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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 5823745" data-attributes="member: 34865">Please note: this is kind of a thematic answer to a mechanical question and I apologize for that in advance but here we go...A fighter is a guy who...look, you might hate level titles but look at the 1st level fighter title in AD&D: veteran.  Here's a cat who fought his way for season after season in the peasant levies, seeing his buddies get mowed down like wheat, trampled into red mush under the hooves of the high-and-mighty on their pretty war-horses and plate mail, maybe making it to sundown and finding a barber who'd sew his ear back on or wrap a couple of thin boards and string around the mess of cracked twigs that were his left hand until an orc's hobnail boot ground into it on the battlefield and at the end of it all came out alive.  Not just alive but unlike the other cloth-eared coconut-heads who're going to find themselves cold clay in a season or three, he's able to apply what he knows and get better at it.He's a badass by dint of wanting to be.  He's not some screaming madman who fights like a aurumvorax because he grew up on a glacier and was savagely beaten awake every morning and had to gouge out his brothers eyes if he wanted to eat a strip of raw meat before he slept on a cold rock for three hours that night.  He's not some prissy mirror-shined plate-mail wearing fop who spent his formative years putting perfume in his saddle and learning the harpsichord along with heavy lance.  He's not some addlepated zealot who hears "the voice of God" telling him to order some dirt-poor villagers to cough up ten of the gold pieces they don't have to "the glory of Hieroneus" or whoever.  He's not some half-thief survivalist nut who talks in circles but can't be bothered to warn anyone about an ambush or poison plant until it's almost too late, or tell anyone just how to stab a giant to hurt it worse...No.He is a fighter.  And by all that's holy, he'll win the day because he wants to.</blockquote>

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