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Message: <blockquote data-quote="replicant2" data-source="post: 3330280" data-attributes="member: 16498">I understand where you're coming from here, and from a realism standpoint, I agree. The problem is, if that's what you want, then D&D probably isn't game for you. Why?If you start to look at everything through the lens of realism, the whole game falls apart.Here's an example: A simple spell like fireball. What does it do? It engulfs its target in a blossom of flame. The heat is such that it (per the PHB), "sets fire to combustibles and damages objects in the area. It can melt metals (emphasis mine) with low melting points, such as lead, gold, copper, silver, and bronze."Want to guess what that would do to a human? Melt skin, fry hair, boil eyeballs in their sockets, and other assorted nastiness. If you start insisting that knife thrusts can and should be able to kill or maim a warrior, common sense dictates something like fireball would be insta-kill or insta-maim, no saving throw.You could go on and on. For example, who could ever survive a blow from a 10' ogre's steel shod club? Even a man in field plate would have his helmet and skull stove in with a single blow by something that size swinging a weapon that large and heavy. Even an interposed shield = shattered shield, shattered arm, and said warrior incapacitated in writhing agony, or unconscious.Is this the kind of realism you want? Perhaps, but it will soon no longer resemble the D&D we've come to know and love.</blockquote>

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