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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CroBob" data-source="post: 6059268" data-attributes="member: 6683307">Because realistic = very like real life, and real life = boring. Put on a 40 pound suit of armor, pop that 80 pound ruck-sack on your back, add a weapon to four on there, some knives, maybe some stickychewy, then walk around the country side.Fire some bottle rockets at people who try to pick a fight with you, since there's no such thing as Magic Missiles.Fall ten feet and break both your legs, and then don't get healed by a mystical cleric type.Real life is not a fun setting for the kinds of things people do in D&D. Oh, not to mention all the monsters; Orcs, Goblins, Ogres, Dragons, demons, etc... they don't exist. There are no plots to steal king's souls through seduction, or to tear the prime material plane into the Hells to add a layer and turn the Blood War in the Devils' favor, or to resurrect ancient snake gods, or whatever.D&D has never been remotely realistic, and people claiming they want realism from it, frankly, I don't believe. Or else they'd remove magic, Gods, and everything else that's not realistic. If you want realism, play a game designed to be realistic. I've never found an RPG that was too terribly concerned about being realistic.</blockquote>