Reply To: Can RPGs learn from Wargaming?

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All rules are just abstractions to try and make some kind determination of whether an action successfully occurs or not.  Why are we asking whether a single roll to cause damage vs a roll to hit and a saving throw feels right when ultimately rolling a dice is never going to be an accurate representation of what you’re actually doing.  Neither of them feels right.  It doesn’t really matter whether you have a single roll that is made more difficult by the opponent’s armour, whether the opponent gets a saving throw, whether armour just soaks an amount of damage.  None of them are actually realistic, they’re just probability models.