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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 4813146" data-attributes="member: 1225">I'm not quite sure what makes settings dull; I've found something of interest in most that I've read, with maybe the exception being Kalamar. I really wanted to like it, but for some reason, it just didn't inspire me at all. I never could quite figure out why, though.I don't know about that; I suspect the reason it's overlooked is because it's hard to make it an interesting and exciting part of the game. You either devolve to testing the players' survival knowledge (or rather, their ability to convince the GM that their actions would work in a particular situation) rather than the characters', or it boils down to something like "Roll vs. Survival skill". Either way, it's hard for a game designer to make it interesting.I'd love it if an RPG came up with a way to make Man vs. Nature as interesting a conflict as Man vs. Man, but it's hard to do without creating a baroque subsystem. Does D&D4e have any existing skill challenges that work? 'Cause that would be awesome. Note that PCs tend to be well-armored, and animals tend to lack armor-piercing capabilities. There's a reason why wolves and bears live in a fraction of their former habitats, and need human laws to help them avoid extinction; humans figured out ways to kill 'em a long time ago, and it's not all about guns. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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