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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6179206" data-attributes="member: 13009">But Indiana Jones is mostly a fighter, and Sherlock Holmes would not be a D&D adventurer.  When the party gathers at the Inn of [Adjective Noun] and meets for the first time by taking up the quest of the week, and they introduce each other, the guy who says "I suck at combat and can't contribute at all to one of the key areas of the adventure." gets left behind.  His player then spends the next 30 minutes making a character that doesn't suck.The game is about big damn heroes going around killing things and taking their stuff, if you want to roleplay something else use a different system than D&D they do that better, don't try and turn D&D into something it is not.The rules should not be balanced around people making Mary Sue characters because you can't balance that.</blockquote>