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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9385561" data-attributes="member: 6877472">The Lord of the Rings movies have quite a few of these, usually involving Legolas for whatever reason."Hey I'm an Elf, can I walk on the surface of snow without sinking into it so my movement speed is reduced?""Hey, I'm an immortal thousands of years old Elf, can I grind a shield down a stone staircase while accurately firing arrows at enemies like it's a skateboard?""Hey, same super experienced and awesome Elf, can I..."DM: "What?  Take on an oliphant siege unit with a bunch of guys riding in a palanquin on it in like two rounds?  Sure fine whatever."Basically the kinds of ridiculous action stunts we're used to seeing out of Hollywood that are highly improbable, but fun to watch, and few rules systems on the planet are capable of mapping out.Probably the best system for this I've ever played with was Hong Kong Action Theatre, where you can burn "Star Power" (a combination of xp/fame) to do something incredible, but as this is also the metric by which your character advances and bids on future roles, you have to be careful with it- the example one player used was Steven Seagal, who basically walks through Under Siege 2: Dark Territory without ever really being challenged, and, as a consequence, gets killed off in the first half hour of Executive Decision!</blockquote>