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<blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1543627" data-attributes="member: 14316">Listen to Dogbrain!&nbsp; Dogbrain is wise!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp; You could go with the mythic/Campbellian hero theme, but in your typical game this requires a great deal of DM fiat, and your entire gaming group needs to be on the same page.&nbsp; If your group has a King Arthur in it, more power to you.&nbsp; But I think most groups don't.You could go with the alignment-based moral thought route, but then if you do that, every lawful good character is a hero, regardless of what type of character they play.&nbsp; A 20th level paladin smiting a kobold murderer/rapist?&nbsp; In the standard game cosmology, definitely a good, ethically correct, morally upstanding act.&nbsp; But does that make him a hero?In the end I don't think there are/can be heroes in the game.&nbsp; But there can be heroic actions.&nbsp; I would define a heroic action as an action where you put yourself (your PC) personally at great risk to help good creatures.&nbsp; Thus, a fighter facing a horde of charging orcs to give the villagers a chance to escape is a hero.&nbsp; A fighter facing a horde of charging orcs to protect his evil necromancer leader, out of fear of what his boss will do if he doesn't, is not a hero.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="silentspace, post: 1543627, member: 14316"] Listen to Dogbrain! Dogbrain is wise! :p You could go with the mythic/Campbellian hero theme, but in your typical game this requires a great deal of DM fiat, and your entire gaming group needs to be on the same page. If your group has a King Arthur in it, more power to you. But I think most groups don't. You could go with the alignment-based moral thought route, but then if you do that, every lawful good character is a hero, regardless of what type of character they play. A 20th level paladin smiting a kobold murderer/rapist? In the standard game cosmology, definitely a good, ethically correct, morally upstanding act. But does that make him a hero? In the end I don't think there are/can be heroes in the game. But there can be heroic actions. I would define a heroic action as an action where you put yourself (your PC) personally at great risk to help good creatures. Thus, a fighter facing a horde of charging orcs to give the villagers a chance to escape is a hero. A fighter facing a horde of charging orcs to protect his evil necromancer leader, out of fear of what his boss will do if he doesn't, is not a hero. [/QUOTE]

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