How Did Combat Become So Important in Dungeons and Dragons?

Ever wonder why 90% of the rules for Classes are focused on combat, and nothing else? Well, let's look into that and take a little trip into the history of why Combat is so important for Dungeons and Dragons!


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It's kind of weird, isn't it? That combat is so important and so focused on when it comes to Jensen. I mean at the end of the day, Dungeons and dragons is a role playing game, right? Role-playing it's about putting yourself in the role of a different character. You think with that concept, it would be more focused on social interaction, exploration, really focusing on figuring out who your character is, you know, role-playing so why is it that combat is such a large focus of the game?

I mean, the fact of the matter is when people talk about Dungeons and dragons, there's two things that they typically end up talking. One. Okay. Here's my character. And here's the cool stuff that's going on in the campaign, which I love hearing about by the way. And then two, here's my character in the build that I'm playing.

Here's the combat that happened here. You know what happened in all the combat encounters? Isn't it weird that that's, what's focused on in a role-playing game that supposedly has three pillars, social interactions, exploration, and cosmetic counters combat is so important. So why is that? Why has that become such a core part of this game and something that's so many books focused on.

I mean, at the end of the day, the largest portion of the rules, that classes. Are almost entirely focused on combat. I mean, the majority of them about 95% is only combat. So why is that? Well, let's talk about. So when approaching these kinds of topics, it's inevitable and entirely unavoidable that I have to talk about earlier.