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<blockquote data-quote="RainOnTheSun" data-source="post: 8542389" data-attributes="member: 7031409">You know, it's funny. When I think of explicitly &quot;mundane&quot; heroes dealing with supernatural worlds - your Conans, your Batmen, your Odysseuseseseses, any of the early twentieth century pulp heroes - they're almost all polymaths. They might have a preferred idiom, but they're the master of whatever skill happens to be relevant. When they aren't an expert at something, it's either because the skill is inherently tainted or unworthy, or to allow another expert to be a plot device for the story at hand.&nbsp; You don't see &quot;Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit,&quot; you see &quot;Angel Summoner and Nuclear Physicist Brain Surgeon Olympic Decathlete Chessmaster Circus Acrobat Karate Champion, possibly also a Billionaire&quot;I guess what I'm saying is that the real mundane hero in D&amp;D should be the Rogue, not the Fighter. If you only do one thing and want to hang out with the wizard, your one thing had better be amazing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RainOnTheSun, post: 8542389, member: 7031409"] You know, it's funny. When I think of explicitly "mundane" heroes dealing with supernatural worlds - your Conans, your Batmen, your Odysseuseseseses, any of the early twentieth century pulp heroes - they're almost all polymaths. They might have a preferred idiom, but they're the master of whatever skill happens to be relevant. When they [I]aren't [/I]an expert at something, it's either because the skill is inherently tainted or unworthy, or to allow another expert to be a plot device for the story at hand. You don't see "Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit," you see "Angel Summoner and Nuclear Physicist Brain Surgeon Olympic Decathlete Chessmaster Circus Acrobat Karate Champion, possibly also a Billionaire" I guess what I'm saying is that the real mundane hero in D&D should be the Rogue, not the Fighter. If you only do one thing and want to hang out with the wizard, your one thing had better be [I]amazing.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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