Delta said:
My attitude is that the in-game language and roles should be exactly the same as the rules-based language we use.
Ugh! So then, in your games, every person from an uncivilized culture has to have levels in the Barbarian class or they aren't
really barbarians? Every single knight has to have levels in the Knight class? People go around calling themselves Rogues? People make a distinction between Warriors and Fighters?
-"No sir, I am not a warrior, I am a Fighter!"-
People refer to themselves as Fighter/Rogue/Wizards when describing their professions? People refer to their alignments, levels, and hit points, and discus their +1 longswords and the like?!
That seems very... odd, to me. Odd, restrictive, and making for very stilted dialog. Do the characters in your games
really talk like the characters in Order of the Stick?!
Usually, people in favor of disconnecting the two are people who'd prefer to dismiss the whole class-based system in its entirety (and are engaged in a project to break down the whole system).
Where on Earth did you ever get this idea?! I am fully in favor of the class system for D&D and would never want to see it go, but I would never even
think of restricting my in-character speech to game terminology. In my games, and the games I play in, common people mostly have no idea about the differences between Wizards and Sorcerers and use the terms interchangeably, or call them mages. Common people, and a hell of a lot of adventurers with no knowledge of the planes, use the terms Demon and Devil interchangeably.
I am very curious as to where you get the notion that those of us who would never use game mechanics terminology in-character (which includes
everyone I have ever gamed with) want to get rid of the class based system.
