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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6379024" data-attributes="member: 42582">If you compare a wizard PC to literary wizards and note that the wizard PC is more powerful; and then compare a fighter PC to literary warriors and note that the fighter PC is less powerful; I'm not sure why the comparison was futile.As for giving RPG players the resources to dictate, within limits, what happens to their PCs: the technoloy exists. 5e even deploys it - eg via the fighter's action surge ability. It's just that a mechanically capable fighter, especially at higher levels, needs even more ways to break out of the ordinary action economy and action resolution mechanics.In what sense is D&D closely tied to these literary heroes and tropes when (i) it is chock-full of heroes who use magic, and (ii) that magic is easy, free and has little or no connectin to dark forces?</blockquote>