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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9163491" data-attributes="member: 23751">Realism doesn't work that way.  First off, it's a spectrum. Your tolerance for what is unrealistic as far as wheelchair movement might be greater or less than mine.  It's not all or nothing.  Second, each individual thing is on a separate spectrum.  I might feel strongly about falling damage being realistic and come up with a more realistic approximation for falling damage and speeds, yet not at all feel the need to model armor and weapon degradation and upkeep in any way at all.  It's not hypocritical to have varied levels of realism for the different things in the game.Now if I were to as a DM rule that your PC in his wheelchair could not possible be moved through two foot deep mud because it's not realistic, then when you had your turn to DM I argued that my wheelchair bound PC should be able to move through two feet of mud, THAT would be hypocritical.  I'd never do that, though.Third, a lot of us do run low str/con people through the realism wringer when it comes to walking through two feet of mud or walking up 1000 stairs.  There would be stat checks, exhaustion and resting in that PC's future in my game and in many other games.  Stats mean things.</blockquote>