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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2215573" data-attributes="member: 7240">This is consistent with ancient history (remember Thermopylae?), literature and myth. It's a basically self-evident truth that heroes have this capacity. Why would any explanation be needed? Nobody needs to explain why Roland can blow his horn hard enough for it to burst asunder.I think this runs completely counter to the heroic archetypes on which D&D fighters are based. Galahad, Arthur, etc. -- these guys didn't know anything special -- they just were special.There is no need for an "explanation;" the nigh-invincible heroic warrior is as much a part of D&D worlds as all the other things unlike our own that have nothing to do with knowledge (ie. sorcerors, druids, dragons, etc.). The specialness of powerful warriors is just a self-evident aspect of the very nature of the D&D universe whose rules, while different from those of ours, are self-consistent; and it is the self-consistency that matters.</blockquote>