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<blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9680206" data-attributes="member: 6894926">With regards to &quot;what's considered exceptional...&quot; IMO most editions' DnD characters are, to varying degrees, exceptional. They advance in power quickly, they outperform their contemporaries, and in dnd5e they punch way above their weight class.SHOULD they be exceptional? Tough call. Depends on the game ofc, but I feel like they have to be a little above average at least to give the PCs a fighting chance... above table, the PCs only experience the world maybe 1/week, so they could use the benefit of the doubt. I think even Call of Cthulhu characters are a little exceptional in one way or another, in that they're a little more capable than Average Joe. In a high fantasy game like DnD yeah, they should be. HOW exceptional is up for debate, ofc. In a Sword &amp; Sorcery game, well Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser were certainly best in their class- as was Conan.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Distracted DM, post: 9680206, member: 6894926"] With regards to "what's considered exceptional..." IMO most editions' DnD characters are, to varying degrees, exceptional. They advance in power quickly, they outperform their contemporaries, and in dnd5e they punch way above their weight class. SHOULD they be exceptional? Tough call. Depends on the game ofc, but I feel like they have to be a little above average at least to give the PCs a fighting chance... above table, the PCs only experience the world maybe 1/week, so they could use the benefit of the doubt. I think even Call of Cthulhu characters are a [I]little [/I]exceptional in one way or another, in that they're a little more capable than Average Joe. In a high fantasy game like DnD yeah, they should be. HOW exceptional is up for debate, ofc. In a Sword & Sorcery game, well Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser were certainly best in their class- as was Conan. [/QUOTE]

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