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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3937934" data-attributes="member: 1003">I prefer to think that you are the one who is missing something.&nbsp; Only JRR can say for sure what he was thinking, but I believe the tale of The Lord of the Rings was that &quot;the everyday man&quot; was capable of great things; of winning the war, and coming home to the Shire.They did special things, but they weren't &quot;special.&quot;&nbsp; Well, maybe Aragorn was &quot;born special&quot;, but not the others.&nbsp; Any number of Hobbits, given the same task and set down the same path, would have had the same (slim) odds of &quot;overcoming incredible odds, and discovering an inner strength even they didn't know they had.&quot;Imagine the blacksmith's apprentice mentioned above. It's five years later now, and he has been to Mordor and back.&nbsp; But at his side is the same hammer he left with; it is his trusty tool, useful both in war and in peace.&nbsp; In the course of his journey he has overcome terrible odds, and discovered an inner strength.&nbsp; His trials have proved (and developed in him) a greatness, but his life could just have easily been a simple one.This simple blacksmith has done heroic things because destiny put him in that place in history, in that moment in time, and the tasks were his to do.&nbsp; But it could have been any other man as well.My point?&nbsp; I think as long as you stick to levels 1-10, 4E will model an &quot;everyman&quot; just fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 3937934, member: 1003"] I prefer to think that [I]you [/I]are the one who is missing something. Only JRR can say for sure what he was thinking, but I believe the tale of The Lord of the Rings was that "the everyday man" [I]was [/I]capable of great things; of winning the war, and coming home to the Shire. They did special things, but they weren't "special." Well, maybe Aragorn was "born special", but not the others. Any number of Hobbits, given the same task and set down the same path, would have had the same (slim) odds of "overcoming incredible odds, and discovering an inner strength even they didn't know they had." Imagine the blacksmith's apprentice mentioned above. It's five years later now, and he has been to Mordor and back. But at his side is the same hammer he left with; it is his trusty tool, useful both in war and in peace. In the course of his journey he has overcome terrible odds, and discovered an inner strength. His trials have proved (and developed in him) a greatness, but his life could just have easily been a simple one. This simple blacksmith has done heroic things because destiny put him in that place in history, in that moment in time, and the tasks were his to do. But it could have been any other man as well. My point? I think as long as you stick to levels 1-10, 4E will model an "everyman" just fine. [/QUOTE]

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