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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7517895" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>There is no such thing as "objective significance." Significance is a subjective term. For example, $1000 is an insignificant amount of money to Bill Gates, but is a very significant amount of money to the homeless guy on the corner. The same goes for any given rule in the game. What you find to be significant, is insignificant to some others. </p><p></p><p>To the people I described, level 5 is meaningless. While it may be objectively more powerful, it's insignificant to people who want to explore character and roleplaying aspects of the game and don't give a rat's behind about mechanics. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No. No it's not. It's utterly insignificant to someone who doesn't care about spellcasters. It may be significant to you, but you don't get to say what is significant to anyone else.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No. Humans, elves and half-elves have significance to me. The rest of the races are as insignificant as bugs outside my house.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Gold does directly impact what your character can do. You may not be able to get into the castle at all with your mechanical abilities, but gold can grease the way and directly impact what you can do by getting you inside. It doesn't translate into mechanical goodies, but it doesn't take mechanics to directly impact what you can do and how well you might be able to do something.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not only does it warrant tracking copper, it's more important than any mechanic out there!! At least to some people it is, because again, significance is subjective. Where you are going very, very wrong, is in assuming that your way is the One True Way and that just because YOU prefer mechanics over roleplaying to a tremendous degree, that everyone else does as well. Many of us don't. </p><p></p><p>Personally, when it comes to the mechanics/roleplay split, it's about 40%/60% for me. Mechanics take a backseat, so gold is more valuable to me than +1 or +2 to a stat or a new magic item. For you mechanics are more important. The thing is, this game is a ROLEPLAYING game, so roleplay is a large part of what the game assumes to be present. If you devalue roleplay to the point where gold doesn't have relevance, that's not the fault of the game. You are the one who made gold irrelevant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7517895, member: 23751"] There is no such thing as "objective significance." Significance is a subjective term. For example, $1000 is an insignificant amount of money to Bill Gates, but is a very significant amount of money to the homeless guy on the corner. The same goes for any given rule in the game. What you find to be significant, is insignificant to some others. To the people I described, level 5 is meaningless. While it may be objectively more powerful, it's insignificant to people who want to explore character and roleplaying aspects of the game and don't give a rat's behind about mechanics. No. No it's not. It's utterly insignificant to someone who doesn't care about spellcasters. It may be significant to you, but you don't get to say what is significant to anyone else. No. Humans, elves and half-elves have significance to me. The rest of the races are as insignificant as bugs outside my house. Gold does directly impact what your character can do. You may not be able to get into the castle at all with your mechanical abilities, but gold can grease the way and directly impact what you can do by getting you inside. It doesn't translate into mechanical goodies, but it doesn't take mechanics to directly impact what you can do and how well you might be able to do something. Not only does it warrant tracking copper, it's more important than any mechanic out there!! At least to some people it is, because again, significance is subjective. Where you are going very, very wrong, is in assuming that your way is the One True Way and that just because YOU prefer mechanics over roleplaying to a tremendous degree, that everyone else does as well. Many of us don't. Personally, when it comes to the mechanics/roleplay split, it's about 40%/60% for me. Mechanics take a backseat, so gold is more valuable to me than +1 or +2 to a stat or a new magic item. For you mechanics are more important. The thing is, this game is a ROLEPLAYING game, so roleplay is a large part of what the game assumes to be present. If you devalue roleplay to the point where gold doesn't have relevance, that's not the fault of the game. You are the one who made gold irrelevant. [/QUOTE]
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