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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7759382" data-attributes="member: 22779">My problem with &quot;basic realism&quot; is that one person's &quot;basic realism&quot; is very, very different from another's.&nbsp; To use the above example - no carrying multiple 10' poles, umm, why not?&nbsp; Bundle them together and you can carry a bunch of them.&nbsp; Not really a problem.&nbsp; I remember one DM I had that just hated the idea that my character was carrying a pole arm.&nbsp; Not even a really big one, something like 10 feet long or something like that.&nbsp; He kept arguing that there would be no way to get it around corners.&nbsp; In a 10 foot wide corridor.&nbsp; When I pointed out that there is actually more space at the corners (Pythagoras and all that), he just refused to budge.&nbsp; Nope, you cannot turn the corner of a 10 foot wide corridor with a 10 foot pole.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid&nbsp; &nbsp; :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />Yeah, one person's &quot;realism&quot; can be pretty darn far from what is actually realistic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7759382, member: 22779"] My problem with "basic realism" is that one person's "basic realism" is very, very different from another's. To use the above example - no carrying multiple 10' poles, umm, why not? Bundle them together and you can carry a bunch of them. Not really a problem. I remember one DM I had that just hated the idea that my character was carrying a pole arm. Not even a really big one, something like 10 feet long or something like that. He kept arguing that there would be no way to get it around corners. In a 10 foot wide corridor. When I pointed out that there is actually more space at the corners (Pythagoras and all that), he just refused to budge. Nope, you cannot turn the corner of a 10 foot wide corridor with a 10 foot pole. :uhoh: Yeah, one person's "realism" can be pretty darn far from what is actually realistic. [/QUOTE]

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