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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amysrevenge" data-source="post: 4865386" data-attributes="member: 61298">You might just be right.  I'm an engineer (still in academia even), and I know a fair bit about how the world works.  Any game is going to blow my sense of reality.However, I find that this has a different effect than you are suggesting.  For me, since it's not "real" anyway, I can totally handle pretty much any level of fudging with the laws of physics you throw at me.I'm not going to quibble about how long it takes to fall to the ground from a griffon mount that could never fly anyway, even without you riding it, with its huge girth and tiny wing span.I'm happy to accept a -4 penalty to Athletics to swim while wearing plate armor and a huge shield and a great honking sword (that weighs a lot more than a real sword of that size should by a factor or 2-3) that all combined weigh enough that you are not bouyant at all and should sink to the bottom in seconds.Hit points?  Fine by me.Turn-based combat, rather than real-time/simultaneous actions?  No problem.  (From my perspective, going turn-based for combat makes the whole system so un-real that any other thing is too minor to care about in comparison.)</blockquote>