» Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:15 pm Point of the Thread: Do you feel that the dice rolling systems like the D20 and D10 system are accurate portrayals of real life?
I ask this because my friends and I are avid Tabletop RPG players. However, some of my friends are far more serious about the concept of dice rolling than I am. They feel that that DnD D20 system is a very elegant and poignant metaphor for human development and activity.
I personally disagree, and even feel that it's a little weird that they'd try to condense the complexity of life down to something like a dice roll. Even with the inclusion of skill ranks, and modifiers, it still doesn't make sense.
People do not fail or succeed with the same frequency or effect that a typical DnD's dice rolls imply a person fails or succeeds. Imagine if every time you made a pot of pasta there was a 50% chance that your house would burn down, or you'd utterly botch the cooking, even if you'd cooked pasta your whole life.
Furthermore, cooking pasta is, itself, a complicated task in terms of what humans do during that process. It involves logic, motion, prior knowledge, as well as cooking, and to condense it down to one concept like "roll for cooking" just comes off as kind of childish and na?ve.
So yeah, this got me thinking, what do all the good folks at gamesas think about this idea? Do you think life can be explained away with a concept like some "magical D20" in the sky determine your fate?
Discuss.
