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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tonym" data-source="post: 880294" data-attributes="member: 4127">Haha, that was funny.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />Strangely, it reminded me of a DM I once gamed with.  (This was an RPG played at a table, mind you--not over the internet.)Here's a portion of that game...DM: As you step from the woods, you see in the distance a wall.Me: What kind of wall?DM: A wall.Me: What is it made of?DM: You can't be sure.Me: Does it look like it's made of something I never saw before?DM: No. Me: Does it look like stone?DM: No.Me: Does it look like wood?DM: Yes.Me: Like a wall around a town?DM: Yes.Me: How tall is the wall?DM: You don't know.Me: Can I tell 'roughly' how tall it is?DM: No.Me: Is there anything around the wall that I might use as a reference to estimate its size?DM: There is a soldier standing near the wall.Me: A human soldier?DM: You can't tell what race he is.Me: Can I judge the height of the wall based on the height of the soldier?DM: Since you don't know his race, no.Me: How many times 'taller' than the soldier is the wall?DM: About five times taller.Me: If the soldier was six feet tall, then the wall would be around 30 feet tall.  Does this seem possible to my character?DM: (reluctantly) Yes.Man, that was a painfully slow adventure.  I remember it taking around five minutes to convince the DM to let my character set a normal book on fire.Got a great DM now, though!<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />Tony M</blockquote>

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