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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6053144" data-attributes="member: 29398">As some have said, making the game 100% realistic just won't work -  even beyond the magic issue - as things would largely grind to a halt.That said, where realism *can* be easily inserted I'd prefer it if it was.  Some examples of where realism can be (re)inserted to the game without upsetting too many apple carts: - rerolling or randomizing initiative order each round to reflect the chaos of any battle - at least a vague passing nod to facing rules: a shield can't help you against everyone when you're surrounded, etc. - allowing or forcing things - particularly movement and spellcasting - to take time within a combat round; as in "You start your [spell, move] on initiative x, it'll take y amount of time, so you'll be done on initiative z" - allowing simultaneous actions in combat - maybe use a much smaller initiative die with the expectation that lots happens in each segment - in other words, move away from the very unrealistic strict turn-based system - going to a body-fatigue or wound-vitality h.p. system (though all h.p. have to have at least a tiny "meat" quotient otherwise poison becomes mostly useless) - forcing an aiming roll for all non-targeted spells - henches, hirelings, cohorts, guides, etc. should appear much more often - a sphere is a sphere, not pixellated or "squared" - everything (stats, h.p., spell and-or skill access, etc.) is on a bell curve, as that's how reality works; and balance be damned - alignments are shades of gray rather than black-and-white; and everybody has one - a default, clearly stated, that basic things (weather, gravity, magnetism, plant and animal life, etc.) work the same as they do on Earth unless the DM declares otherwise - some serious restraint on the art department; it's easier to take a realistic image and use imagination to add the fantastic than it is to take an over-the-top image and imagine it toned down, and the game's art sets the overall tone for the game (in 4e Worlds and Monsters pretty much had it right, but for some reason it fell apart after that) - provide a reasonable physics-based reason as to what magic is and why it works.  It's not difficult - it can't be; as I've already done it for my own game surely a trained professional game designer can come up with something better in a heartbeat.Lan-"denying any irresponsibility for apples falling out of carts"-efan</blockquote>

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