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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6157418" data-attributes="member: 3400">Except that doesn't necessarily logically follow. Why should I expect someone who can take a giant's blow to be immune to the effects of venoms and how they effect things like the chemical interactions between neurons? Every time someone says D&D is its own genre I think the reasoning behind that runs along the ragged edge of tautological. Why is jumping off a 100' cliff and walking away D&D genre? Because you can do it in D&D. Why is D&D a separate genre from fantasy? Because you can jump off 100' cliffs and walk away. D&D is definitely fantasy, it's not merely inspired by it. It just doesn't fit any single author's view of fantasy... something common to most authors of fantasy themselves. So unless we're all talking about Howard genre, Lieber genre, Tolkien genre, and Vance genre, I don't really see much point to being that specific over D&D.But what author actually does that? Do you know of any other than people writing one or two-liners about Chuck Norris badassery? I can think of toxins being transformed by Bene Gesserit in Dune, but they're also described as having powers that border on quasi-psionic. But even that is described as an ordeal, not just something people casually do because they're tough.</blockquote>