or even a level 5 one...
Shrug, Hercules and Cuchulainn, and Perseus and many others in the 2e Players handbook list of example fighters were considered Demigods (Thor both parents were gods). Hercules was I believe elevated to full god at the finale of his story.
Hawkeye would definitely be a good fight against those dudes imo. Marvel Comics Hercules doesn't count. That guy can punch a planet in half.
The 20th lvl fighter kills things a lot quicker and gets killed a lot less. Probably has a much nicer suit of armor, car, house, etc. Is a 20th level fighter supposed to be taller or have super Saiyan hair or something?
He is bad enough in myth, wrestling with death to save a recently dead person is close to a martial resurrection trick.
Hawkeyes equipment translates damn near to spells its super tech
The high levels nobody/few get to are called aspirational at least they are that way for casters... and the one more attack is meh.
The dragon was being bombarded by a city hit points wearing thin and we do not know the heirloom was non-magic. So I reserve on that one. Could see it as Bilbo doing a long distance inspiration pass to help him crit as well
Lugh Lamfada of the Tuatha de Danaan (Celtic God) used a sling and stone either just after joining them or when he became their leader and put out the eye of a giant he was the ultimate multi-classer in 4e you build him as a bard
Not all the classes had as good of examples as the Fighter, maybe because hero -> fighter was near synonymous for a long time?
And Alexander the Great claimed to be a demigod. There is an actual Bard named Taliesen from Celtic legend that works far better as inspiration his stories dripped with magic... also Merlin comes in as Bard/Druid. Legend does not differentiate their abilities much though.
Aragorn did a martial army of undead with ahem a once in the story limit... not sure how to make that kind of thing work in game but I have been using an alternate reward called karma points...maybe making it take karma points a huge huge number can work (like an expensive ritual ingredient but its not money)
(elite ones of course)There is going to be limits but looking at what casters do the limits are potentially less than many people think
Where you are int the order is not a representative of a a PC's power. You can be 3rd best but WAAAAAAAY down in power.
I'd be all for Fighters getting some abilities that triggered off hit dice. They can then become a "long rest" class and work for 5 minutes too. I just think that codifying feats from anime or the Bible is not the way to go.
Why wouldn't Hawkeye be able to solo an ice devil? The fight could last a whole issue, but I don't see why he wouldn't be able to do it. Like I said, I'm all for giving fighters more options. That's where the game is headed anyways. Just keep it grounded. This game is not meant to encompass comics and anime. Inspiration? Sure! But this isn't a superhero or anime game at it's core.
That is a possibility (or hit points so that their attributes and hit die size become the resource) I was thinking taking risk could be a resource (like you get an extra attack this round but trigger an opportunity attack for your enemy as a cost)
In short. The Ice Devil's Wall of Ice would allow the devil to catch him and Hawkeye lacks the defense capabilities to survive the high damage bire/claw/tail or the slow of the spear/tail. In most comics and the movies, Hawkeye survives because nothing beyond human/robots mooks ever target him or he dealing with region level threats as him.
I'd expect you to be able to tell them apart by the things they can do. A level 20 fighter is just the family-size version of a lvl 11 fighter.. fighter..now with 33% more attacks.
