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<blockquote data-quote="Tovec" data-source="post: 5757542" data-attributes="member: 95493"><p>Once again, this was probably covered but it irked me SOO much I had to comment.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Are you comparing the son of Zeus, a demigod, to regular human fighters?</p><p></p><p>Put another way, it is okay for Hercules to do certain things because he was more than human. Indeed he was born a god, rich in super-human powers. He didn't get those powers from being a fighter, instead his being a fighter represented his training with weapons.</p><p></p><p>So, yes it does seem over the top for a class, which <em>used </em>to represent the simple talent of swinging a sword and wielding a shield effectively, to have a power source which allows them to yell at an ally and change their status from <strong>unconscious </strong>to <strong>fine and able to fight some more</strong>. The part that makes it silly, to many who think the way I do, is that they are able to do this without explicit access to magic, using a power souce which is not explicitly magical, and when the power source by convenient and conventional understanding SHOULD mean non-magical. Long and rant-ish I know.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I already saw this was partially addressed.</p><p></p><p>But come on...</p><p>Mocking the master/creator, who is dead (based on the example), or plausibly not within earshot?</p><p>Mocking Vecna/Juiblex, who is a god, who is not paying attention to something so lowly AND who can take it?</p><p>Mocking the shadow magic, which is a force and incapable of emotion? Why not mock fire to make it not burn you?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tovec, post: 5757542, member: 95493"] Once again, this was probably covered but it irked me SOO much I had to comment. Are you comparing the son of Zeus, a demigod, to regular human fighters? Put another way, it is okay for Hercules to do certain things because he was more than human. Indeed he was born a god, rich in super-human powers. He didn't get those powers from being a fighter, instead his being a fighter represented his training with weapons. So, yes it does seem over the top for a class, which [I]used [/I]to represent the simple talent of swinging a sword and wielding a shield effectively, to have a power source which allows them to yell at an ally and change their status from [B]unconscious [/B]to [B]fine and able to fight some more[/B]. The part that makes it silly, to many who think the way I do, is that they are able to do this without explicit access to magic, using a power souce which is not explicitly magical, and when the power source by convenient and conventional understanding SHOULD mean non-magical. Long and rant-ish I know. I already saw this was partially addressed. But come on... Mocking the master/creator, who is dead (based on the example), or plausibly not within earshot? Mocking Vecna/Juiblex, who is a god, who is not paying attention to something so lowly AND who can take it? Mocking the shadow magic, which is a force and incapable of emotion? Why not mock fire to make it not burn you? [/QUOTE]
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