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<blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 8391599" data-attributes="member: 82504"><p>That is a good point epic tier is not after you have achieved that status... it is in a sense "Progressing towards that destiny"</p><p></p><p>What could be accomplished via skill challenges and stunts being open ended were also a way the game via the DM and players themselves presented/expressed the expectations of epic tier in 4e. What those could do exactly are not super locked down but rather inspired by that flavor text of knowing you were on the road to being a demigod</p><p></p><p>I think there are clues in the game which show D&D was always more mythic than it sometimes admits too. The casters get to raise the dead and other very over the top outlandish things discordantly in the heroic tier too which reads very much not this mundane verse version they impose on martial types but is more in keeping with your fighter may someday be taken up into the stars and represent Strength itself being able to wrestle an manifest supernatural Herakles was one of the example fighters mentioned in the 2e phb, I wrote a martial practice with that flavor. In D&D the accomplishment is not flagged as paragon or epic even.</p><p></p><p>How well 4e manifests epic is something I think asking [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] is an appropriate call out</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Garthanos, post: 8391599, member: 82504"] That is a good point epic tier is not after you have achieved that status... it is in a sense "Progressing towards that destiny" What could be accomplished via skill challenges and stunts being open ended were also a way the game via the DM and players themselves presented/expressed the expectations of epic tier in 4e. What those could do exactly are not super locked down but rather inspired by that flavor text of knowing you were on the road to being a demigod I think there are clues in the game which show D&D was always more mythic than it sometimes admits too. The casters get to raise the dead and other very over the top outlandish things discordantly in the heroic tier too which reads very much not this mundane verse version they impose on martial types but is more in keeping with your fighter may someday be taken up into the stars and represent Strength itself being able to wrestle an manifest supernatural Herakles was one of the example fighters mentioned in the 2e phb, I wrote a martial practice with that flavor. In D&D the accomplishment is not flagged as paragon or epic even. How well 4e manifests epic is something I think asking [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] is an appropriate call out [/QUOTE]
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