Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-26018514-20170613191426

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

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Remnant does not run on DnD rules. Sneak Attacks doing "massive damage" because of some fancy "Sneak Attack Bonus" is not a thing here.

And of course, your whole joke falls flat when you consider a fact: Just because they compared Aura to Halo's shields, it does not mean Remnant runs on DnD rules. They are completely different things, and just because A is like B, it does not mean A is like C too. Thinking that would be a logical fallacy. I'm not saying it does, I'm saying there's the logic path to get there, coded into a system designed designed to simulate combat... which is a major component upon which RWBY's creator was focused, so emulating or taking cues from such a system is plausible.

You really need to dial back on your own BS, this isn't about what makes real world sense, but rather what process the writers/creators use to describe their world... They aren't about to make the most realistic ductwork in a building's blueprints because that is not what they are good at... hell just look at their Cartography failure....

M&K and Monty are not physics experts, they may instead turn to simplified rulesets for answers, and D&D is simplified compared to RL, and it's clones and descendents are everywhere in popular media these days... RoC.

I never put this forth as THE reason or the defining reason, I put this forth as a possibility.