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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1924253" data-attributes="member: 198">Only if your definition of a hero is fairly narrow. To use an example from fiction, most people would see Indiana Jones as a heroic character. Does the scene from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" where Indy faces a guy swinging a big sword and proceeds to shoot him make Indy stop being a hero? Not for me. Maybe it does for you.I think the primary problem is that any of those definitions are totally arbitrary. If a wizard casts a spell on a barbarian while the latter is fifty feet away, is he fighting fair? If he fights the barbarian hand-to-hand, with his feeble brawn and lack of weapon skill against the barbarian's muscles and greatsword, is the barbarian fighting fair? If a guy with a longsword fights someone with a dagger, is the former fighting fair? In any situation, someone is going to be superior to the other, so there is some inherent unfairness. Short of stripping everyone down to their briefs, piling rocks on the stronger and quicker guys to handicap them, slightly poisoning the combatants with higher hit points to reduce them to the same level as those with less, and so on, there is no way any encounter will have  everyone on an even keel.My solution - I tell my players to run their PCs as smart and deadly as possible and use varied tactics and intelligent thinking to challenge the heck out of them with supposedly weaker opponents, and we have a blast doing it.</blockquote>

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