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<blockquote data-quote="LurkAway" data-source="post: 5800299" data-attributes="member: 6685059">Do you remember the nods to realism L&amp;L article and threads which differentiated between &quot;realism&quot; and nods to realism? I'm not a purist simulationist. I don't care if katanas do more damage than longswords. Like many people (but we never did get to see the poll results for the nod to realism article, so who knows what percenatage), I do enjoy a game that at least makes some effort to acknowledge some amount of nodding to realism.But by appealing to real-life or nothing, that statement is too black-and-white to have any meaning to me. Just because fantasy is fantasy, it doesn't mean anything goes -- if it did, I could take it to the opposite extreme and insist on pink elephants riding unicycles side by side with a fierce warrior called Bob the Barbarian side by side with a shotgun wielding cowboy. The fact that racial modifiers have existed in D&amp;D for years is indicative that D&amp;D players are interested in a middle-of-the-road approach.I guess for the same reason that I'd be required to put up with a warlord in the party even if I intensely dislike warlords. That is, the player isn't trying to actively punish me by playing a warlord, it's not personal, and I don't think it helps to frame it that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LurkAway, post: 5800299, member: 6685059"] Do you remember the nods to realism L&L article and threads which differentiated between "realism" and nods to realism? I'm not a purist simulationist. I don't care if katanas do more damage than longswords. Like many people (but we never did get to see the poll results for the nod to realism article, so who knows what percenatage), I do enjoy a game that at least makes some effort to acknowledge some amount of nodding to realism. But by appealing to real-life or nothing, that statement is too black-and-white to have any meaning to me. Just because fantasy is fantasy, it doesn't mean anything goes -- if it did, I could take it to the opposite extreme and insist on pink elephants riding unicycles side by side with a fierce warrior called Bob the Barbarian side by side with a shotgun wielding cowboy. The fact that racial modifiers have existed in D&D for years is indicative that D&D players are interested in a middle-of-the-road approach. I guess for the same reason that I'd be required to put up with a warlord in the party even if I intensely dislike warlords. That is, the player isn't trying to actively punish me by playing a warlord, it's not personal, and I don't think it helps to frame it that way. [/QUOTE]

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