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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8786105" data-attributes="member: 7015698">Empowered DM? What kind of new buzzword is that? Feels like a fancy term for railroading DM <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />You know, this talk about running away brought to mind the Battlemaster's ability to judge if someone is stronger or weaker than them at certain thing. The 'Know your Enemy' feature, which goes like this:I think that should be a base Fighter ability. They can just LOOK at a guy and say 'Yeah I can take him' or 'Oh snap we better not mess with that dude!'. An the number of things you can ask the DM should be equal to your Prof. bonus so you get better at it with time.There’s a fantastic scene in the first season of Thunderbolt Fantasy where the hero, who is new to the country in the show and thus don’t know anyone’s reputation, goes to try and peacefully settle a dispute with a man known as the Screaming Phoenix Killer. He joins him for a drink at a table (the establishment cleared due to the Screaming Phoenix Killer’s reputation as a merciless swordsman) and they have a sort of amicable talk about their philosophy. Near the end, Screaming Phoenix Killer accuses the hero of being hypocritical about wanting peace and not being willing to fight: he’s been on the defensive since the start. Killer reveals he’s been thinking about cutting him down since the moment the hero sat down, but despite his nonchalant look, he could tell the hero’s defense was ironclad. We then see a montage from Killer’s mind where he imagines a bunch of ways to quickly strike and each time the hero parries the assault with ease."<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otGqdOFDNzE" target="_blank"> “Battle starts when swords are drawn”, only a fool thinks this way.</a> "I want THAT as a core feature of the Fighter!That makes sense, it's the tough guy distracting the bad guy so his friend can slip away.</blockquote>

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