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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4292391" data-attributes="member: 710">Many game systems don't have rules that would be able to &quot;simulate&quot; this. Some game systems would require special abilities, meaning you can't do it by default. Is this is a serious flaw? A minor flaw? Does it really matter?D&amp;D is a &quot;role-playing game&quot;. Not a &quot;role-playing simulation&quot;. Or a &quot;world-simulation&quot;. The parts of &quot;playing a role&quot; and &quot;game&quot; are both important. If you remove the role-playing, we get a game. It's something like chess, or poker, or Need for Speed. if we remove the game, we have acting or an psychological exercise or test.A game always uses abstractions and simplifications to achieve a high playability, but also tries to be complex enough to be entertaining as a game. The &quot;role-playing&quot; part of role-playing games means that there is a little more to it then just following some obscure rules, though. We do stuff like talking in-character. We pretend the obscure rule artifacts mean something in the sense of persons and objects of a fictional world.&nbsp; We pretend that they are more then just rules objects. Roleplaying is pretending to be an Elf. The game defines what Elves can do in a world full of Elves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4292391, member: 710"] Many game systems don't have rules that would be able to "simulate" this. Some game systems would require special abilities, meaning you can't do it by default. Is this is a serious flaw? A minor flaw? Does it really matter? D&D is a "role-playing game". Not a "role-playing simulation". Or a "world-simulation". The parts of "playing a role" and "game" are both important. If you remove the role-playing, we get a game. It's something like chess, or poker, or Need for Speed. if we remove the game, we have acting or an psychological exercise or test. A game always uses abstractions and simplifications to achieve a high playability, but also tries to be complex enough to be entertaining as a game. The "role-playing" part of role-playing games means that there is a little more to it then just following some obscure rules, though. We do stuff like talking in-character. We pretend the obscure rule artifacts mean something in the sense of persons and objects of a fictional world. We pretend that they are more then just rules objects. Roleplaying is pretending to be an Elf. The game defines what Elves can do in a world full of Elves. [/QUOTE]

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