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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6858798" data-attributes="member: 42582">In the OotS, the PCs and NPCs use the numbers on their character sheets to "determine who is best".OotS is generally considered a parody.As I play D&D, the numbers on the character sheet or the monster stat block are not, themselves, elements of the fiction. They are mechanical devices used by real people in the real world to generate outcomes in the fiction. It is those outcomes that establish whether or not, in the fiction, a certain character is Holmes-like. There is no requirement, to generate such outcomes, that the character have any particular numbers written on the character sheet or stat block.I am not saying that the way I play is the only way. In fact, clearly this thread has demonstrated that there are some D&D players who think the numbers on a sheet or in a stat block are more important than the actual events of play. But that way is not more canonical than my preferred approach.</blockquote>