Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Games have rules and restrictions. I value consistency, logic and verisimilitude in my games, and to me that requires that things make some kind of logical sense, that there is a reason why your human fighter can break a stone wall with their bare hands or bend a prison bar, or your rogue can completely avoid damage from a ground zero fireball without moving from a five foot square, and I don't want that reason to rely on fuzzy narrative trope-logic. Since those things are not possible for humans in real life, there must be some kind of supernatural explanation. I want to know what it is.And the games are trying to emulate myths and stories. OR did you think Chimeras, Sphinxes, Rocs, Trolls, Ogres, Goblins, Orcs, Medusa, Hydra, Dragons, Giants, zombies, ghouls, vampires, dryads, nymphs, mermaids, ect ect ect were all real creatures that we really studied to make the game happen?
Stories and myths do not require this (although many provide them anyway), because they are stories and myths and serve a different purpose.
You can't emulate something without some logical rules for how the same concept works in different mediums.