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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 3350909" data-attributes="member: 1165">I don't know how many gamers have read Conan books nowadays compared to gamers who have read Drizzt books. Drizzt's character, which is fairly well developed, IMO, is well known. If someone who hasn't read any Conan books try to copy Conan, pretty soon they're going to end up developing their own character anyway. Now if they have read a Conan book, and so has the GM, it'll be obvious if they're copying and not just "playing a dumb barbarian". (Not that Conan was dumb, and if you statted him up he'd be a barbarian/rogue/something else).Legolas, if you ask me, doesn't have much personality. He's also not that different from any other elven archer, so again copying him wouldn't work for long (unless you're planning on being really boring).Some of the wizards you mentioned are extremely difficult to "copy" in RP. It's pretty bad if someone simply copies Merlin, but the sort of people who would try it probably couldn't pull it off. Plus I don't think many gamers actually know much about Merlin.Drizzt is developed and unique (unlike, say, Legolas). He uses a race that normally isn't available for play (unlike those other guys, most of whom are human). He has many traits that define him, and you only need to copy a few to be accused of being a Drizzt clone. Plus he makes ranger fans angry; it's too easy to suspect he's the reason for the 2e/3.0 ranger being so messed up.Until Lolth and Eilistraee die, nothing will really change.I don't care about stats (although Obould is only 9th-level, heh heh) but I do care about challenge, and that woudln't change if Obould was officially statted as CR 9 or CR 20. Obould couldn't really challenge Drizzt. No one but Dantrag or Artemis really could (those are the only ones I recall who fought Drizzt by themselves and didn't instantly die).By the way, I don't think it's unrealistic that an orc can match a drow. I hate elf- and drow-uberness.</blockquote>

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