Quote Originally Posted by Silly Name View Post
I think the dissociation comes from treating athletic feats as discrete and separate things a character can do. A professional weight-lifter will be exhausted by partecipating in a competition, and I know they can't lift up as much weight as they theoretically can an infinite number of times per day, as they have to recuperate... But that also means they're exhausted, and aren't going to run a 200m sprint after lifting 150Kg.

But if I can do that in a game, it feels weird - I'm too tired to deadlift again until I rest, but I'm also still capable of doing other physically exerting things... why? How? Those mechanics cease to map onto reality if we abstract them too much instead of, I don't know, tying them to a stamina system of sorts.
I can stomach that level of abstraction, the things I don't like are the ones the require me to "memorize" certain martial powers and then forget how to perform all of my other martial tricks.