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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 515868" data-attributes="member: 2205">Hey, that's not true of the d20 system.&nbsp; Have you checked out d20 Modern?&nbsp; You can be skilled in all kinds of things in that game.&nbsp; It is, however, true of D&amp;D -- and I imagine always will be.&nbsp; Since that is true, and that's not a logical basis for world-building, trying to create a world based on the rules that is logically consistent will be pretty darned difficult.&nbsp; You get all kinds of logical absurdities, wherein the only blacksmith's who are really good at smithing are those that go kill orcs one weekend a month, so they can level up and take skill points in craft (smithing) or something like that.Also, the rules are constructed as a framework for PCs and PC adventures.&nbsp; Sure, some consistency &quot;around the world&quot; is nice, but by applying PC rules to the whole world and trying to make it make sense, you're taking the rules out of the context in which they were written.&nbsp; These conclusions are not only fairly silly, but they're impossible to arrive at if you understand this clearly (and I think the world-building chapter in the DMG makes this implied point fairly well: although I haven't read that in probably two years now, so I don't recall the details.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 515868, member: 2205"] Hey, that's not true of the d20 system. Have you checked out [i]d20 Modern[/i]? You can be skilled in all kinds of things in that game. It is, however, true of D&D -- and I imagine always will be. Since that is true, and that's not a logical basis for world-building, trying to create a world based on the rules that is logically consistent will be pretty darned difficult. You get all kinds of logical absurdities, wherein the only blacksmith's who are really good at smithing are those that go kill orcs one weekend a month, so they can level up and take skill points in craft (smithing) or something like that. Also, the rules are constructed as a framework for PCs and PC adventures. Sure, some consistency "around the world" is nice, but by applying PC rules to the whole world and trying to make it make sense, you're taking the rules out of the context in which they were written. These conclusions are not only fairly silly, but they're impossible to arrive at if you understand this clearly (and I think the world-building chapter in the DMG makes this implied point fairly well: although I haven't read that in probably two years now, so I don't recall the details.) [/QUOTE]

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