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<blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3390143" data-attributes="member: 22882"><p>The word you're looking for is "cinematic;" in a gaming context "heroic" is more often used to refer to code of conduct, realism level or even size of minitatures.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, D&D doesn't go out of its way to encourage cinematic combats and does in some ways discourage them. They're mostly good for rare, unusual circumstances, especially since they don't work on a lot of monsters. In those circumstances, though, they can really shine, especially with the appropriate feats.</p><p></p><p>If you want to push cinematic combat and your players aren't the type who just do it for the heck of it (most certainly aren't, IMX), you might want to look into a game that gives it more mechanical support. Iron Heroes (and to a lesser extent the D&D-compatible Book of Iron Might) does this if you want to stick to a d20-based game. Exalted, based on a crunchier version of the Storyteller system, is probably the most famously cinematic RPG and takes it a step further than Iron Heroes. At the farthest end of the scale lies Wushu, were cinematic description basically IS the only gameplay mechanic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoogleEmpMog, post: 3390143, member: 22882"] The word you're looking for is "cinematic;" in a gaming context "heroic" is more often used to refer to code of conduct, realism level or even size of minitatures. Anyway, D&D doesn't go out of its way to encourage cinematic combats and does in some ways discourage them. They're mostly good for rare, unusual circumstances, especially since they don't work on a lot of monsters. In those circumstances, though, they can really shine, especially with the appropriate feats. If you want to push cinematic combat and your players aren't the type who just do it for the heck of it (most certainly aren't, IMX), you might want to look into a game that gives it more mechanical support. Iron Heroes (and to a lesser extent the D&D-compatible Book of Iron Might) does this if you want to stick to a d20-based game. Exalted, based on a crunchier version of the Storyteller system, is probably the most famously cinematic RPG and takes it a step further than Iron Heroes. At the farthest end of the scale lies Wushu, were cinematic description basically IS the only gameplay mechanic. [/QUOTE]
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