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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6044372" data-attributes="member: 17106">A wild boar would probably also toast you and me. The RL hunters you're getting at are probably pretty skilled, and would not be represented in D&D as commoners, nor would they remain 1st level for all that long.We sure go through a lot of trouble to simulate things in this non-simulation game.Combat is synonymous with heroism?Anything other than combat is mundane?The entire premise is that you're playing out an imaginary story in a group setting. That won't change.Then again, you're right that any new direction (perceived or acual) is likely to anger some people.Perhaps the system should be meant to do skills better.Wow, that sounds really hard!It is already the case, though. As an open-ended game, D&D already varies this much, and rulebooks either accept that or ignore it.Hands up everyone who adhered 100% to that baseline. 90%? 50%? 5%?What is the game about?Because D&D is the definitional tabletop rpg, the only one available at most vendors, the only one that even most genre nerds have ever heard of, and the only one that most of its players will ever play.This doesn't have to always be true, and 4e has gone a long way towards raising the profile of other rpgs, but at the moment D&D is still the only game in town for most of us.</blockquote>