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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 4989648" data-attributes="member: 4720">Collapsing it all together is the D&amp;Dism.In folklore you don't have a group of people who carry bags and bags full of this stuff.&nbsp; You have Jack the Giant Killer.&nbsp; You have someone who kills werewolves specifically.&nbsp; You have George who kills dragons pretty specifically.And only occasionally do these even require special metals or magics.&nbsp; Actually... pretty rarely until Hollywood starting popularizing specific ones in this century.By collapsing all this into one person, and doing it for EVERY D&amp;D character, you turn those individual little mystical neat ideas and turn them into a set of uninspiring rules that everyone just knows.Instead of discovering that the big evil Lich you are trying to stop is resistant to mundane weapons, you hit a certain level and say &quot;I might start bumping into Liches.&nbsp; Time to get a cold iron morningstar.&nbsp; I'll put it next to the silver-tipped arrows for werewolves.&quot;We're all characters in that awful Van Helsing movie, apparently.&nbsp; Or we're running a scene out of Abbot and Costello meet Dracula.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 4989648, member: 4720"] Collapsing it all together is the D&Dism. In folklore you don't have a group of people who carry bags and bags full of this stuff. You have Jack the Giant Killer. You have someone who kills werewolves specifically. You have George who kills dragons pretty specifically. And only occasionally do these even require special metals or magics. Actually... pretty rarely until Hollywood starting popularizing specific ones in this century. By collapsing all this into one person, and doing it for EVERY D&D character, you turn those individual little mystical neat ideas and turn them into a set of uninspiring rules that everyone just knows. Instead of discovering that the big evil Lich you are trying to stop is resistant to mundane weapons, you hit a certain level and say "I might start bumping into Liches. Time to get a cold iron morningstar. I'll put it next to the silver-tipped arrows for werewolves." We're all characters in that awful Van Helsing movie, apparently. Or we're running a scene out of Abbot and Costello meet Dracula. [/QUOTE]

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