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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2810818" data-attributes="member: 198">Really? I've seen many more discussions about problems with modelling the flavor of storybook characters in D&amp;D than ones about modelling the power. In fact, many people on these boards will tell you that the LotR book (since you refer to Aragorn and Galadriel) above is a low-magic setting and most characters from there wouldn't be of too high a level.Personally, I've never thought a comparison (especially one of power level) between a character in a D&amp;D game and one in a novel is particularly productive. The playing fields, so to say, are so completely different that a meaningful comparison becomes difficult. The characters in the books don't have powers because they hit a certain number of levels or because they have certain stats, but simply because the author viewed them a certain way. Gandalf is chased up a tree by wolves in The Hobbit and kills a Balrog single-handed in LotR. Did he level up? No. Tolkien simply viewed and presented the character somewhat differently in two very different books. Bard doesn't shoot Smaug because he beat his AC. He shoots Smaug because Tolkien gives him an Arrow of Climactic Plot-Device <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; So, in my estimation, any correlation between D&amp;D characters and fictional ones will be very arbitrary and purely dependent on the designer's perspective. That being said, powerwise D&amp;D characters can pull off most things that you will find in fiction, esp. if you consider epic levels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 2810818, member: 198"] Really? I've seen many more discussions about problems with modelling the flavor of storybook characters in D&D than ones about modelling the power. In fact, many people on these boards will tell you that the LotR book (since you refer to Aragorn and Galadriel) above is a low-magic setting and most characters from there wouldn't be of too high a level. Personally, I've never thought a comparison (especially one of power level) between a character in a D&D game and one in a novel is particularly productive. The playing fields, so to say, are so completely different that a meaningful comparison becomes difficult. The characters in the books don't have powers because they hit a certain number of levels or because they have certain stats, but simply because the author viewed them a certain way. Gandalf is chased up a tree by wolves in The Hobbit and kills a Balrog single-handed in LotR. Did he level up? No. Tolkien simply viewed and presented the character somewhat differently in two very different books. Bard doesn't shoot Smaug because he beat his AC. He shoots Smaug because Tolkien gives him an Arrow of Climactic Plot-Device ;) So, in my estimation, any correlation between D&D characters and fictional ones will be very arbitrary and purely dependent on the designer's perspective. That being said, powerwise D&D characters can pull off most things that you will find in fiction, esp. if you consider epic levels. [/QUOTE]

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