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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7240916" data-attributes="member: 996">Yep. 'Realism.'&nbsp; Split some hairs, bundle others...&nbsp; &nbsp;That's fairly hypothetical-tree-arbitrarily-falls-in-an-imaginary forest...&nbsp; &nbsp;Straight '10's are apparently pretty common. &nbsp;But that doesn't keep crazy gamers from extrapolating from the mechanics to what the world 'must' look like.&nbsp; &quot;Spiked Chain is best weapon?&nbsp; Must be what everyone uses... &quot;&nbsp; &quot;Elves get +2 DEX and proficiency in rapier &amp; longsword, they must always use the rapier, unless I 'fix' it by giving them finesseable longswords....&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Wall of Iron is permanent?&nbsp; Iron must not be mined in this world, it's all conjured by a wizard's guild.&nbsp; Fabricate?&nbsp; They make all the Full Plate Armor, too!&quot;&nbsp;Yeah.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; One reason the bell curve isn't that great.&nbsp; Maybe orcs roll Strength on 3d3+10?&nbsp; Maybe the implied 3d6+2 but there's some very ahem, strong, un-natural selection for high STR in orc society?&nbsp; Looking at it another way, if you had just plain orcs rather than the orc warriors (or whatever they are) in the MM, they could use the stats of NPCs with racial adjustments. So an orc commoner would have a mere 12 STR.&nbsp;Part of the fun.&nbsp; ;P</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7240916, member: 996"] Yep. 'Realism.' Split some hairs, bundle others... That's fairly hypothetical-tree-arbitrarily-falls-in-an-imaginary forest... Straight '10's are apparently pretty common. But that doesn't keep crazy gamers from extrapolating from the mechanics to what the world 'must' look like. "Spiked Chain is best weapon? Must be what everyone uses... " "Elves get +2 DEX and proficiency in rapier & longsword, they must always use the rapier, unless I 'fix' it by giving them finesseable longswords...." "Wall of Iron is permanent? Iron must not be mined in this world, it's all conjured by a wizard's guild. Fabricate? They make all the Full Plate Armor, too!" Yeah. One reason the bell curve isn't that great. Maybe orcs roll Strength on 3d3+10? Maybe the implied 3d6+2 but there's some very ahem, strong, un-natural selection for high STR in orc society? Looking at it another way, if you had just plain orcs rather than the orc warriors (or whatever they are) in the MM, they could use the stats of NPCs with racial adjustments. So an orc commoner would have a mere 12 STR. Part of the fun. ;P [/QUOTE]

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