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<blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4625046" data-attributes="member: 49613">Good points.Perhaps such a world, if it conformed to the typical quasi-medieval D&amp;D milieu, would be sort of like what the Homeric world might have evolved into if certain things had been otherwise (impossible, but for the fact that it's fantasy). I don't mean that you'd have thureophoroi and peltasts and symposia... I mean that the &quot;heroes&quot; would mostly be of noble birth or perhaps special, even divine, heritage. A guard captain who was a non-minion, for example would be a minor noble and a hero of some repute. Perhaps some demi-human groups such as elves and dwarves would have more heroes... thus their general pretensions to nobility (and helping make up for their small populations). A human commoner of heroic proportion would be a rarity, and might suggest abnormal parentage.Oh, and horses would be minions, too. I have no clue who thought it was a good idea that your average war horse can be shot in the face with a 120mm anti-tank gun and shrug it off. Every horse must be some kind of UltraHorse... or maybe they just look like horses on the outside and underneath they're like the Terminator. Or something. But in my world they'd actually be killable with high-velocity shaped charge munitions. Or like arrows, even.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Korgoth, post: 4625046, member: 49613"] Good points. Perhaps such a world, if it conformed to the typical quasi-medieval D&D milieu, would be sort of like what the Homeric world might have evolved into if certain things had been otherwise (impossible, but for the fact that it's fantasy). I don't mean that you'd have thureophoroi and peltasts and symposia... I mean that the "heroes" would mostly be of noble birth or perhaps special, even divine, heritage. A guard captain who was a non-minion, for example would be a minor noble and a hero of some repute. Perhaps some demi-human groups such as elves and dwarves would have more heroes... thus their general pretensions to nobility (and helping make up for their small populations). A human commoner of heroic proportion would be a rarity, and might suggest abnormal parentage. Oh, and horses would be minions, too. I have no clue who thought it was a good idea that your average war horse can be shot in the face with a 120mm anti-tank gun and shrug it off. Every horse must be some kind of UltraHorse... or maybe they just look like horses on the outside and underneath they're like the Terminator. Or something. But in my world they'd actually be killable with high-velocity shaped charge munitions. Or like arrows, even. [/QUOTE]

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