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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4981949" data-attributes="member: 80487">I agree, although at some (debatable) point of bolting on chrome -- or, more significantly, of changing basics -- you end up playing "Warlock" or "Arduin" or "Palladium" or "A Better Name Than Catacombs & Catoblepas". The "dialect" so departs from the common tongue of D&D that communication requires translation; it takes on a separate identity.The big advantage is modularity. To a degree, that arises naturally when people are making parts without any coordination; call it lucky if they mesh at all! That's how D&D grew before Gygax selected and synthesized for AD&D, and even the growth of that through two editions was more "organic" than systematic. The publication history was a sort of microcosm of the process of development going on across the hobby.Most of my group has been playing D&D a bit longer than that. We've been doing other things than playing games as well, of course, and that life experience tells.We're comfortable assuming that adventurers are fit and capable of doing competently whatever seems appropriate for adventurers to do. There's just no demand for making sure that Pirate Jenny is +x better at climbing and dancing and swimming and swabbing, or takes a -x penalty when riding or using weapons other than a limited few. If there were, then we could do it just that simply; we're not in competition with one another to accumulate such minutia, so we don't need rules for such a contest.When a factor seems important, we're not at a loss to assess it. If there's no consensus, we're not into arguing either; the DM sets a chance, we roll, and we get on with the game.</blockquote>

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