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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5497951" data-attributes="member: 15538">Superhuman means "above human" or "more than human," so by definition, it is something outside the boundaries of the merely human.Humans do NOT make superhuman efforts all the time, based on our working definition. They are human efforts. Extraordinary human efforts, sure, but human nonetheless. Sometimes someone might say superhuman, as a hyperbole.To actually call those efforts superhuman requires a different sense of superhuman; in that case it would simply mean above ordinary human capability. If you allow that a woman defending her children from a grown cougar for four hours is superhuman, sure, I'll allow that Batman is superhuman. But that mother is still fully and only human, and so would Batman be. And she is not Beowulf.He's certainly less human. I wouldn't say he's not human at all, or inhuman, but he is certainly superhuman, and certainly not a normal human. I thought that Kirsten Dunst's idea of a weird The Fly-like sequel with half-spider-baby offspring was spot on.That's just not true. Under OD&D or AD&D he was likely identical in every respect to the local guard captain or a seasoned knight. He would only lack stats if he were defined as a 1 HD monster, but that is purely optional; NPCs can have any stats a PC has, and do. A certain percentage of the normal population are 1st level fighters; most editions of D&D will actually tell you how many.Is it pretty damned close to the truth that Dale Earnhart Sr. never crashes? What you are saying by "close to the truth" actually looks to me like, "not true." Things that are not true might indeed be very close to the truth, but that doesn't make them true, any more than my being similar in many important respects to a dog means that I chew rawhide.</blockquote>

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