D&D 5E [+] Ways to fix the caster / non-caster gap

[Crimson Longinus]

In any case, the point about comic books is that characters of wildly different power levels working together or fighting each other works due insane amount of plot armour and other writer provided plot contrivances. So unless one wants to turn D&D into a game with a crazy amount of narrative plot control mechanics, the same won't work for here.

 

[Cadence]

In any case, the point about comic books is that characters of wildly different power levels working together or fighting each other works due insane amount of plot armour and other writer provided plot contrivances. So unless one wants to turn D&D into a game with a crazy amount of narrative plot control mechanics, the same won't work for here.

We know HP aren't meat. Are they plot armor? If so, what if they were given out to the different classes as such?

 

[James Gasik]

I meant that Darkseid didn't randomly kill Bruce at some later date to prevent any future Apokolyptic Bat-shenanigans. (Presumably DS had quickly removed the bombs after Bats left?)

Oh what he did was a play on exact words; he'd been holding Supergirl and brainwashing her to be his slave. Batman forced him to let her leave Apokolips, but Darkseid was like "Nobody said I couldn't come to Earth to get her" and showed up at the Kent farm for an epic brawl with Clark and Kara.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

We know HP aren't meat. Are they plot armor? If so, what if they were given out to the different classes as such?

I guess one could interpret them that way, but personally I wouldn't.

But in any case, you'd need active plot control mechanics in order to work like Batman works alongside Superman.

 

[James Gasik]

We know HP aren't meat. Are they plot armor? If so, what if they were given out to the different classes as such?

They're more like "flesh wounds" from action movies, where the protagonist totally gets hurt, but they keep on going through pure adrenaline and badassery, despite leaving enough blood for two or three people all over the place.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

They're more like "flesh wounds" from action movies, where the protagonist totally gets hurt, but they keep on going through pure adrenaline and badassery, despite leaving enough blood for two or three people all over the place.

Yes, that's how I see them as well.

 

[Cadence]

They're more like "flesh wounds" from action movies, where the protagonist totally gets hurt, but they keep on going through pure adrenaline and badassery, despite leaving enough blood for two or three people all over the place.

I usually view them as part that and part undefinable heroic chutzpah. A sizeable portion on here are vegetarian except for the last point.

 

[Pedantic]

They're more like "flesh wounds" from action movies, where the protagonist totally gets hurt, but they keep on going through pure adrenaline and badassery, despite leaving enough blood for two or three people all over the place.

With a little extra juice on the trope, for the jumping off buildings and wading through lava stuff.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

With a little extra juice on the trope, for the jumping off buildings and wading through lava stuff.

Those are kind of situations where the whole HP mechanic just seems to collapse.

 

[Gammadoodler]

In any case, the point about comic books is that characters of wildly different power levels working together or fighting each other works due insane amount of plot armour and other writer provided plot contrivances. So unless one wants to turn D&D into a game with a crazy amount of narrative plot control mechanics, the same won't work for here.

Sure. And I'd mostly agree with that. Just seemed like a weird characterization of those two character's histories.