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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2929104" data-attributes="member: 13164">I don't know what to tell you about what it is (I already attempted to explain that and clearly failed), but from where I stand the point of realism is not to force players to play average characters.  In the sense that D&D is a game about heroes who are something more than the average of their race, that would actually be unrealistic.  Representing heroes in a way that is accurate and true to life can involve point-buy or rolling on a scale likely to generate heroic characters.  The difference is that with rolling everyone isn't going to be "equal" unless they all happen to roll the same way.  I guess that's what the person who originally mentioned real life was trying to say.I went back and re-read a lot of the thread and I think I found where you got into realism.  I can't put words in DerHauptman's mouth, but after reading post #181 I didn't get any sense of "realism" either way.  It's just a method of selecting individuals of a certain power level or range of power levels, nothing more and nothing less.  One person used a real-world example is what brought up the whole debate about the realism issue, but I don't see the point in continuing arguing about realism if that's the only reason it started in the first place.</blockquote>