D&D 5E Being strong and skilled is a magic of its own or, how I learned to stop worrying and love anime fightin' magic

A better question is how would you be able to tell a 10th level fighter from say a 15th level fighter from a 20th level fighter?
You count the number of attacks he gets. Let's see... Hawkeye has been documented at 29 arrows a minute. Divide by 10. 2.9 arrows every 6 seconds. Round to nearest. Three! Three attacks a round. 11th to 19th level. I'm pretty sure I've seen him resist some hefty mind control, so 17th seems likely. :)
 

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What all of this means to me is that the fighter playtest (which will undoubtedly come very soon and equally undoubtedly has already been written) will be very interesting to watch.
 

There's a difference between myth and stories and game mechanics. Those examples are inspiration and not supposed to be taken literally as PCs. Even Bard killed a dragon with one non-magical arrow.
Bard's arrow wasn't non-magical. It was forged by the dwarves who were better at forging than even the Noldor, and they forged Gurthang and other powerful magic items. Bard's arrow was forged by the King Under the Mountain and passed down through the generations. A normal arrow wouldn't have made it through even Smaug's weak spot.
 

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.
I think this would blow up a wall of ice pretty easily.
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And this would slow the devil down.

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I just think that codifying feats from anime or the Bible is not the way to go.
Not sure why? It already does for instance Clerics classic miracles were pulled directly from biblical sources and Feat is after all something D&D adopted strong likely from Celtic Myth. Samson (conflict between matrimonial oath and empowering oath), Lancelot (conflicting oaths to king and queen) and CuChulainn ( healing touch and disempowered when he broke his totemic oath because of hospitality oath), are the characters who inspired the whole oath bound hero archetype ie Paladin. Sources are rich with inspiration for reasons.
 

You count the number of attacks he gets. Let's see... Hawkeye has been documented at 29 arrows a minute. Divide by 10. 2.9 arrows every 6 seconds. Round to nearest. Three! Three attacks a round. 11th to 19th level. I'm pretty sure I've seen him resist some hefty mind control, so 17th seems likely. :)
MCU Hawkeye very specifically didn't resist Loki's mind-controlling scepter.
 

MCU Hawkeye very specifically didn't resist Loki's mind-controlling scepter.
MCU changed a bunch of stuff. Captain America can hold cars that are trying to drive away. He was never that strong in the comics. Comics Hawkeye is better than MCU Hawkeye I think.
 



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