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<blockquote data-quote="Mort" data-source="post: 5500789" data-attributes="member: 762">Isn't this a bit needlessly semantic? What if you're a turnip farmer, start adventuring as an F1 (you got your training through a turnip farming montage, maybe the plucking motion is perfect for gutting people) but fully intend to go back to turnip farming.&nbsp;&nbsp; When you retire (as a fighter 20+ no less) you go back to turnip farming (with a profession 23+ farming (specialty: turnips) no less!), by choice because who's going to stop you.Yes, you're the biggest baddest turnip farmer who ever lived and woe to the goblin or coyote that steps foot on your farm - but to you the fighter 1-20 was a means for you to get back to turnip farming (the big bad prevented you in some way).So ok, not &quot;just a turnip farmer&quot; but how much into semantics do we want to get?On the other side though: I don't think anyone is really claiming that an F1 is in anyway superhuman; they are claiming the F1 (and I think specifically the PC F1) is supperior from a narrative perspective - from the potential inherrant for greatness, which really is what PCs do aspire for. Then again there have been so many posts in this thread that maybe I simply missed that tangent.But to yank it back to at least near the OP intent. In literature the fighter and the wizard if they are both protaganists can be equal if the writer paints them as equals from a narrative point of view. In an RPG this falls to the DM, the trick, and the role the system might play, is to make sure it doesn't look forced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mort, post: 5500789, member: 762"] Isn't this a bit needlessly semantic? What if you're a turnip farmer, start adventuring as an F1 (you got your training through a turnip farming montage, maybe the plucking motion is perfect for gutting people) but fully intend to go back to turnip farming. When you retire (as a fighter 20+ no less) you go back to turnip farming (with a profession 23+ farming (specialty: turnips) no less!), by choice because who's going to stop you. Yes, you're the biggest baddest turnip farmer who ever lived and woe to the goblin or coyote that steps foot on your farm - but to you the fighter 1-20 was a means for you to get back to turnip farming (the big bad prevented you in some way). So ok, not "just a turnip farmer" but how much into semantics do we want to get? On the other side though: I don't think anyone is really claiming that an F1 is in anyway superhuman; they are claiming the F1 (and I think specifically the PC F1) is supperior from a narrative perspective - from the potential inherrant for greatness, which really is what PCs [b]do[/b] aspire for. Then again there have been so many posts in this thread that maybe I simply missed that tangent. But to yank it back to at least near the OP intent. In literature the fighter and the wizard if they are both protaganists can be equal if the writer paints them as equals from a narrative point of view. In an RPG this falls to the DM, the trick, and the role the system might play, is to make sure it doesn't look forced. [/QUOTE]

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