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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8809324" data-attributes="member: 7635">You are also comparing a book to a game and trying to derive stats so as to compare them. As anyone who has ever tried to stat up a preexisting character using D&D knows, that's a fools errand. Conan might have been the inspiration for the barbarian class, but using the class to build Conan will never work because Conan has the abilities of a literary protagonist like "plot armor". Yet when people use Conan as the archetypical barbarian, only the most NdGT pedants would stand up and say "well actually..."I think controlling for their different roles as literary characters and RPG race, Tolkien elves share enough in common with D&D elves to be viewed as having similar roles. I've seen TORs take on elves and they are pretty similar.</blockquote>