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<blockquote data-quote="Corinth" data-source="post: 3511522" data-attributes="member: 497">That's not a rebuttal.&nbsp; Being a hero doesn't excuse you from acquiring the necessary traits and features needed to become competent at your profession, maintaining them while in use and improving them when opportunity allows.Not impressed.&nbsp; Disbelief.&nbsp; Not hired.&nbsp; Blackballed.BS.&nbsp; High heels are known to be detrimental to effective maneuver in combat; that's why real combatants don't wear them in fights.&nbsp; (And no, citing movies or similar fiction doesn't count.)Obvious liar, probable psychotic.&nbsp; Compelled civil commitment, not hired for the dangerous work that adventuring commonly deals with, is the result.D&amp;D PCs--in actual play--are far closer to professional soldiers, spies and criminals than comic book or blockbuster action heroes.&nbsp; Figures that don't conform to the known standard traits and features required to successfully achieve that status--especially the specifics of a given specific profession--fail to create credible fictions; this is why reality trumps fantasy, why truth is stranger than fiction, and why verisimilitude matters at all times in all things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corinth, post: 3511522, member: 497"] That's not a rebuttal. Being a hero doesn't excuse you from acquiring the necessary traits and features needed to become competent at your profession, maintaining them while in use and improving them when opportunity allows. Not impressed. Disbelief. Not hired. Blackballed. BS. High heels are known to be detrimental to effective maneuver in combat; that's why real combatants don't wear them in fights. (And no, citing movies or similar fiction doesn't count.) Obvious liar, probable psychotic. Compelled civil commitment, not hired for the dangerous work that adventuring commonly deals with, is the result. D&D PCs--in actual play--are far closer to professional soldiers, spies and criminals than comic book or blockbuster action heroes. Figures that don't conform to the known standard traits and features required to successfully achieve that status--especially the specifics of a given specific profession--fail to create credible fictions; this is why reality trumps fantasy, why truth is stranger than fiction, and why verisimilitude matters at all times in all things. [/QUOTE]

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