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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 8286584" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>ALL DM tools are imprecise and, as you say, &quot;had issues.&quot; Maps are published at such small sizes that fine detail in some areas was lost, but I've never heard anyone say &quot;Oh well let's just scrap the maps.&quot; Hit Points are really iffy on whether they are meat damage or luck or dodging or divine intervention or what, but I've never heard anyone say, &quot;Oh well let's just scrap hit points.&quot; I cannot think of a single DM tool that works perfect, or has ever worked perfect. But, we use them because with experience they can be helpful broad guidelines that save the DM time so they can drill down on their way to play with it. All the tools are a broad abstraction they DMs need to fiddle with at times, but throwing them out because they lack precision and perfection is a bad argument. It would mean none of the DMs side tools ever would be continued if that were a good argument for throwing a rule out.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 8286584, member: 2525"] ALL DM tools are imprecise and, as you say, "had issues." Maps are published at such small sizes that fine detail in some areas was lost, but I've never heard anyone say "Oh well let's just scrap the maps." Hit Points are really iffy on whether they are meat damage or luck or dodging or divine intervention or what, but I've never heard anyone say, "Oh well let's just scrap hit points." I cannot think of a single DM tool that works perfect, or has ever worked perfect. But, we use them because with experience they can be helpful broad guidelines that save the DM time so they can drill down on their way to play with it. All the tools are a broad abstraction they DMs need to fiddle with at times, but throwing them out because they lack precision and perfection is a bad argument. It would mean none of the DMs side tools ever would be continued if that were a good argument for throwing a rule out. [/QUOTE]

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