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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 2292759" data-attributes="member: 1335">Ketjak,Thanks. That's very interesting food for thought. I'm going to have to think about that some more. I'm not sure I'm convinced that a stat block is the equivalent of a user interface screen, but it's an interesting (and new, to me) way of looking at it.(If you break RPGs down to their bare minimum components, an NPC you talk to, an NPC that you work with and an NPC that you fight are very, very different aspects of the game, and the basic rules treat them very differently. It's only when you put the trappings of the setting that they look like the same thing. It might be just as apt a comparison to say that they're more like a web browser, an email client and a spreadsheet--they do such different things that they need a different interface. [That analogy could use some work. It's the best I can do on short notice. Like I said, I need to think about this some more.])</blockquote>