DracoSuave
First Post
Look.
The martial power source allows for the following things, explicitly:
You could grow to twice your size permanently.
You could die, and reappear right where you fell, out of thin air, ready to do battle immediately.
You could die, go to whatever hell you were destined to go to, and simply get up and walk out and be back within a day with nothing but an interesting story of your journey.
You can hit someone, and cause them to fly 20 feet away... even put a bit of english on it.
You can inspire people to shrug off injury, cleanse themselves of poison, extinguish immolation, dispel magical compulsions, cease turning to stone, and yes, even to fight successfully against the onset of death itself.
These are examples of what -martial- characters can do, and by only tapping the martial power source. And somehow, it is plausible for a dead man to simply walk away from hell itself unimpeded, but grappling a swarm isn't!?!
I could see myself saying 'No, you cannot use a grab action on a swarm' because that's a mundane act. But the second I see the keyword 'Martial' there, we've gone outside the realm of the mundane and the normal rules of physics, science, human limitation, all of it ceases to apply. The presence of a power source makes it the stuff of legends and heroes, and in power fantasy, they don't play by our mortal rules.
The martial power source allows for the following things, explicitly:
You could grow to twice your size permanently.
You could die, and reappear right where you fell, out of thin air, ready to do battle immediately.
You could die, go to whatever hell you were destined to go to, and simply get up and walk out and be back within a day with nothing but an interesting story of your journey.
You can hit someone, and cause them to fly 20 feet away... even put a bit of english on it.
You can inspire people to shrug off injury, cleanse themselves of poison, extinguish immolation, dispel magical compulsions, cease turning to stone, and yes, even to fight successfully against the onset of death itself.
These are examples of what -martial- characters can do, and by only tapping the martial power source. And somehow, it is plausible for a dead man to simply walk away from hell itself unimpeded, but grappling a swarm isn't!?!
I could see myself saying 'No, you cannot use a grab action on a swarm' because that's a mundane act. But the second I see the keyword 'Martial' there, we've gone outside the realm of the mundane and the normal rules of physics, science, human limitation, all of it ceases to apply. The presence of a power source makes it the stuff of legends and heroes, and in power fantasy, they don't play by our mortal rules.