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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CroBob" data-source="post: 6065991" data-attributes="member: 6683307">I haven't demanded anything. Someone said "Well, these other games totally do the realism thing better than D&D!", so I suggested playing those games instead of D&D, since the problem is realism. Well that was the wrong answer, too. I'm just looking for consistency, and I can't seem to find it. Falling and lava make HPs unbelievable, but so does basically every other situation HPs are relevant, so there's no consistency. I've never lied about this, I do not empathize with her view on the subject. I'm trying to. If I've come off as a jerk for pointing out inconsistency, then maybe I am, in fact, a jerk, but I still don't see any consistency in what makes something more or less realistic to her. It makes as much sense to me as someone saying "I like peanut butter, just not on Tuesdays." Which is fine and all, but it still doesn't make any sense. Nothing about Tuesday is relevant to peanut butter, nothing about falling or lava make HPs any more or less realistic.It's like in D&D 3.5, where taking 50+ damage called for a fort save or you die. But then the higher level you got and the more difficult enemies you fought just meant you rolled those saves more often. A guy with two HPs who loses half his HPs is fine, but a guy with 100 HPs who loses half his HPs is at risk of dying if he rolls a low save? It just punished players, it didn't make anything any more or less realistic. Just like removing the relevance of HPs to falling and your risk of dying only punishes players. What use are having HPs as a measure of how much punishment you can take if you're just going to ignore them in some situations?I'm not saying anybody's wrong, I'm sincerely trying to understand this line of thinking. If that makes me an ass, then I'm an ass. Fine. Whatever.</blockquote>

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