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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3793937" data-attributes="member: 18">Name me a SINGLE heroic fantasy novel or film where someone does that? Even in MYTH people die every time when they jump off cliffs! (See: numerous examples in Greek Myth)It's not "modelling mythic heroes". It's a dumb system which doesn't work well and doesn't even mesh with the rest of the game.It's once thing to survive a fall, which does happen all the time in fantasy fiction, it's quite another to walk away from it relatively uninjured.Don't give me bollocks about "heroic fantasy". It's nonsense. In all forms of fantasy fiction, people who fall 200ft on to a hard surface, without hitting a branch, large bird, multiple trees, doing semi-magical acrobatics etc. on the way down DIE or are crippled. The difference between this and the sweep of a dragon's paw is that it's plausible for someone to get hit by a dragon and live - maybe the claws didn't go deep, or he was hit mostly by the "palm" of the paw, maybe his skill allowed him to roll with the blow, etc.It's not plausible, even in "Tales of Mythic Heroism", to fall 200ft straight down on to a hard surface and take fractional damage and no impairment without magical assistance, and particularly so if you're not some kind of acrobatic ninja-type, but a big guy with a beard in full plate.</blockquote>