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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5969072" data-attributes="member: 54877">That cliche depends upon the same kind of sleight of hand used to justify the wizard/fighter double standard in the first place.&nbsp; First, let's finish the sentence:&nbsp; &quot;If everyone is special, nobody is special.&quot;&nbsp; No one wants to include that last word, because then it might occur to someone that there are two kinds of being special being discussed, and it isn't some kind of fuzzy average, either:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Everyone is special.&nbsp; Everyone is a human being, with human dignity, &quot;endowed by their creator&quot; or some amazing biological/socialogical entity or however you want to talk about it.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">No one is special.&nbsp; They've got their blind spots and problems, along with their bright spots and triumphs.&nbsp; End of the day, &quot;just folks.&quot;</li>
</ul>The thought behind it has only ever been true when you narrow it down to something in particular.&nbsp; 100 meter dash?&nbsp; Yeah, we've got everything from &quot;top of the line special&quot; to &quot;nowhere even near the subject matter.&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp;Bringing this back around, the case for the wizard being special as a caster of arcane magic is not the case for the wizard being somehow special compared to other D&amp;D characters as a whole.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5969072, member: 54877"] That cliche depends upon the same kind of sleight of hand used to justify the wizard/fighter double standard in the first place. First, let's finish the sentence: "If everyone is special, nobody is special." No one wants to include that last word, because then it might occur to someone that there are two kinds of being special being discussed, and it isn't some kind of fuzzy average, either: [LIST] [*]Everyone is special. Everyone is a human being, with human dignity, "endowed by their creator" or some amazing biological/socialogical entity or however you want to talk about it. [*]No one is special. They've got their blind spots and problems, along with their bright spots and triumphs. End of the day, "just folks." [/LIST]The thought behind it has only ever been true when you narrow it down to something in particular. 100 meter dash? Yeah, we've got everything from "top of the line special" to "nowhere even near the subject matter." :D Bringing this back around, the case for the wizard being special as a caster of arcane magic is not the case for the wizard being somehow special compared to other D&D characters as a whole. [/QUOTE]

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