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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zeromaru X" data-source="post: 9097397" data-attributes="member: 65487">You never see Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli training. They are already these baddass motherf*** who can take an army of orcs singlehandedly. You can infer that they trained at some point of their lives, but they don't need to train now. This can be applied to almost all characters in Western fiction.On the other hand, you have people like Frodo or Sam, that never in the book get some basic training, yet they can fight because "plot". So, again, the idea that a character needs training to improve can be inferred but not shown.As such, it never becomes a preconceived idea of "this is how heroic combat types characters must be".The other stuff it is shown in these books, but the books usually focus on the drama/action, leaving the slice of life situations as secondary concerns. So, is no wonder that players treat them as non-important stuff to do.That's all IMO, of course. As you say in these halls, YMMV.</blockquote>