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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5994418" data-attributes="member: 710">Here's my thought: Ticking off an encounter power for Come and Get It so that your "Hey Bro" actually brings your enemy closer to you is as "dissociated" as the fact that you roll a d20 and add some number to determine whether your attack hits.The d20 and the math calculaitons behind it are nothing the character is aware of, but it determines whether something he thinks and plans to do actually works out, and that the player is highly aware of.To get rid of such dissassociative effects, we'd basically have to move to a "DM/computer rolls all the dice and tracks all mechanical resources". Think about how you character would eventually play out under such a scenario. You don't know the rules resolution at all. You don't know whether your taunt doesn't work because you failed a dice roll, or a target was out of range or immune to forced movement, or because you already ticked of a power for this combat. You don't know if you have 30 hit points or 1 hit point.You would probably still eventually get a "feel" for what is going. You don't know your number of hit points, but you may learn that after a few swings of an enemy, you're hurting, but you will usually be able to deal with a few. You probably know that taunting enemies works only seldomly and isn't worth trying more than once in any given combat, but you know it can work. That doesn't mean the results are "realisytic" - for example, you will probably never encounter a situation where you or one of your friends are killed instantly by an attacker. You know the start of combat usually ends up in bruises, glances or outright misses.</blockquote>

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