#quarianplaneswalker

I was tagged by @quarianplaneswalker ! thank you <3

Name : Victoria

Nickname : Vicky, Tori, w/e honestly lol

Gender : Female

Star Sign : Sagittarius

Height : 5′2″

Sexuality : Asexual

Hogwarts House : Ravenclaw

Dream Trip : uhh im actually content to never leave my room ever, buuuut if i had to choose somewhere, it’d have to be Venice, Italy during the Carnival of Venice

Average Hours of Sleep : im so inconsistent tbh i go from not sleeping for 2 days to crashing for 12 hrs lmaoo. im Healthy™

Why I Made a Tumblr: it seemed like a good idea at the time  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i saw a lot of funny content from tumblr and wanted to get in on that sweet meme action

Dogs or Cats : BOTH, tho i have a cat and he’s my baby

When I Made a Tumblr :uhhh 2013 i think???

Followers : 451

Reasons for URL:i love Dick Grayson and joking about Dick Grayson

-sweats- I’m gonna tag:

In my experience, realism for the sake of realism isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. Pretty much every mechanic you have is going to be a simplified abstraction that sacrifices some amount of realism for speed and ease of use. So, I’d look at this not in terms of realistic vs unrealistic, but rather more vs less detail. The solution could be to figure out how much detail you need in order to create the player experience you desire.

Games like Shadowrun (for example) give you a dozen different combat skills because they experience they provide is really focused on the nuances of battle. The game wants you to feel like a professional criminal who takes care to always choose the right tools for each mission, so knowing which types of weapon you’re skilled with is pretty important. Games like the World of Darkness, on the other hand, care more about making you feel like a modern day monster with powers that set you apart from humanity, so they pay less attention to skills like using guns or swords.  When you play them, both types of game generally feel sufficiently realistic in their treatment of combat skills because they each give you all the detail that their intended experience requires.

(Heck, I’ve seen games where your only combat stat is “do you have a gun, yes or no?” that worked just fine.)

For choosing how detailed the game’s weapon skills should be, think about what you want your players to feel like while they’re playing this game, and consider how much attention they’re paying to stuff like weapons and equipment. How does additional detail here contribute to the overall player experience? Is it an important part of this experience that characters who wield an SMG play differently than ones that use a shotgun? Do you want to put enough detail into your combat system such that the difference between the two weapons can feel meaningful? 

Oh my god. There was a goose that bit my aunt’s butt when she was a kid and she absolutely hates geese now even though she’s an old lady.