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Message: <blockquote data-quote="A'koss" data-source="post: 2128911" data-attributes="member: 840">We used to have these discussions all the time on RGFD, lots of (rather opinionated) fun... A "real life" world with D&Disms would look very different indeed but a lot will depend on how long an "intelligent" humanity has been on earth and did they have to compete with every race in the Monter Manuals while doing so. Certain spawn-creating, intelligent and incorporeal undead like the wraith (who are not bound to any one location) could very likely spread like a virus and take over the entire world - crushing nearly all others through sheer numbers. And if not the undead, there are many, many other more worthy races to rise to dominance than humans and the other PC races. And may the Gods help you if you have Epic Level monsters running around in the world. Direct and continual divine intervention may be the only way humanity would have a chance in such a world. Barring that however, D&D advancement can improve you in virtually every facet of your being. But think about what some of the numbers would mean in the real world. No one in the history of mankind had anything approaching a 30+ Charisma. What would meeting such a person be like? Or how about a 30+ Wisdom? Or someone who had both?  What is it to be so powerful that you could literally kill everyone in a city in hand-to-hand combat. Or wizards who were one-man armies. Invisbility, Mind Blank, Flight, Teleportation... Go ahead, frag that ugly suburb... who's going to know? Power corrupts and all that... What laws could control them? Hell, death itself is a minor inconvenience at best for high level guys. What if one group rose to such power that they could steamroll over all opposition? Oh, I could go on and on and on with this topic...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  Cheers!</blockquote>

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