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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kishin" data-source="post: 3307728" data-attributes="member: 40956">People really miss the point of Midnight, or least the epic heroism aspect of it, which is even discussed in the core book. The PCs in Midnight are meant to be larger than life figures, to eventually do amazing things. Furthermore, I'd daresay that fighting a battle you know with 100% certainty will result in the loss of your life as you try to make things better for just a little while, or for a small group of people, is infinitely more heroic than the Campbellian/Lucasian rise out of nothingness to save the world and make everything sunshine and rainbows again fantasy that gluts the genre. The fact that you cannot destroy a -god- does not invalidate any heroic action on your part. You do the best that can, which is ultimately what things boil down to anyway, in a non hyper-idealized stars in your eyes reality.Its the same as Lovecraft. No one can stop the Great Old Ones, but it sure doesn't stop people from trying anyway, and from occasionally gumming up the works a bit.P.S. If you follow the Midnight line, there are definitely hints dropped left and right about the chinks in the armor of Izrador's empire, and I'd gainsay these hints are more than plausible seeds from the writers as to how to do some major damage to the Shadow and his cronies, or even completely upset the balance of power there.</blockquote>