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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8399856" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Lemme give a REALLY SIMPLE allegorical example. Wolverine of Marvel Comics.Wolverine, Logan, Patch, James Howlett, whatever you wanna call him, is an EXPERT fighter. He's been fighting with knives, swords, bayonets, guns, bare knuckles, bone claws, adamantine claws, and every other weapon you've ever heard of for literal centuries. That's not an exaggeration he's been around for -centuries- and constantly winds up in wars and street brawls and Japanese Sword Duels 'cause the man is written to have no chill.So why, for the love of -god-, does he ALLOW himself to constantly get shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, and mutilated? Why does the guy with a metal skeleton fling himself metal-fists first toward the guy who can manipulate any kind of metal? Why doesn't he -dodge- or -take cover- or just not fastball special his tiny metal booty toward Magneto?Because of his Regeneration, right? Sure.Except it still hurts. It still hurts enough and does enough damage, however temporarily, that he can be -disabled- for a few minutes, captured, contained, and moved around. It still hurts enough and does enough damage that people see him get shot in the head, collapse, and think he's dead.It still hurts enough that he stops what he's doing to throw his head back and let out a manly screaming roar of pain.WHY DOES HE LET THE SHOTS LAND IF IT HURTS?!Because he has Regeneration and the WRITERS and ARTISTS want to show off his power.If there were -any- real world soldier with that kind of superpower in a world where freaking LASER RIFLES and SUPER ARMOR exist there is 0 reason they'd run around in a spandex leotard knife-punching their enemies as their first course of action while making no effort whatsoever to avoid injury.Yeah, you can regenerate. You can still get hurt so badly you can't fight for a while, and also EXPERIENCE PAIN.But the writers ignore all that. Instead he doesn't dodge and just gets shot. Instead he throws his head back in pain and rage. Instead he gets the Adamantium ripped out of his body by Magneto 'cause he's got the tactical acumen of a vanilla wafer.Because otherwise they couldn't show off his Superpower.If you've got Wolverine in a comic you can rest assured he's gonna get stabbed, slashed, shot, punched, magnetically torn apart, nuked, or otherwise seriously injured just so he can walk it off. Are there comics where he doesn't? Oh, absolutely. There's comics where he's just there to talk or has a cameo or whatever. But the vast majority of his appearance in comics involves Snikt and Screaming.'Cause he's the best at what he does, Bub.Bleeding.Apply that understanding to D&D players. 'Cause we're also all Writers and Artists who create characters to be good at things and want to do the things we make our characters good at.</blockquote>

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