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I've never understood why people want to chuck realism/verisimilitude out the window just because D&D features dragons and magic.

I don't see it that way. I'm talking about D&D; you're talking about BESM or Exalted. Dungeons & Dragons is the world's flagship fantasy rpg. Mindful of that, I'd like to see it retain at least some semblance of class. Let other games handle the foolishness...

Which means? Are you implying that I'm being disingenuous?

And? Each armour has more or less the same components. That's not the case with a great deal of armour in modern Dungeons & Dragons art. Modern fantasy armour is designed by artists who know little to nothing about armour, who can't seem to be bothered to crack a book on the subject. The...

Quite. To me, saying "I just want it to look cool!" seems like a shallow, fanboyish perspective that emphasizes form over function. It just strikes me as astonishingly crass and ridiculous to scorn the real armour someone posted earlier, a genuine piece of history, while placing trashy...

But the principles and components are the same: a breast and backplate, a skirt of articulated hoops, and pauldrons which articulate in almost exactly the same way. And neither one looks anything like what one typically sees in D&D...

What few other cultures used anything close to full plate armour seem to have adhered to similar design principles as those used in European full plate. A case in point might be the c.1400bc Mycenaean "Dendra armour." Its pauldrons and fauld are constructed in a manner almost identical to...

Bite your tongues, ZoA2 and wormwood. I don't see a beer belly on that three-quarter harness anywhere. It boggles my mind that anybody could prefer the mish-mash junk in the 3e PHB to real armour. That's like the equivalent of thinking Strongbad is aesthetically superior to Rembrandt. It's...

Well, by what name would you prefer that we call the prevailing aesthetic in 3rd Edition D&D art? By whatever name, I hate it, and I really hope it disappears. If I wanted to be confronted with PCs in inelegant, impractical, and visually jarring costumes, festooned with tattoos, body...

I am thrilled that it appears as though at least some armour will add to both your Armour Class and your Fortitude defense, if the Star Wars Saga Edition rules are any indication. Dungeons and Dragons hasn't allowed non-magical armour to actually do you any good when you're damaged since 1st...

As long as the "dungeonpunk" style dies, I'm pretty happy. I am tired of the patented "Lockwood skirt" of lames/strips/whatever that all his characters' outfits seem to sport. Oh, and Lars Grant-West needs to suffer for what he did to armour in the 3rd edition PHB. I hope WotC never employs...

Try to rationalize it however you like, but the notion that armour does nothing to reduce the severity of a wound is just counterintuitive and absurd. There is absolutely no reason that a weapon should have the opportunity to do full damage to you if it has to pass through armour first. I've...

Mercifully, it looks like we'll be spared any such nonsense if the Star Wars Saga Edition rules are any indication of what 4th Edition D&D will be like. They didn't drastically simplify the armours/weapons/spells/etc. there, so I think we're safe...

No, that wouldn't make it more fun; at least not for me. That would be a flavorless game. If I enjoyed abstraction on that level, I'd play FUDGE or something. As another poster said, what if spells were described that blandly? Hell, what if we just described monsters that way? "Generic...

I absolutely do not want to see this come to pass. For me, half the fun of the game is the weapons and armour. Making them more abstract would be boring. I don't expect to see this happen either, since Star Wars Saga Edition does not feature "abstracted" weapons and armour.

My absolute top concern about D&D 4th Edition is how the effects of armour will be represented in the mechanics. I am partial to the "knight in shining armour" archetype, and I want it to be worth my while to wear my full plate all the way to 30th level. I don't want somebody who wears little...

This opinion is every bit as subjective and unfair as the pro-anime crowd are charging the anti-anime folks of being. No offense--to each, his own, and all--but where you see originality in anime art/stoylines, I see just the opposite--anime has a massive list of tropes, memes, and conceits it...

I want in on the anime-hatefest. WTF is it with the recent prominence of it in the West lately? In the last fifteen years or so, it seems to me that the influence of Japanese culture on popular culture in the West has grown exponentially. Most video games seem to have been designed in Japan...

I disagree. I'd rather see them make the Druid look more like a historical druid. Let's please stop misusing the term and leave the eco-terrorism philosophy in the modern world.

35 years is too young to inflict the penalties that arriving at that age incurred in 3.5. Raise "Middle Age" somewhat.