How does Boromir keep fighting?

[Horacio]

Buffy RPG rules are wondeful for dramatic combats, if you don't mind a bit lets of feats, combos, squares and so on

I love Buffy RPG almost as much as I love D&D...

 

[uberhiker]

Boromir

Simply, he was a butcher. A seasoned, trained warrior fighting new recruits. It was the massacre it should have been.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Now THAT was a powerful casting of "Raise Dead"

 

[Qlippoth]

Now THAT was a powerful casting of "Raise Dead"

You're telling me! I'd gone through 3/4ths of the posts before noticing the year-stamp.

(after a few beers, mind you)

 

[Ibram]

I think at this point we are talking about a True Resurection....

Thankfully I caught on when someone asked if Eowyn was going to be in the other movies... saved me having to read through a thread that I probably read 4 years ago.

 

[Tom Cashel]

He's a Tough Hero, with the talent to Remain Conscious.

In a fantasy setting.

 

[Enkhidu]

I'm more than a little surprised no one said that Jackson was using Ken Hood's Grim and Gritty ruleset.

 

[CCamfield]

I'm going to go with what Ridley's Cohort said, more or less... D&D is not the One True Ruleset of realism or even of emulating fantasy. But then again, pretty much any system that has hit points and no penalties for injuries before unconsciousness/death has the same trouble here. (I'm playing in a Silver Age Sentinels campaign at the moment, and it would have the same problem, I think.)

I don't really know the details of Mutants & Masterminds combat system, but I think it might be appropriate. I understand that it involves making Fortitude saves when hit, and if you fail, your character drops to the next state of injury. But if you make the save, the hit has no effect. In such a system Boromir might be on the last level of injury before death, with lots of penalties, but at that point he miraculously keeps making his saves for a long time.

 

[Aesmael]

I'm more than a little surprised no one said that Jackson was using Ken Hood's Grim and Gritty ruleset.

Did that even exist at the time this discussion happened?

 

[CCamfield]

Boromir was supposedly the best warrior of the greatest Human Kingdom in Middle Earth. He fought against the armies of Mordor nearly constantly, and IMO had more experience than almost any other man in the world. Aragorn is close, perhaps equal to Boromir in fighting power, but he's certainly not better. The thing that makes Aragorn a stronger person than Boromir is his greater willpower and leadership capabilities. But as far as sheer fighting power goes, Boromir is definitely the best.

By the by...

I honestly do not know how one is supposed to conclude either way, since they didn't fight to the death. But I just wanted to point out that Boromir may have been the greatest known warror of Gondor but that does exclude the Rangers. Aragorn served under another name in Gondor for a while, but I think we can presume that he didn't try to stand out.