The map to a dungeon is a testimony. Someone went there, saw things and wrote/drew them on paper. But memory is a feeble thing, especially under dire circumstances, and I'm willing to assert that walking through a creepy underground system
Rules in a TTRPG remove unwanted elements for that specific game experience. That is what Jared Sinclair's Rules Elide article is about in a nutshell (or at least what I understood of it). It is a well-written, well-exemplified article, and…
In Part 1 we talked about how rules zoom out from what a game designer deems unnecessary detail to advance the game. In this way, rules make you think less about some things at the table: your Bow +1 will hit more times than a standard bow