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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 7391656" data-attributes="member: 6750908">This argument, right here, invalidates the rest of your post-- this is a massive unexamined assumption which, if you would take the time to examine it, you would hopefully realize is purely personal preference couched in a great deal of misplaced moral outrage.Most RPGs, especially 21st century RPGs, do not even attempt to function as fantasy physics simulators.  All of them engage in abstractions and ellipses for the sake of ease and fun of gameplay, including the fact that they have character mechanics that represent multiple in-game realities. It does neither the gameworld nor your understanding of it any harm to add to those abstractions a piece at a time in a campaign.If it helps, remember that last campaign's abstractions need not apply to your next campaign, either--the game's fiction resets to its default state with the game itself.Think, for a second, about the six billion and counting human beings on this planet, the thousands of species of complex non-human animals, all of the varied sports and crafts and religions that exist on Earth-- and how many whole libraries of unique books exist to catalog it all, and failing. D&D core is what, 800 pages?Even the most laser-focused campaign setting, an anti-kitchensink like Dark Sun, is going to be orders of magntude more complicated with multiple societies of more-or-less cosmopolitan sophonts, the verifiable existence of multiple forms of magic, and all of the trappings of a good D&D game.At the height of its workforce, WotC could never have produced a campaign setting with rules for every option that players would like to try out. Perhaps it was easier in the 3.5 era when monster stats translated directly into PC rules-- but surely you remember what an unmitigated trainwreck those rules were. The judicious use of reskinning allows a DM to provide options for their players with a minimum of writing their own mechanics wholecloth-- they use existing rules where they can, and then only patch over the holes with homebrew.</blockquote>

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