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<blockquote data-quote="Dandu" data-source="post: 6186073" data-attributes="member: 85158"><p>Meanwhile, fighters are committing acts of mass murder without suffering any of the emotional trauma associated with such acts, which is psychopathic or sociopathic behavior.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Do physics graduate students strike you as particularly mentally unbalanced, or likely to aspire to world domination?</p><p> </p><p></p><p>In the USA, people feel much the same about rich lawyers, yet many of our presidents have been such.</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Let me stop you right there. No D&D world really models the middle ages. Peasants are not landless serfs who are dying of disease and starvation left and right, there is a healthy, prosperous middle class, literacy is near-universal - with the barbarian class being the only one that is illiterate, a feat not even the humble commoner peasant can boast of - which implies higher levels of education...</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Polytheism says "hi". The D&D pantheons vary by setting but always have multiple gods and the default one has two gods of magic, in which case you'd expect their followers to approve of wizards.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">And how do you get wealth and titles? By kicking dragon arse and taking orc names, which both fighters and wizards will do.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Though as any true mastermind will tell you, the best position to be in is the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_behind_the_throne" target="_blank">power behind the throne</a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">. Now you tell me, is a wizard or fighter more likely to secure that position?</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Ah, the law. A domain populated by lawyers... which wizards resemble more than fighters.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">And if you can manipulate the lord, you gain the knight as well, no?</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">A wizard could revolutionize the world, or, if high enough level, simply blast it to bits.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If you would like a demonstration, I could provide one.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dandu, post: 6186073, member: 85158"] Meanwhile, fighters are committing acts of mass murder without suffering any of the emotional trauma associated with such acts, which is psychopathic or sociopathic behavior. Do physics graduate students strike you as particularly mentally unbalanced, or likely to aspire to world domination? In the USA, people feel much the same about rich lawyers, yet many of our presidents have been such. [FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Let me stop you right there. No D&D world really models the middle ages. Peasants are not landless serfs who are dying of disease and starvation left and right, there is a healthy, prosperous middle class, literacy is near-universal - with the barbarian class being the only one that is illiterate, a feat not even the humble commoner peasant can boast of - which implies higher levels of education...[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Polytheism says "hi". The D&D pantheons vary by setting but always have multiple gods and the default one has two gods of magic, in which case you'd expect their followers to approve of wizards.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]And how do you get wealth and titles? By kicking dragon arse and taking orc names, which both fighters and wizards will do.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Though as any true mastermind will tell you, the best position to be in is the [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_behind_the_throne"]power behind the throne[/URL][FONT=Verdana]. Now you tell me, is a wizard or fighter more likely to secure that position?[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Ah, the law. A domain populated by lawyers... which wizards resemble more than fighters.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]And if you can manipulate the lord, you gain the knight as well, no?[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]A wizard could revolutionize the world, or, if high enough level, simply blast it to bits. If you would like a demonstration, I could provide one.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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