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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5782040" data-attributes="member: 42582">No.The world record is close to 30 feet. And that is without wind assistance or being a demigod.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_jump#History" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> tells us that there is an ancient Greek "source that claims there once was a fifty five ancient foot jump done by a man named Phayllos".This suggest to me that maximum non-magical jump should be 25 or 30 feet per tier.All D&D PCs tend in fact to be fairly slow compared to real world sprint records, or even marathon records. Running 40 miles in 2 hours, for instance, requires running 1760 feet per minute, or 176 feet - or slightly over 35 squares - in a 6 second round.The real question is - where do augments to that weapon damage come from? A martial PC should, in my view, be able to draw upon deep reserves of spirit, passion and "oomph" when striking with a weapon.This depends on what "healing" means. If healing is, as per 4e, recovery of heroic reserves and morale, then there is no reason why a martial PC can't do this.I don't quite see how this helps with balance, but that is probably a secondary point.In 4e, maximum lift is 20lb times STR. The world record for a clean and jerk lift is 580 lb, which correlates to a STR of 29. And that person was not a demigod (he was Hossein Rezazadeh of Iran).I'm not sure what sorts of powers and bonuses you have in mind here. The ranger power Skilled Companion (Utility 6), for example, grants allies who can see and hear the ranger a skill check bonus until the end of the encounter. Presumably, the ranger is talking to his/her friends (hence the see/hear requirement). The standard mechanical device for representing "luck" in an RPG is to give the player some sort of metagame power. This is what many of the 4e martial powers do.Anyway, I think that your suggested limitations for martial power don't really do justice to the capacities of actual human beings in our own world, let alone actual or incipient demigods in a fantasy world. Tolkien's Numenorians, for example, had lifespans of 100s of years (as did Aragorn) without being magical.</blockquote>

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