Lets us collect examples of ridiculous inconsistencies from the D&D game, and maybe some ways of removing them. Examples:
1) In D&D (the Expert Rules) a spectre can only be hit by magical weapons, it is close to invisible, it can fly faster than a running horse, it can kill any normal human with a single touch (double energy drain) and the victims rise the next night as new spectres. Since the spectres are presumably evil monsters that would love to kill as many humans as possible, I find it totally inconsistent that the fantasy world is not populated by spectres instead of humans. With the stats given, the spectres wconquer the whole world very easily.
2) Why build expensive castles? As soon as the opposition includes high lever magic users, the castle offers no protection. Its walls can be circumvented with fly, invisibility and teleport, and its garrison can easily be wiped out with fire balls (if not possible in a single day, kill a few soldiers every day with a fire balls and keep going until they are all dead). In a world with such powerful assassins I see hiding as the only possible defense. Sitting on a throne in a castle is being a sitting duck to any magic user. As soon as his whereabouts are known, a fighter is of course easy prey to any magic user who knows 'fly' and 'fire ball'.
3) Why do humans behave as if they are on top of the food chain if they are not? In a world with dragons humans would be animals of prey, living underground as mice, only coming out at night.
4) Why does every fantasy world village contain ten farmhouses and an inn? How many people travel through this small village in the hills? How many people live in the village?
5) Why raise armies? 1000 normal men are insignificant compared to a magic user with fly, invisibility and fire ball. The magic user's ability as an assassin would exert much more military pressure on a decision maker than an army of ridiculous normal men with swords and shields. In other words: the military confrontations that mattered, would be between powerful individuals, not masses of men or goblins. (Everybody knows that goblins are only there for the show, but the men would not matter either).
Please add more examples, and let us ridicule these game designers with no ability for logic reasoning.
1) In D&D (the Expert Rules) a spectre can only be hit by magical weapons, it is close to invisible, it can fly faster than a running horse, it can kill any normal human with a single touch (double energy drain) and the victims rise the next night as new spectres. Since the spectres are presumably evil monsters that would love to kill as many humans as possible, I find it totally inconsistent that the fantasy world is not populated by spectres instead of humans. With the stats given, the spectres wconquer the whole world very easily.
2) Why build expensive castles? As soon as the opposition includes high lever magic users, the castle offers no protection. Its walls can be circumvented with fly, invisibility and teleport, and its garrison can easily be wiped out with fire balls (if not possible in a single day, kill a few soldiers every day with a fire balls and keep going until they are all dead). In a world with such powerful assassins I see hiding as the only possible defense. Sitting on a throne in a castle is being a sitting duck to any magic user. As soon as his whereabouts are known, a fighter is of course easy prey to any magic user who knows 'fly' and 'fire ball'.
3) Why do humans behave as if they are on top of the food chain if they are not? In a world with dragons humans would be animals of prey, living underground as mice, only coming out at night.
4) Why does every fantasy world village contain ten farmhouses and an inn? How many people travel through this small village in the hills? How many people live in the village?
5) Why raise armies? 1000 normal men are insignificant compared to a magic user with fly, invisibility and fire ball. The magic user's ability as an assassin would exert much more military pressure on a decision maker than an army of ridiculous normal men with swords and shields. In other words: the military confrontations that mattered, would be between powerful individuals, not masses of men or goblins. (Everybody knows that goblins are only there for the show, but the men would not matter either).
Please add more examples, and let us ridicule these game designers with no ability for logic reasoning.
Fantasy world inconsistencies
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