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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Replicant" data-source="post: 297610" data-attributes="member: 392">Sacred Cows must be preservedAs has been stated eloquently in so many posts, D&D needs its sacred cows -- levels, AC and hit points -- to remain the game so many have come to know and love.  Take these out in favor of a more realistic, grim-and-gritty system, and you may as well toss out every module you've ever bought.  They don't mesh with a realistic system.For example, try playing Against the Giants using characters with 20 hit points.  One hill giant would mash the best fighter in the land with a single blow. 20 of them would decimate a party, easy.If you want such a system, fine.  I myself love these kinds of systems for occasional changes of pace.  The point is, they're out there already.  Try BRP (Basic Role playing).  Everything that's been described -- fixed HP, armor that absorbs damage, increased defense bonuses (parry and dodge rolls) -- is part of BRP.  It makes for a wonderful grim and gritty, realistic system.  I recommend it highly for anyone wanting such a system.  Stormbringer has BRP for its mechanic, and its currently in print.The point is, D&D is something entirely different.  It's epic, cinematic.  Unrealistic, if you want to call it that. But the system allows characters to do things grim-and-gritty systems don't, and in my opinion those sacred cows are why D&D is universally regarded as the premiere fantasy role playing game in existence.</blockquote>

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