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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5971619" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>Thought of another one -- swim in rough water wearing heavy armor. I just read last night that a Polish knight was one of the few knight survivors of the battle of Nicopolis (very late 14th century, or thereabouts), who got away by swimming across the Danube. All the other knights that tried it reportedly drowned or got killed from the Turks' archery. It's implied that the water wasn't that rough, and maybe this didn't really happen, but there are enough reports of similar feats either achieved or close to think that this is at least on the upper end of "mundane".</p><p> </p><p>I don't remember exactly the details of Troilus's more mythic swim, but I believe it was in the ocean or at least in some tides. In any event, at some point swimming in heavy armor and/or rescuing other people while swimming becomes mythic.</p><p> </p><p>Edit: Also from the Corwin example, better natural healing abilities can turn into mythic. Corwin has outright but slow regeneration. But you don't have to go that far, at least not until the upper range. (Your brain damage correcting itself is more in 500 foot leap territory.) Merely having proportional healing for all characters is a subtle form of mythic, in that the fighter is taking a lot of damage but effectively heals faster too. You can't keep him down for long. A more overt mythic slant on that would be another boost to make the fighter heal even faster than proportionally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5971619, member: 54877"] Thought of another one -- swim in rough water wearing heavy armor. I just read last night that a Polish knight was one of the few knight survivors of the battle of Nicopolis (very late 14th century, or thereabouts), who got away by swimming across the Danube. All the other knights that tried it reportedly drowned or got killed from the Turks' archery. It's implied that the water wasn't that rough, and maybe this didn't really happen, but there are enough reports of similar feats either achieved or close to think that this is at least on the upper end of "mundane". I don't remember exactly the details of Troilus's more mythic swim, but I believe it was in the ocean or at least in some tides. In any event, at some point swimming in heavy armor and/or rescuing other people while swimming becomes mythic. Edit: Also from the Corwin example, better natural healing abilities can turn into mythic. Corwin has outright but slow regeneration. But you don't have to go that far, at least not until the upper range. (Your brain damage correcting itself is more in 500 foot leap territory.) Merely having proportional healing for all characters is a subtle form of mythic, in that the fighter is taking a lot of damage but effectively heals faster too. You can't keep him down for long. A more overt mythic slant on that would be another boost to make the fighter heal even faster than proportionally. [/QUOTE]
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