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:erm:Sorry Shaman, Mark CMG beat you to that.

No one said that Fighters are the only ones who can have 17 strength. He just said that 17 is more than "Pretty Big", its near world record competitor. Danny I'm going to call you on that 14. I think you are closer to a 12 at most. You may be 250lbs but that does not mean you can get to much...

:erm: Funny, but not really what I was asking for. Both of those are more tactics than individual actions.

Danny if you are using those stats and a level of Fighter for a turnip farmer, he's not just a turnip farmer he is the best damned turnip farmer in the area. If a bull gets ornery and breaks out of his pen, he is the guy that they go get to catch him. If a fight breaks out between 2 guys in the...

What are some common/generic combat actions that you think pretty much everyone should be able to do in a generic fantasy RPG? Everyone doing them well is not important, just being able to attempt them even if its badly is okay. I just want to know what "common" actions people want available to...

The reason only Arthur uses Excalibur in legend is because its his magic sword to wield. Lancelot has his own and so do others. Think of it as the party was rolling for treasure and Arthur won Excalibur and its sheath. But remember every one of the servants had comparable "magical items"...

I have a problem with doing it that way. It makes equipment inherent to the character's power. Strip them of their level granted equipment and they become useless. Its an okay concept for certain archetypes like gadgeters and artificers, but for others things like techniques work better. If the...

I think whats important is parity. Being equal but different. When confronted by a problem the wizard, fighter and rogue should be able to deal with it in their own way with the same regularity of success. A 20ft wall? The wizard levitates up and over, the fighter digs in and climbs up and the...

Want to know something even worse? He dodged a lightning bolt in one story.

Most of those examples you would name would be non-wizard vs wizard stories or wizard/witch/other-spellcaster grants a boon and not "wizard and non-wizard team-up to go questing." And that is why I said major knights. Figures such as Gawain, Lancelot(ugh talk about a french Marty Stu)...

The problem I have here is that in the sniper situation Batman set everything up. There was no outside intervention by others. He was the one who directed placement of things. He set it up so that the sniper only had on viable sniping location. He assigned Robin to stay there and ambush the guy...

Actually I'm pointing out where to situations you brought up were countered. You said that Batman wasn't superhuman because he could be taken out by a sniper or explosives. I brought up one situation each were he prevented himself from being taken out by a sniper or explosives. You are...

It depends entirely on your perspective. Did Eowyn and Merry kill the Witch King because they fulfilled the conditions of the prophecy or was the prophecy saying that Eowyn and Merry would kill the Witch King and that they were not Men. If its the first, then even if two generic men had tried...

Ugh, Danny, please stop. You are using fallacious arguments, primarily a variation of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy, irrelevant conclusions, and begging the question. The point being is that while Batman's race is "normal" human, just like Superman's race is "Kryptonian" and the Flash's is...

Funny, I remember a couple attempts to use both situations. In one attempt a sniper was contracted to kill Bruce Wayne or some other VIP. Batman caught wind of it and set it up so that when the sniper took position to fire either he, Robin or another Bat was there to take him out. In another...

First I'm going to respond to the threads original topic: The "Fighter/Mage-User Same Team Power Disparity at High Skill Levels" is largely a modern western concept born from D&D itself. In Arthurian Legend, Merlin was roughly on par with the various major knights. His only magical powers were...

The Christmas Tree Effect is neither necessarily bad nor necessarily good. It is just a symptom of having a large number of (predominantly worn) magical items. The reason of why the effect exists is what really matters. In OD&D to 2nd AD&D high level characters could have the effect and it...

Talk about completely missing the point. If you need me to explain all of the jokes in CNN's post I will, but I wont be happy to. One of my own: If you are playing an Eberron game and... ...you jump on the party's airship to go to Xendrick, you are not on a railroad. ...your DM asks you...

I disagree. What the DM did here was deny an action not dictate one. If a player wanted to attack an orc and there are no orcs in the combat area would you call not letting the character attack orcs railroading as well?

I think we actually need to go back and look at where the phrase "railroading" came from. From what I know it came from the phrase "on rails" which referred to stories that progressed, with or without player interaction, the same way as themepark rail rides such as the Haunted Mansion and...