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Originally posted by Hank Parsons:
I'm not necessarily saying this is fun or good-gaming, but it IS realistic. I don't think you can argue against the realism of a flying dragon slaughtering a party of humans and demi-humans. What's unrealistic is the party killing dragons, the most powerful mortal creatures in the world, without sacrifices and loss of life. Dragons sitting on the ground and falling to sword-pricks and giving up their thousand-year hordes is unrealistic. If you kill them with heroic valor and realistic losses, then it is epicly believeable.
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No, it is not reaslistic that you don't see the dragon before it breathweapons you, no it is not realistic you don't have some time to buff up. I just looked some stuff up, and the larger dragon categories all have one thing in common: they cannot hide. They have an even worse move silently score! E.g. a very old red dragon: Hide +2, MoveSilently +0. A lvl 14 party (that's a minimum) is going to see that from a LONG distance away. Making it very unrealistic that you're suddenly bombarded by a fireball that will ultimately kill at least one person.
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Originally posted by Hank Parsons:
The problem is that the critics here are not answering this question: is it fun? Time and time again, they are claiming it is unreasonable, wrong, unprofessional, implausible, unrealistic, etc. I am merely answering those accusations (which are, in many cases, patently incorrect and unimaginative, and contrary to the flexible and creative spirit of D&D).
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All these things you named, and the fact that the mod cheats against you(beholders seeing where an invisible character is to target it with antimagic ray, mind flayers suddenly casting 6 unavoidable vamptouches, colossal dragons being able to not be spotted in time, a undead vampire actually not being undead, every lowlife sahuagin being far a better archer than the party, trolls that cast spells clerics have to train YEARS for to possibly attain them) , do indeed make it not fun.
[ 09-01-2004, 07:46 AM: Message edited by: JrKASperov ]