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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2886702" data-attributes="member: 11760">I must know more vets than folks here do. I know lots of people who have done extraordinary things, but they aren't strange and unusual as a result of it. But when it comes to D&D, it seems like fewer and fewer people who are a recognizably normal person (even if they might have pointy ears or hairy feet) are picking up swords or studying magic.What you do does not change who you are, IMO. Sure, there are Vietnam vets who come back to America with catlike reflexes and a deadly growl for a voice. There are also others who come back -- having done the same stuff and been through the same things -- and are essentially Joe Average.The question isn't "do you make characters who can do interesting stuff" -- that's sort of assumed -- it's whether or not, independent of that stuff, they're more of an Everyman or more kewl than that. Are they, in other words, Peter Parker or are they Wolverine? One of those two wears underwear with holes in it, the other does not. Both have fought big cosmic baddies and saved the world (and even the universe).</blockquote>