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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1555871" data-attributes="member: 725">What a completely useless comment! Especially with the word 'realistic' thrown in. Do you even know what RPG stands for? It's Role Playing Game. You take on a role, you play it, and it's a game. Games have rules, rules can be complex or can be simple, and if all the players agree, can be changed. Remember when you played cops and robbers? When someone shot you, you were supposed to be dead. Is that realistic? No. Was it fun? Hell yes! (at the time)This nonsense about people not playing RPGs anymore but some kind of board game is... i hate to use the word... stupid! The fact that the biggest RPG still around was made from a tactical miniature game is completely beside the point (but worth mentioning). Different groups have different styles of play, some do treat the game as a gloryfied game of chess, but even if you play chess you take on the role of general. Just because some groups don't conform to your 'standards' of play doesn't make other players 'bad' or 'heretics'.If actions are not possible due to the rules then all of the participants haven't agreed to allow a change. This can be due to any number of reasons. People can like the rules how they are, they don't know that they are allowed to change the rules, they are inexperienced. etc. Most RPG rules are very complex, especially if you DM, especially if your an inexperienced DM. Strict rules make the job of the DM a lot easier, but experience usually makes a DM a lot more flexible.Realism in RPGs, as you seem to be refereing to D&D let's take D&D as an example. 5-feet step is not any stranger than hitpoints or throwing a D20 to see if you hit someone, etc. these last two things have been in D&D for decades, some have complaint, some have just enjoyed the game (i'm assmuning you did too). Talking about realism in a fantasy game is ridiculous, not only because magic isn't real or the fact that most monsters couldn't possibly exisyt without magic, but also because if combat was 'realistic' we would have students running around in the sewers, chopping each others heads off. Been there done that, gets so much negative publicity and schoolmates keep staring at you because they think your insane (i keep telling them it was because i was persuing 'realism' ;-)I've been playing RPGs (mostly D&D) in one form or another for more thn 16 years (damn i feel old <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> and i did treat my character as a 'rook' at times, sometimes that was fun, somettimes it wasn't. But 'deep' roleplaying wasn't always fun either, to be honest the most entertaining moments in my RPG 'carreer' didn't have anything to do with 'realism', it had to do with fun.Go back to meditating the zen of role playing games and don't come back unless your absolutely not serious...Next time quote the entire article and stop pimping your own site like that, it's annoyingoverdose</blockquote>

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