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<blockquote data-quote="Silvercat Moonpaw" data-source="post: 5094319" data-attributes="member: 46652">I think I may have a fix on what's going on here:In video games that feature area exploration certain areas are at the beginning locked off behind a barrier that is at that point in the game impassible.&nbsp; To pass the barrier you need to find an item or complete a quest that will trigger a cut scene that removes the barrier.&nbsp; Removing the barrier has nothing to do with the statistical level of your character.But why that usually isn't used in Pen&amp;Paper RPGs is because while in a video game the obstacle is just impossible to pass without the item or cut scene do to not having completely free locomotion the case is not so in P&amp;P.&nbsp; If you can't climb without an item in a video game you can't scale a wall, but nothing prevents you from doing that in P&amp;P if the wall is of a supposedly scalable type (or the players come up with a crazy scheme to make the wall scalable).&nbsp; Video games can restrict the characters by denying them keys until the right moment, but P&amp;P tends to give characters all possible keys except for a few special ones.&nbsp; Therefore I can't see how you'd make P&amp;P like video games without creating arbitrary restrictions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silvercat Moonpaw, post: 5094319, member: 46652"] I think I may have a fix on what's going on here: In video games that feature area exploration certain areas are at the beginning locked off behind a barrier that is at that point in the game impassible. To pass the barrier you need to find an item or complete a quest that will trigger a cut scene that removes the barrier. Removing the barrier has nothing to do with the statistical level of your character. But why that usually isn't used in Pen&Paper RPGs is because while in a video game the obstacle is just impossible to pass without the item or cut scene do to not having completely free locomotion the case is not so in P&P. If you can't climb without an item in a video game you can't scale a wall, but nothing prevents you from doing that in P&P if the wall is of a supposedly scalable type (or the players come up with a crazy scheme to [i]make[/i] the wall scalable). Video games can restrict the characters by denying them keys until the right moment, but P&P tends to give characters all possible keys except for a few special ones. Therefore I can't see how you'd make P&P like video games without creating arbitrary restrictions. [/QUOTE]

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