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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 4022808" data-attributes="member: 198">And, of course, acting as a hero has a plethora of different definitions. Achilles, to some, is a hero. So is Hercules. So is Beowulf. So are St. George, Milton's Lucifer, Arjuna, Joan of Arc, Mad Max, Gandhi, Drizzt, Batman, et al. Depending on whose opinion you're seeking and which perspective you're using, there's a lot of variety to the concept. Actually, as far as I know, the game as originally construed was about taking one of your wargaming units and turning it into a character and giving it a voice and killing things and taking their stuff. And if you take D&D to the end, it's always a bunch of people sitting around a table rolling dice and talking about the imaginary things their imaginary friends did. Once you hold that element firmly in mind, it's a little difficult to take seriously the argument that whether someone's imaginary friend died or not is a bona-fide route to heroism or even anything close to it.</blockquote>