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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 2609360" data-attributes="member: 4722">We use the term "legendary" in place of epic. Epic, to us, means something grand and sweeping, like an epic story arc. Legendary, now... that's more in line with what d20 Dwarf is thinking.Shtar is a high-magic, high-power world - there are lots of legendary figures running around, but they're not like Elminster, sitting on their butts while the PCs deal with the world's problems. No, they're right in the mix, duking it out with each other (and sometimes the PCs, directly or indirectly). The gods themselves commonly send avatars to walk among their worshipppers (a god's power is directly related to the number, power, and faith of his worshippers). Anyone who kills a god (or his avatar) can take that god's portfolio. So, then, what is legenary for us? Figures like Fallstaff the Magus, IV, Gor DuMay, Ralts Bloodthorne... these are the legendary figures that tread the lands of Shtar. They have been around (and in some cases, alive) for thousands of years. They have led armies, started and finished wars (in IV's case, she rose from the ocean after being missing and thought dead for a thousand years or so, declared herself in a voice heard 'round the world, and stopped two major wars). These are some of the most feared and powerful beings on the planet, people who haven taken on the Lich Kings, ultrapowerful undead who ruled all of Shtar for several thousand years, and won. People who have carved their names in history, in blood and fire, for better or worse. People who have killed gods and rejected the portfolios.Now, granted, these are extremely hgh-level characters. What should "normal" legendary characters be able to do, then? Why shouldn't they be able to swim up a waterfall or dance across a cloud? Don't normal people consider those abilities beyond the normal ken? What about flying to the moon, or lassoing a whirlwind, taming an elder dragon, establishing your own kingdom, starting an order of monks/wizards/warriors/whatever, creating/destroying artifacts... the list of things possible at his level of power is limited only by the DM's and the players' imaginations.</blockquote>

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