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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 8599131" data-attributes="member: 6914290">Ah to be clear then, you were trying to prove that the premise that anything goes in fantasy taken to its logical conclusion yields "absurd" results..The fighter flapping his arms to fly.Fortunately, one of the ways to disprove a reductio is to prove that result is not absurd.I contend that your arm-flapping flying warrior is not absurd, or at least no moreso than the mumbling sign linguist who can fly..or the charming banjo player who can fly..or the dirty hippie who can turn into a bird(!) and fly..or the giant talking elemental lizards who can fly..or the giant talking eyeball with smaller eyeball appendages who can fly..or the skinny folk who live a thousand years just being pretty most of the time..or the short folk who live hundreds of years and build entire cultures underground..or modrons,..or mimics,..or mind flayers..pseudodragons and quasits and gelatinous cubes..etc.. etc...etc...Why it is that some people feel a non-magical warrior must clear some bar of absurdity, when little else in the setting has to is a mystery to me.</blockquote>