Our world through the eyes of a D&D inhabitant

[Bullgrit]

Say we all live in a D&D world, governed by D&D laws of nature and science/magic. Our friend wants to run us through a new game called Houses & Humans (or whatever more clever name you want to give it), in a campaign setting called “Earth.” As you read the rules of the game and the campaign setting material, what do you find wrong, stupid, crazy, non-sensical, etc.? What would immediately have to be house ruled? Heck, would you even actually play it?

Bullgrit
Total Bullgrit

 

[Drkfathr1]

I think the first thing I'd have to house rule to fix would be the economy.

 

[Scribble]

The enormous amount of energy it actually takes to make soemthing move.

Teleportation of matter breaks some of the fundamental laws of physics rules and requires a complex subset of partical physics laws???

Dude that is so lame. It should just be a percentage chance.

 

[Scribble]

What do you mean th amount of damage I can take is not directly related to what I do for a living???

How the heck does THAT work???

 

[Mark Hope]

What do you mean th amount of damage I can take is not directly related to what I do for a living???

How the heck does THAT work???

Even worse, any serious amount of damage impairs my ability to act, think, move or function in any real way. Stupidly unfair and clearly biased against the players.

 

[Scribble]

Even worse, any serious amount of damage impairs my ability to act, think, move or function in any real way. Stupidly unfair and clearly biased against the players.

Seriously... what the heck were they thinking with that?!? I mean seriously, so I have a couple arrows in my leg... why the heck should that stop me from running somewhere???

 

[JDJblatherings]

An occupant of a D&D world would be surprised that in a Papers and Paycheks world a wound inflicted from virtually any source has the potential to be debilitating and infected.

The very notion of enduring injuries would baffle them. When was the last time a D&D world occupant had to worry about a broken leg for all that long?

 

[Xyxox]

Say we all live in a D&D world, governed by D&D laws of nature and science/magic. Our friend wants to run us through a new game called Houses & Humans (or whatever more clever name you want to give it), ... <snip>

Bullgrit
Total Bullgrit

That would be Papers and Paychecks, according to the 1E DMG.

 

[drothgery]

How is this not broken? A five-minute activity known as an 'internet search' can give you vast amounts of information about virtually anything? No summoning a demon to ask it? No communing with the gods? No spending months tracking down great libraries or sages or ancient tomes? You just use some sort of mechanical information store?

 

[Zaruthustran]

The Lawyer class is broken, and should be banned.