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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FadedC" data-source="post: 4159281" data-attributes="member: 55463">Hmm.....I can buy your other examples but I have a hard time with the dwarf one. First off it would be extremely difficult for the dwarves to even prove that there was a correlation between the time it takes to recover a bit of energy in combat and heroic potential. As a student of science myself I know that even with modern techniques and advanced statistical modeling that would be extremely hard to figure out, it's even harder to imagine pre-scientific method dwarves figuring this out. Given the tendency for "heroic" dwarves to die and "non heroic" dwarves to still do great things, you'd probably need a sample size of somewhere around 1,000 dwarves each one tracked from life to death with careful recording of their time spent to take a second wind (assuming anyone could even agree about what tihis means) to have any clue, and even then people wouldn't completely agree on it.And even if they did somehow all come to agreement about this theory enough to base their entire culture around it (which if you know anything about scientific discussions you know is incredibly unlikely) it would still be almost impossible to determine in the heat of combat exactly what kind of an action somebody is spending to heal themselves (particularly given that they presumably do not know what actions are in the first place).</blockquote>