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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5852451" data-attributes="member: 54877">Designers should do a lot of stuff that is boring to most people--such as getting the math right--not because it is all important to us, but so that it need not be important to us at all.&nbsp;I don't drive down the road thinking, &quot;Awesome the way they got those wheels attached so that they don't come off at random times!&quot; Games are not, and cannot be, engineered to the same degree of robustness as moderately heavy machinery that routinely winds its way at speed. Still, games have their own minimum thresholds that they need to meet. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp;A player might be excited about getting a mere +1 magic sword--in a game where getting such a sword didn't have issues.&nbsp; That was part of the charm of early D&amp;D, after all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5852451, member: 54877"] Designers should do a lot of stuff that is boring to most people--such as getting the math right--not because it is all important to us, but so that it need not be important to us at all. I don't drive down the road thinking, "Awesome the way they got those wheels attached so that they don't come off at random times!" Games are not, and cannot be, engineered to the same degree of robustness as moderately heavy machinery that routinely winds its way at speed. Still, games have their own minimum thresholds that they need to meet. :p A player [B]might[/B] be excited about getting a mere +1 magic sword--in a game where getting such a sword didn't have issues. That was part of the charm of early D&D, after all. [/QUOTE]

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