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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 2113690" data-attributes="member: 19998">The rules are not the physics of the world. The rules are to facilitate gameplay. Rules exist to keep things fair, to make fair chalenges posible. They are not physics. I have never, in all the games I've played in, in all the games I have ever sold, and all the customers I have ever talk to in five years at working at a game store met anyone else who has ever said. I say this, not to disagree with you. It was long established that your game in far diffrent from mine. I say this so that you know that there are likely a great many people who do not thnk that rules are physics. I also say this so that you understand that I refuse (we are moving into emotional discorse, not logical, so you may wish to keep that in mind) to look at rules in such a fashion. RPGs in general, and D&D in particular, appeal to me precisely because they do not model the real world. They are imaginary constructs that exist to give me a few hours of escapist entertainment. I could watch TV, I suppose, but RPGs a simply more fun to me. To sugest that fluff is just as important to rules is, to me, to sugest that I need to be a slave to bad fiction written under deadline by a person who may or may not use the fluff in their own game. It sugests to me that what this person wrote is more important than the material created by me and my players. Fluff in an RPG book is just words on dead trees. It has no life untill a gaming group breaths life into it. The breath of life given by gaming groups is a strang thing and it may not match what is on the paper. It may not match what was in the mind of the game designer. What me and my players create though gameplay is 100x more important than anything Monte Cook, SKR, Andy Collins, or even E. Gary Gygax wrote about their gameing worlds when it comes to my game. I'm not saying this to disparage people who's work I admire enough to purchase and place on my gameing self, I say it so that you understand that I look at RPGs as a social game and I'm more interested in what comes out of my game.</blockquote>

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