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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8455888" data-attributes="member: 7025508">This has far more to do with niche protection than with exact power. If one member of the party can do everything you do, except better, that might be an issue. But if no one else can really do, say, thievery stuff, it doesn't really matter terribly much if you're optimally competent at it. You just need to be more competent than rest of the party so that it is your niche.Even the nebulous assumed generic fantasy of D&amp;D has some assumed fiction. If it wouldn't we wouldn't have fluff. And be perfectly honest, completely aside of any mechanics balance issues etc, does it really make sense to you if eight feet people are not any stronger than three feet tall people? And not just these two species, there are several larger than human species and several smaller than humans species. Does it really seem believable, that all of them just happen to be exactly equally strong despite massive differences of size?I fully get that some people value balance over representing this, but I really don't think it should be hard to get that some people feel that this is something the mechanics perhaps should try to represent. To me main purpose of RPG mechanics is to codify underlying reality in a manner that allows resolving tasks and situations via rules. At the point the rules stop representing the underlying fiction, the rules lose their purpose to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8455888, member: 7025508"] This has far more to do with niche protection than with exact power. If one member of the party can do everything you do, except better, that might be an issue. But if no one else can really do, say, thievery stuff, it doesn't really matter terribly much if you're optimally competent at it. You just need to be more competent than rest of the party so that it is your niche. Even the nebulous assumed generic fantasy of D&D has some assumed fiction. If it wouldn't we wouldn't have fluff. And be perfectly honest, completely aside of any mechanics balance issues etc, does it really make sense to you if eight feet people are not any stronger than three feet tall people? And not just these two species, there are several larger than human species and several smaller than humans species. Does it really seem believable, that all of them just happen to be exactly equally strong despite massive differences of size? I fully get that some people value balance over representing this, but I really don't think it should be hard to get that some people feel that this is something the mechanics perhaps should try to represent. To me main purpose of RPG mechanics is to codify underlying reality in a manner that allows resolving tasks and situations via rules. At the point the rules stop representing the underlying fiction, the rules lose their purpose to me. [/QUOTE]

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