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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9064050" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>The "mythic warrior" is the larger than life Fighter at high tiers. It includes the superhuman exploits of divine warriors like Hercules and of mystic warriors like Norse Berserkar and Valkyrjar and East Asian wuxia warrior, along with superheroes from novels, comics, tv series, and films.</p><p></p><p>At the high tiers, 5e Fighter characters must overcome superhuman exploration challenges, including the need for planar travel, teleportation, flight, and overcome superhuman social challenges, including Charm and Fear and competitive social influences. These heightened capabilities either resemble magic or plainly are magic. Note, most "magic", such as the Dragonborn breath weapon, is without "spell casting". At the same time, the Fighter needs to do things to a superhuman degree that is magic. Thus the narratives, themes and tropes, about the "mythic warriors" help make contextual sense of the high tier mechanics. While the noncombat enhancement is a necessity at high tiers, it is an appealing luxury at low tiers, where many players appreciate the Fighter having more things to do beyond combat.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The goal of this thread is to create a poll, where you choose which narrative explanations for the magic that you like. Maybe because the Weave permeates all existence the Fighter can attune it to innately engage the impossible. Maybe the soul of the Fighter is the source of mystical combat, whether the mind of the Berserkar or the ki of the wuxia warrior. Maybe the warrior is divine manifesting an archetype of the ideal warrior. And so on. Keep in mind, these narratives are for the Fighter base class itself. Not for any of the subclasses.</p><p></p><p>Explain what you want the Fighter to do at high levels. After the thread seems to cover enough thoughtful suggestions, I will later add a poll to this thread, so you can vote on which narratives are favorites. I will also modify the title, when the poll comes up, to let you know the poll is happening.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Somehow, the Fighter can do epic things. How do you see it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9064050, member: 58172"] The "mythic warrior" is the larger than life Fighter at high tiers. It includes the superhuman exploits of divine warriors like Hercules and of mystic warriors like Norse Berserkar and Valkyrjar and East Asian wuxia warrior, along with superheroes from novels, comics, tv series, and films. At the high tiers, 5e Fighter characters must overcome superhuman exploration challenges, including the need for planar travel, teleportation, flight, and overcome superhuman social challenges, including Charm and Fear and competitive social influences. These heightened capabilities either resemble magic or plainly are magic. Note, most "magic", such as the Dragonborn breath weapon, is without "spell casting". At the same time, the Fighter needs to do things to a superhuman degree that is magic. Thus the narratives, themes and tropes, about the "mythic warriors" help make contextual sense of the high tier mechanics. While the noncombat enhancement is a necessity at high tiers, it is an appealing luxury at low tiers, where many players appreciate the Fighter having more things to do beyond combat. The goal of this thread is to create a poll, where you choose which narrative explanations for the magic that you like. Maybe because the Weave permeates all existence the Fighter can attune it to innately engage the impossible. Maybe the soul of the Fighter is the source of mystical combat, whether the mind of the Berserkar or the ki of the wuxia warrior. Maybe the warrior is divine manifesting an archetype of the ideal warrior. And so on. Keep in mind, these narratives are for the Fighter base class itself. Not for any of the subclasses. Explain what you want the Fighter to do at high levels. After the thread seems to cover enough thoughtful suggestions, I will later add a poll to this thread, so you can vote on which narratives are favorites. I will also modify the title, when the poll comes up, to let you know the poll is happening. Somehow, the Fighter can do epic things. How do you see it? [/QUOTE]
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