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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7881741" data-attributes="member: 53980">A game is not a book. A book is not a game. (Let's ignore choose your own adventure style books, which while bridging that gap to a degree, are really more game than book.)In a book it's not a problem if the hero gets the stuffing knocked out of him and is laid up for weeks or months recovering. In a book that focuses on a solo character, you might largely fast forward through it. Or focus on their inner turmoil during i5. In a book with a larger cast, other characters can easily have adventures while the injured guy recovers, since the author has no obligation to involve that character.That doesn't work as well in a team oriented game like D&D. It would be crappy to tell the player that they can't play the next few sessions because their character is too beat up. Having them roll up a new character in the interim is certainly an option, but not a great one if the player has any real investment in their character. It can also be annoying for the party to have to sit around and wait for the guy to recover if they're fine and would otherwise have adventures they wish to pursue (it doesn't make sense to sit on your hands for weeks if the innocent dragon's life is threatened, having been kidnapped by an evil princess).Finally, I don't think even Drizzt novels, action oriented as they are, have as much combat as the average D&D campaign. Some things just work better for different forms of entertainment.</blockquote>

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