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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5654844" data-attributes="member: 177">Wanting true-to-life is a pretty hefty restriction.I could, for example, point you at Nobilis.  In that game, characters may well come into violent conflict, but given that they are, for lack of a better term, demigods, how that plays out seems to have little resemblance to the way fights happen in D&D.  The mechanics don't center on how one inflicts and resists physical damage, because physical damage doesn't mean the same thing to a small god as to a mortal.  The sovereign power of Christmas may well be able to annihilate you, but it won't be through be through using a Power Attach feat to beat you over the head with a candy cane.  It'd be more by inserting you onto the "very, very naughty list"...But, demigod characters aren't particularly true-to-life.</blockquote>