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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 4042103" data-attributes="member: 198">Personally, I've always thought D&D does mythic better than fantasy, especially when it comes to mechanics. For me, Cuchulainn is a much better analogue to D&D characters, especially once they are in double-figure levels, than Conan. As for mythic in feel, that's something which I think it can easily do, if the DM and players are interested in such an approach. I should also note that what is mythic in one culture often varies drastically from mythic in another. I grew up reading the Mahabharata and the Iliad and then went on to a lot of other mythologies, and what's mythic in India is very different from what's mythic in Greece (and depending on whether you're looking at Hesiod or Homer, you're seeing very different conceptions of the mythic), which is very different from the mythic in Germanic or the Egyptian or the Celtic. So if one wants to do a mythic feel, one also needs to decide which kind of mythic feel to pull off.Yes. Your bias is showing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />And again, the answer is "Yes", but it should be only one among many options, IMNSHO. There's nothing wrong or silly with playing epic characters as fantasy heroes, any more than it's silly to pretend to be an elf. Here I disagree, because I don't think it is an "either-or" dichotomy. I find dungeon crawls boring in the extreme, even at low levels, but that doesn't mean I think WotC should design the game to cater only to my tastes. What I think WotC should do is have guidelines and suggestions in the DMG which will help DMs (especially those with little or no experience) to achieve the feel they want. Not just the feel Wyrmshadows wants <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Isn't that what they already do?</blockquote>

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