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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6205120" data-attributes="member: 4937">I didn't really focus on this in my first response, but now that the conversation is drifting along certain lines I feel I ought to mention it now, and that's your assumptions about the playability of the setting using D&D are I think wrong.  Carefully constructed, D&D works just fine for the setting.Return to your example.  The assumption that a PC has 37 hitpoints assumes that Jon Snow is about sixth level.  But if Jon Snow and most of the main characters are 2nd level, the assumption that he can simply shrug off the possibility of wounds is invalidated.  Jon might have say 13 h.p.   While Jon can probably survive having his former lover shoot him with a couple of arrows, he won't be looking too good afterwards.   And if Jon has to fight multiple first level warriors without wearing armor - the key advantage a second level fighter usually has in a fight - then he must take the fight very seriously indeed.   One or two blows and Jon could be looking at his death scene.   A critical hit, and Jon might not even have time to look ruefully at the camera.   And without armor, he's looking at his foes having a 50% chance of hitting him with each attack.  So if the fight goes more than a couple of rounds of intense combat, Jon is almost certainly dead.I think my impression of what little I know of the story, is that the assumption that most characters are introduced as 1st level characters and slowly grow in power at the rate of about 1 level per dozen violent encounters works pretty darn well.  Most characters are introduced young and inexperienced and with the stories many points of view and slow facing most characters remain low level.  And the death toll could be seen as the natural expectation of what happens to 1st level characters in a conflict.  I'm sure I could run 'Song of Ice and Fire' as a gritty very low magic 1e campaign, or even using my 3.X inspired house rules with a less heroic less high magic setting than my homebrew.</blockquote>

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