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<blockquote data-quote="FourthBear" data-source="post: 4299259" data-attributes="member: 55846">Well, I wouldn't go that far.&nbsp; Consistency is useful for establishing fairness and helping to support verisimilitude.&nbsp; However, game rules are often abstractions that are meant to facilitate enjoyable play and emulate genres.&nbsp; I also think that before a DM begins significant reverse engineering or construction of game elements, they should always ask themselves if the resources they are putting towards this will be paid off for in what happens at the table.&nbsp; You can spend entire evenings deconstructing and generating stats for every member of a village, but if in likely play, the characters never see any outcome of those stats, your hard earned efforts would have been better served thinking more about the plots and personalities going on in town.I think this is an excellent case.&nbsp; Why does a DM need to reverse engineer anything to justify a change in AC?&nbsp; Unless you're grossly off the appropriate AC, is there going to be an audit of opponent stats at some point?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FourthBear, post: 4299259, member: 55846"] Well, I wouldn't go that far. Consistency is useful for establishing fairness and helping to support verisimilitude. However, game rules are often abstractions that are meant to facilitate enjoyable play and emulate genres. I also think that before a DM begins significant reverse engineering or construction of game elements, they should always ask themselves if the resources they are putting towards this will be paid off for in what happens at the table. You can spend entire evenings deconstructing and generating stats for every member of a village, but if in likely play, the characters never see any outcome of those stats, your hard earned efforts would have been better served thinking more about the plots and personalities going on in town. I think this is an excellent case. Why does a DM need to reverse engineer anything to justify a change in AC? Unless you're grossly off the appropriate AC, is there going to be an audit of opponent stats at some point? [/QUOTE]

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