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Because it's cinematic and fun, and we are playing a game that is explicitly about larger than life heroes.

I actually always thought of it as a quantum porn theory. The moment you think of it, it comes into existence somewhere on the internet, and by the time you have a chance to look it up, there's already a usenet community based around it. That might be dating myself. Nowadays I suppose there...

Most will behave like rock stars. 1 in a billion or so will be raised by the Kent family and therefore remain grounded.

Wait... what? This is standard operating procedure in Hollywood, and might be in writing 101. Easiest way to set up a straw man is to put the argument in the mouth of the jerk who is always wrong. Sadly, more than 10 years in academia has proven this to me.... The creator's conscious intent...

I may have been a touch pedantic. I do that. Occupational hazard.

Semantics again. I didn't think that paragraph really addressed it, and just muddied the waters. You made a semantic decision that the words healing and hit points meant different things pre-4e and post 4e, when the same features were there, consistently. You get "hit" by a Colossal dragon...

Right. There was always a fair amount of hand waving. We have to prick you enough to poison you, but not have it affect your capacity to fight in any way beyond the poison itself. i.e. no sucking chest wounds until you actually hit zero hit points (and even then, if you stabilize, that...

Um..... wasn't it this way for a LONG time? I don't have any older books in front of me, but I remember 3e, at least, was pretty explicit that hit points modeled getting the heck out of the way as much as they did taking hits. If they didn't, combat after about 1st level in any edition of D&D...

If having horses would be useful from a story perspective, perhaps someone should gift them some. Wealth rules are more of a guideline than a rule. And they only apply if you think the characters are likely to turn around and sell the horses and use the cash to buy magic items or something...

Or a noble/aristocrat of some kind. There are many types of horses. A plow horse has neither the training nor the build to carry your Fighter in armor, and isn't going to do a heck of a lot better carrying your 90lb weakling of a wizard if she has to do it all day (she'll do better dragging...

This is a good point. With the wide variety of critters who could handily devour half a dozen horses in a sitting, horses in a D&D world SHOULD be pretty rare relative to Earth standards, and a good horse does, in fact, cost more than a lot of suits of armor, depending on where you are...

My current gripe seems to be that I don't think a cold iron morningstar should be available at Sam's Club. A magical sword, a dagger, and a ranged weapon makes sense. When you add in the cold iron morningstar, the ghost touch sword, and a half dozen others I start to feel less like a hero and...

True that. I guess I'm feeling iconoclastic this week, though, so the system assumptions are rubbing me wrong. It'll pass. Usually does.

This is moving pretty far off topic, but I think rather than limiting campaign scope, a solution is to just nix most of the immunities so that the very rare monsters that have them feel special, rather than it being expected, run-of-the-mill, and boring as heck. Does the run of the mill...

Collapsing it all together is the D&Dism. In folklore you don't have a group of people who carry bags and bags full of this stuff. You have Jack the Giant Killer. You have someone who kills werewolves specifically. You have George who kills dragons pretty specifically. And only occasionally...

In other news, this... ...is the best thing I've read all week.

Good for a laugh when playing with people who have been playing D&D for 15+ years. Good for a lot of strange looks and "Wait, what? I need what to even hurt this thing?" when you play with adults who are new-ish to the game. That is, of course, unless you build an entire adventure around...

I think we just have to agree to disagree about what we find fun in the details of gaming. I like tactics that make a difference, not preparation trumping everything else. Also... keeping around the best weapon I've found, plus the best thing with Ghost Touch, plus the best thing with a...

Or maybe, just maybe, there's a point where the D&Disms start to get in the way of fun for a lot of people rather than improving the fun. For example, you are espousing golf bag syndrome here. When was that EVER fun?

Stipulated. That's a valid criticism. For me, that feels like a feature, rather than a bug. Rub off the flavor text and just re-purpose the mechanics with entirely new flavor text. And that wouldn't just be good design, IME. That would be excellent design. I think ENWorld regulars (as...