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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5967061" data-attributes="member: 63">Actually, Herc and Cooshy were just regular Joes who were so tough that the local tabloids starting running stories that they had to be half-god. It's really sad how mythology mischaracterizes those guys.Less jokey, all that matters to me is that they were guys who kicked butt with their bodies, not with spells. That makes them fighters. Mythology doesn't have the same &quot;gain XP to get more powerful&quot; progression that D&amp;D does, so we usually don't let players say, &quot;My character is half-god, so he's going to start at 15th level.&quot;Moving aside from mythology, what about wuxia characters? Kung fu bad-asses who run across treetops and throw knives that can chop off people's heads.Or Jimi Hendrix, who stands next to a mountain and chops it down with the edge of his hand?In a world where magic suffuses so many different things, why can't a high-level fighter just be a guy who intuitively has figured out how to be stronger, faster, and tougher than normal flesh would allow?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 5967061, member: 63"] Actually, Herc and Cooshy were just regular Joes who were so tough that the local tabloids starting running stories that they had to be half-god. It's really sad how mythology mischaracterizes those guys. Less jokey, all that matters to me is that they were guys who kicked butt with their bodies, not with spells. That makes them fighters. Mythology doesn't have the same "gain XP to get more powerful" progression that D&D does, so we usually don't [i]let[/i] players say, "My character is half-god, so he's going to start at 15th level." Moving aside from mythology, what about wuxia characters? Kung fu bad-asses who run across treetops and throw knives that can chop off people's heads. Or Jimi Hendrix, who stands next to a mountain and chops it down with the edge of his hand? In a world where magic suffuses so many different things, why can't a high-level fighter just be a guy who intuitively has figured out how to be stronger, faster, and tougher than normal flesh would allow? [/QUOTE]

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