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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3976108" data-attributes="member: 158">Exactly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In the Hero example (which is a good example to use), their deflection of arrows in that shot totally blows away all thought that what they're doing is anything but magical; in an anti-magic field, they shouldn't be doing any of that. On the other hand, let's take another example -- a hero being thrown through a plate glass window without being cut to ribbons -- I could believe it a lot more readily happening in an anti-magic field.The Hero example of those two characters deflecting THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of arrows is nothing short of use of the supernatural; The whole Beowulf thing I can't see, either, but then, I'm not talking Beowulf, or even Roland splitting people stem to stern in one blow. I'm talking heroics in the vein of the Conan movies, or even the original Star Wars films, which are still impossible (Luke doing the whole tow-cable up to the AT-AT and taking it out with one bomb after crash-landing and almost getting squished? Yeah, right) but still bend the physics without abandoning them completely.Yes, it's a matter of personal taste; I don't think anyone disputes that. But I do disagree if someone insinuates they don't see any difference in magic use between, say, The Musketeer's derring-do moves versus Hero's arrow deflections.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 3976108, member: 158"] Exactly. :) In the [U]Hero [/U]example (which is a good example to use), their deflection of arrows in that shot totally blows away all thought that what they're doing is anything but magical; in an anti-magic field, they shouldn't be doing any of that. On the other hand, let's take another example -- a hero being thrown through a plate glass window without being cut to ribbons -- I could believe it a lot more readily happening in an anti-magic field. The [U]Hero [/U]example of those two characters deflecting THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of arrows is nothing short of use of the supernatural; The whole Beowulf thing I can't see, either, but then, I'm not talking Beowulf, or even Roland splitting people stem to stern in one blow. I'm talking heroics in the vein of the Conan movies, or even the original Star Wars films, which are still impossible (Luke doing the whole tow-cable up to the AT-AT and taking it out with one bomb after crash-landing and almost getting squished? Yeah, right) but still bend the physics without abandoning them completely. Yes, it's a matter of personal taste; I don't think anyone disputes that. But I do disagree if someone insinuates they don't see any difference in magic use between, say, The Musketeer's derring-do moves versus [U]Hero[/U]'s arrow deflections. [/QUOTE]

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