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Indeed I was, to some extent, referring to you, Hank [img]smile.gif[/img]
In a sense one might say your are superimposing you're own reality over an already fictional one created by BI. That is, by pretending that those items sinply don't exist.
After all, if you where roleplaying in any sense of the word, you would hardly pick up an item such as the Shield of Balduran and say, "Oh, dear me, no...those poor beholders. I'll be an honorable bhaalspawn and fight them without this obscene slayer-of-beholders".
Actually, Hank, I think that (at least some of the time, and at least in part), you fall into a third class of BG players. Let's call it the chessgamer.
< / begin broad generalizations>
Powergamers like the best stuff and mercilessly wiping everything in site.
Roleplayers give themselves disadvantages and advantages which are fun to act out.
Chessgamers like to up the difficulty of the game in interesting ways to see if they can develop strategies to overcome the new challenges.
< / end broad generalizations>
In that sense, one can easily understand that it is neither the difficulty of crafting an item nor the general effect of the item on the game, but rather the strategic effect of that item on specific battles that is important.
I might perhaps fall into a fourth category. Being something of an analyst, I like to understand the rules of a system and how they interact. I don't like the fact that an item such had the shield of Balduran doesn't seem to fit the rest of the rules that apply to this world.
Right, I have to go now, so I apologize if I offend anyone with my broad generalizations [img]smile.gif[/img] I'll return tomorrow to apologize if I have done so!
[ 09-20-2004, 11:46 AM: Message edited by: theGrimm ]
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