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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mac Callum" data-source="post: 1682653" data-attributes="member: 17035">Quote: ShallownI see your point clearly. There isn't a rules reason to stop those circumstances. But the rules are a tool to me and not a perfect one. This is one of those things that it might be interesting to run a game where what you say is the absolute truth and everytone is a potential character. I beleive most games don't run this way.Me:  The rules are not perfect by a long-shot, that's why I've changed 'em in my game.  Before I changed them though I gave a lot of thought as to what a "pure" D&D world would look like.  I "embraced the D&D-isms", to use Quasqueton's phrase.  Maybe I broke hong's rule to "Not think too hard about D&D", but I wanted to make a world for my players (friends and relatives all) which was internally consistent with its rules.To me, the easiest way to make sure that a world was both fantastic & strange  mysterious, but not to nerf the players was to allow everything at a cost (higher than the PHB requires), and to allow for break-down over time.  Add in those two elements and everything else falls into place.</blockquote>