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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 9409217" data-attributes="member: 7025997">One of the ironies has always been that D&D, because of its complicated and (by the rest of the world's standards) mathematical ruleset, tends to attract a lot of scientifically minded people, as well as the artsy types who like to tell stories.So there's this tendency to systematize and balance and ask "what if?" attached to a genre that is more descended from the anti-scientific Romantic era (via Tolkien) or fantasies of physical power (via Howard) than anything else, and gameplay that's basically a combination of improvisational theater, gambling, and basic arithmetic. The game is, itself, an owlbear, or perhaps a chimera or opinicus.I actually think it's an interesting creative tension that helps attract different sorts of people, but you do get inconsistencies sometimes.</blockquote>