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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5971533" data-attributes="member: 3887">I like that idea... privilege. But that doesn't apply to my examples. I wasn't talking about PCs jumping off cliffs for the heck or it, or being immolated by magical fire as part of their nightly exfoliating routine. I was talking about the common situations adventures find themselves in while adventuring. As the Borg might say, meat is irrelevant. The PC can eat the damage (without any outside assistance). Even it you're defining this as 'luck' or 'grit' -- it's mythic luck, mythic grit. It describes a person and a world which is wholly unrealistic/not-mortal-as-we-know-it. For the first few levels, I agree with you. But by 10th, the fighter is John Carter on Mars or maybe Rama, not your average above-average Bruce Willis character. Also, your typical Hollywood action hero can usually be sucker punched/caught unaware/knocked out by a single blow. Your typical 10th level fighter cannot, ever, by knocked out by a surprise blow from behind. Even if it's a blow from a Titan --as per AD&amp;D 2e-- out of Greek myth. Unless, of course, the fighter just fell off a 100' cliff (or two). There are, you must admit, some differences, between Central Casting in Hollywood and Greyhawk. I was describing the kinds of things that tend to happen to 10th level PCs. Do you disagree with this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 5971533, member: 3887"] I like that idea... privilege. But that doesn't apply to my examples. I wasn't talking about PCs jumping off cliffs for the heck or it, or being immolated by magical fire as part of their nightly exfoliating routine. I was talking about the common situations adventures find themselves in [i]while adventuring[/i]. As the Borg might say, meat is irrelevant. The PC can eat the damage (without any outside assistance). Even it you're defining this as 'luck' or 'grit' -- it's mythic luck, mythic grit. It describes a person and a world which is wholly unrealistic/not-mortal-as-we-know-it. For the first few levels, I agree with you. But by 10th, the fighter is John Carter on Mars or maybe Rama, not your average above-average Bruce Willis character. Also, your typical Hollywood action hero can usually be sucker punched/caught unaware/knocked out by a single blow. Your typical 10th level fighter cannot, ever, by knocked out by a surprise blow from behind. Even if it's a blow from a Titan --as per AD&D 2e-- out of Greek myth. Unless, of course, the fighter just fell off a 100' cliff (or two). There are, you must admit, some differences, between Central Casting in Hollywood and Greyhawk. I was describing the kinds of things that tend to happen to 10th level PCs. Do you disagree with this? [/QUOTE]

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