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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9249082" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>It depends. Sometimes you just accept ridiculous ideas so you can play.</p><p></p><p>For example, if you rhink about it, Bounded accuracy is the most ridiculous idea ever. It's absolutely retarded. The idea that Skill is kept within 20% of being trained or not in something and that determines your success is the stupidest idea ever.</p><p></p><p>As people have pointed out, the difference between a Surgeon and a Nurse is that the Surgeon will only succeed around 40% more often at complex surgery than the Nurse if they have the same ability scores.</p><p></p><p>This is why I find Warriors so absurd in 5e as well. A trained sniper is only going to hit 20% more often than your Book worm RPG nerd if they have the same ability score. Give them an extreme shot of a mile, and it's only a 20% chance better for that trained and experienced military sniper than that Bookworm who knows how to work the gun, but doesn't really practice and has not really ever trained. </p><p></p><p>Not only is that pure fantasy, it's so ridiculously out there that it exceeds belief. </p><p></p><p>BUT, I play 5e because the idea keeps it simple to run the game. </p><p></p><p>Is that suspension of belief?</p><p></p><p>(and now I expect I'll have a whole horde of people trying to defend 5e's version of BA as a "real life" in how it operates. They haven't changed my mind in over 10 years, I don't expect they'll change it now)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 9249082, member: 4348"] It depends. Sometimes you just accept ridiculous ideas so you can play. For example, if you rhink about it, Bounded accuracy is the most ridiculous idea ever. It's absolutely retarded. The idea that Skill is kept within 20% of being trained or not in something and that determines your success is the stupidest idea ever. As people have pointed out, the difference between a Surgeon and a Nurse is that the Surgeon will only succeed around 40% more often at complex surgery than the Nurse if they have the same ability scores. This is why I find Warriors so absurd in 5e as well. A trained sniper is only going to hit 20% more often than your Book worm RPG nerd if they have the same ability score. Give them an extreme shot of a mile, and it's only a 20% chance better for that trained and experienced military sniper than that Bookworm who knows how to work the gun, but doesn't really practice and has not really ever trained. Not only is that pure fantasy, it's so ridiculously out there that it exceeds belief. BUT, I play 5e because the idea keeps it simple to run the game. Is that suspension of belief? (and now I expect I'll have a whole horde of people trying to defend 5e's version of BA as a "real life" in how it operates. They haven't changed my mind in over 10 years, I don't expect they'll change it now) [/QUOTE]
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