak and having magical healing potions that they can grab and drink in a matter of seconds is also not realistic or a depiction of &quot;truth&quot;.&nbsp; Being able to leap from a 100' cliff and live from the fall because you have a lot of experience killing monsters is not realistic or &quot;truth&quot;.&nbsp; That's the responses to this &quot;Verisimilitude&quot; claim, and they hold up.&nbsp; Verisimilitude is not compatible much with D&amp;D.If you guys mean something different than realism, then quit using the wrong word <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 3861217, member: 2525"] Your personal belief about the word aside, the word means "depicting realism" or "truth". That's it. The definition is not specific to fantasy worlds or being the best swordsman and gravity. All the responses about realism address people claiming it's about "Verisimilitude", which is just a fancy way of saying "I want realism in my depictions". Swordsmen who are able to swing a sword strong enough to decapitate creatures in a single blow four times in a matter of seconds are not realistic or a depiction of "truth". Doing it with a magical sword, while wearing magical armor and a magical cloak and having magical healing potions that they can grab and drink in a matter of seconds is also not realistic or a depiction of "truth". Being able to leap from a 100' cliff and live from the fall because you have a lot of experience killing monsters is not realistic or "truth". That's the responses to this "Verisimilitude" claim, and they hold up. Verisimilitude is not compatible much with D&D. If you guys mean something different than realism, then quit using the wrong word :) [/QUOTE]

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