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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Selkirk" data-source="post: 6495315" data-attributes="member: 6775377">let's use kobolds for the barbarians example (or some other low level cr creature that bounded accuracy tells us should be able to threaten a 10th level barbarian...unless of course low level creatures couldn't threaten him-where for art thou bounded accuracy? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). the farmers simply an example of the absurdities bounded accuracy creates. of course adventurer's risk their lives for money...but this can't be the only reason. the farmers not wanting to risk their own lives is one reason but can't be the only one. the real reason the pc's are hired is because they are the only ones capable of killing an ogre. the farmers simply cannot kill it regardless of their courage. adventurers aren't just greedier than commoners they are more skilled (in ways the villagers cannot be). we even see this sort of thing in real life <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />. a delta force soldier can fight and kill things i simply cannot. years of specialized training have given them skills and abilities i can't have just by picking up a a gun-i simply cannot do the things they are capable of. no matter how much i want to play nba basketball i would never beat an nba player in a game of one on one (never...not once). but with bounded accuracy we see kobolds capable of challenging highly skilled soldiers or bakers able to identify magic items that leave a sage stumped. there simply isn't enough separation between adventurers and the people hiring them to do these jobs. so we are left with the rather pisspoor rationale that the adventurers are the only ones crazy enough to do these jobs...not the actual reasonable rationale-the adventurers are the only ones capable of doing these jobs. heroism in 5e is hiring a mob of pikemen or better yet 10 archers.</blockquote>

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