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<blockquote data-quote="mach1.9pants" data-source="post: 6495303" data-attributes="member: 55946"><p>Well bounded accuracy increases immersion for me. A human cannot just wade through an army of hundreds with a sword. Whereas often, in other editions, that was possible for your max level PC. It seems right to me that a swarm of commoners could overwhelm an ogre, but at a horrible price in their lives, which is exactly why you hire a band of adventurers to rid you of the ogre for you. The ogre would probably kill 2/3 of those pig farmers before succumbing, and the is the real chance of a TPFK (Total Pig Farmer Kill). So if the ogre is attacking your village and you can't escape/have to fight, then yes the villagers can stand up to that ogre, but not without a lot of sacrifice. An adult dragon? Well your village, or even town, is probably toast, but you might get a chunk of it. Without bounded accuracy (as in previous editions) I always had to ignore the feeling I had that, by the book, no civilisation should survive with it's weak 1/2HD commoners.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: as pointed out above a 10th level barb could reasonably take on 70 peasants. Call those peasant robbers and defeating a force of 70 cut throats sounds pretty heroic/super hero-ish to me me, well beyond the bounds of real life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mach1.9pants, post: 6495303, member: 55946"] Well bounded accuracy increases immersion for me. A human cannot just wade through an army of hundreds with a sword. Whereas often, in other editions, that was possible for your max level PC. It seems right to me that a swarm of commoners could overwhelm an ogre, but at a horrible price in their lives, which is exactly why you hire a band of adventurers to rid you of the ogre for you. The ogre would probably kill 2/3 of those pig farmers before succumbing, and the is the real chance of a TPFK (Total Pig Farmer Kill). So if the ogre is attacking your village and you can't escape/have to fight, then yes the villagers can stand up to that ogre, but not without a lot of sacrifice. An adult dragon? Well your village, or even town, is probably toast, but you might get a chunk of it. Without bounded accuracy (as in previous editions) I always had to ignore the feeling I had that, by the book, no civilisation should survive with it's weak 1/2HD commoners. EDIT: as pointed out above a 10th level barb could reasonably take on 70 peasants. Call those peasant robbers and defeating a force of 70 cut throats sounds pretty heroic/super hero-ish to me me, well beyond the bounds of real life. [/QUOTE]
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