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<blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7172459" data-attributes="member: 6895991">Still you play in a game system with vancian casting you know it is called that way because of Jack Vance?Read some stuff of Cordwainer Smith it is science&nbsp; fiction as much as fantasy but he had beast headed humanoids in the early sixties.You use alignment? Want to know where some of this philosophy comes from?Read Michael Morcocks Elric. Oh theres more to that Melnibonese are quite similar to drow in their attitude and as evil as you can imagine. Oh the sword Stormbringer and elemental lords are in there to as are some archdemons and a true neutral place.You like planescape or teleporters gates and such?Try the book World of tiers from Phillip Jose Farmer.All of these are epic classics and you think just because you adopt stupid RL philosophies and offsprings of some MPORPGS&nbsp; into your game you think you are modern and advanced and your way of all things equal is the right way to play superheros in a pseudohistoric RPG.If you do not like fluff why not leave it out totally:Player A roll attack for Monster X Your Y-Weapon hits for 5 points of damage plus the unified strength modifier of +2, oh no lets take the average of weapon Y for equality, see what I mean?You know what the first thing was that I hated about WoW when I tried it out and I admit played it for 3 years 12 years ago?&nbsp; That on level up it would distribute attribute raises automatically. I hated that. Every freakin Tauren warrior without equipment at level 60 would have absolutely the same stats, That's so bland that's like pokemon that's for kids who don't have math at school but not for intellectual people.We all know D&amp;D&nbsp; is not an acurate simulation, that is not the main point.But us old schoolers see challenges in differences where as you seem to see the challenge in making everything equal and every obstacle easy to overcome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Coroc, post: 7172459, member: 6895991"] Still you play in a game system with vancian casting you know it is called that way because of Jack Vance? Read some stuff of Cordwainer Smith it is science fiction as much as fantasy but he had beast headed humanoids in the early sixties. You use alignment? Want to know where some of this philosophy comes from? Read Michael Morcocks Elric. Oh theres more to that Melnibonese are quite similar to drow in their attitude and as evil as you can imagine. Oh the sword Stormbringer and elemental lords are in there to as are some archdemons and a true neutral place. You like planescape or teleporters gates and such? Try the book World of tiers from Phillip Jose Farmer. All of these are epic classics and you think just because you adopt stupid RL philosophies and offsprings of some MPORPGS into your game you think you are modern and advanced and your way of all things equal is the right way to play superheros in a pseudohistoric RPG. If you do not like fluff why not leave it out totally: Player A roll attack for Monster X Your Y-Weapon hits for 5 points of damage plus the unified strength modifier of +2, oh no lets take the average of weapon Y for equality, see what I mean? You know what the first thing was that I hated about WoW when I tried it out and I admit played it for 3 years 12 years ago? That on level up it would distribute attribute raises automatically. I hated that. Every freakin Tauren warrior without equipment at level 60 would have absolutely the same stats, That's so bland that's like pokemon that's for kids who don't have math at school but not for intellectual people. We all know D&D is not an acurate simulation, that is not the main point. But us old schoolers see challenges in differences where as you seem to see the challenge in making everything equal and every obstacle easy to overcome. [/QUOTE]

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