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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 2787902" data-attributes="member: 5890">You were claiming that stats, class abilities etc etc had no impact on whether one has fun in a game or not, and were somehow totally divorced from roleplaying.The counter-argument is that it's no good roleplaying a burly barbarian if your character sheet says you get arm-wrestled to death by fieldmice.Further, if the entire world suddenly becomes immune to your class abilities (ie - the only monsters you ever meet are golems and undead, and you happen to have focussed heavily on sneak attack), then the game becomes a lot less interesting to play.Like it or not, a big part of a roleplaying game (or any collaborative game) is spotlight time. If your character cannot do anything worthwhile, you don't get spotlight time. If you don't get spotlight time, you may as well be reading a book. A badly written book played by actors with little or no acting talent. Lets face it - if every time Conan was in a bad spot, someone else did the job for him, Conan would not have been the hero.</blockquote>