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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 6157673" data-attributes="member: 48965">What original point, because I wasn't the original OP you responded to, and I just want to be clear and make sure we are on the same page here. Now that said, I feel like you're the one cherry picking, we are speaking to genre consistency not consistency with one particular character in said genre...  in other words we're asking are the things that happen in-game consistent with the appendix N stories that inspired it...I would say for the most part yes.  What we aren't asking is are the characters in the game replicas of Conan or Gray Mouser...Well there are PC's and they become "main" PC's or "secondary" PC's through the fiction we create while playing the game. The main difference is a single person decides in a story while many more factors decide it in a game of D&D... I'm not sure why I would "gripe" about this though, could you please expound on what you mean? As to the different tropes that main characters and secondary characters follow, please expound on those because Smiorgan Baldhead comes off as a main character (and quite likable) all the way up to the point where he is burned to death by Melnibonean dragons.  Please explain to me what you meant by genre consistency, because in my mind D&D is pretty genre consistent (as opposed to being consistent with a single character from the genre which seems to be where your argument is going) with the fiction that inspired it.  I also agree with the fact that "but that doesn't happen to Conan!" is more than a pretty weak argument (especially since it's an argument against SoD) since, Conan the character is not a genre and you've made no agreement to play the protagonist in a game of D&D... only a character. On a side note... what is your point because your argument seems incoherent.  Maybe it's the medium (an internet forum) but I am having a seriously hard time (especially after this last post) figuring out what exactly I am "proving" for you?  So please enlighten me.</blockquote>

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