It's a fantasy role-playing game.

DM: You are Scanlan Shorthalt, a gnome bard . You are the member of the famous group of adventurers. Previously, K'Varn falls, but is immediately brought back to undeath by the Horn of Orcus. A ray from his eyestalk turns Kima to stone.
DM: Scanlan, you're up. You're currently face-down on the ground. Or no, sorry, you're on, like, your hurt knee. You're not prone, you manage to catch yourself up.
Player: I stand, I look at the creature. No, I don't look at the creature.  I just sort of look near the creature, and I will punch it in its face with Bigby's Hand.
DM: All righty, let's go ahead and pull this up real fast. How does the-- What's the effect on that one?
Player: Hand is an object that has an AC of 20. Strength of 26. Blah blah blah.
DM: This is the Forceful Hand?
Player: It's the Clenched Fist.
DM: Clenched Fist.
Player: It's a melee attack, it's like--
DM: All right, so go ahead and make a melee attack with your game statistics. So go ahead and roll d20.
Player: d20.
DM: Add your strength modifier and your proficiency modifier.
Player: Ten.
DM: Ten.
Player: Right?
DM: Total of ten?
Player: Yeah.
DM: All right.
