James

Fully agree

If RP was dealt with using numbers while still retaining the writing, each individual fight could be done very quickly between players. Just as Krugalicious stated, in a perfect world free-form rp would work well. This isn’t perfect and just like communism it is incapable of producing a working system. Having a bare amount of math as stated would fix a large amount of issues and furthermore eventually kill pvp. Even in mass fights if it wasn’t condensed to singular chats between individuals fighting or a fighting chat all together between participants in a single combat, things would fly-by and give non-arbitrary results. Abstractness would be completely removed from the equation and arguing would cease. Traveling is just one of the problems that would be solved as a side-affect. 

Issue is people going too far, a day or two ago I went into the empire’s capital and had two skeletons attack a trio of people in a court house. The RP was good and the skeletons fell as soon as they managed to bash the skulls in, I could of gone further but I chose not to since more people were arriving to help them. The skeletons died and my point was made. That was good RP.

A munchkin however, would teleport a bear into the courthouse and do that level of B.S when all he has to do is just teleport it INTO the courtroom and barricade the door from the outside with some ice evocation or wooden boards and nails, which is still stupid since he could just get a group of friends and do that instead of using a bear.