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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5377883" data-attributes="member: 18280">I suppose that depends upon what you mean by "fantastic".I also suppose that depends upon what you mean by "Conan".  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />  When I say "Conan", I refer to nothing apart from the stories written by Robert E. Howard....as written by Robert E. Howard (as opposed to pastiches and poor, but perhaps well-meaning, edits after his death).Ah.  I am sure I could do a webcomic that makes the same mockery of anything turned directly into an rpg.  If that makes the ideas, settings, etc. (i.e., everything but that specific plotline) unusable as fodder for a rpg, I guess we got nothing.That's it folks.  Roll 'em up!  No more rpgs!  They are all a tabletop fallacy at this point!<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />And yes, ProfessorCirno or Raven Crowking, I remember those utterly mundane and non-fantastic characters, like the time Raven Crowking was dominated and controlled every time he fought a wizard, or the time he was stabbed and then bled out and died.But....since those things never happened.....ProfessorCirno and Raven Crowking must be fantastic and/or magical!  (Well, I have been told that I was, but I don't think it was in the context you mean.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> )Oh, wait, that isn't really the definition of mundane, or non-fantastic, is it?In this particular parlance, we are talking about "non-magical".  You are implying that it takes some form of magic to resist magical influence, and that it takes some form of magic to engage in combat...to be wounded in combat, say...and not only survive, but triumph.Now, I can't talk about what might be needed to resist magical influences, as I haven't encountered anything that I would claim to be so in the real world.  However, either you are not a student of history, or you must believe that there have been many, many fantastic and/or magical people throughout human history.  Or maybe you just want to make your point, and don't care about its accuracy.It isn't.RC</blockquote>

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