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<blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5025781" data-attributes="member: 26473">Exceptional is relative.Some gamers assume that their characters are the adventurers in the setting, in which case, yes, they are most exceptional. But some gamers treat the player characters as largely unexceptional, in a world where adventurer is a recognized profession, just another a trade with its own guilds, for example.You can see the latter view in other games as well. In Traveller, the pilot of a merchant starship is about as unexceptional as a pilot for a communter airline in our real world existence. It's an interesting job, but it isn't wildly exceptional.Does that view apply to a paladin? Or a lawful good cleric?I think that's a pretty narrow interpretation of the motivations for adventurers in games like D&amp;D. In this I agree that this separates player characters in some games from non-player characters - this is not universal across roleplaying games, however.The degree to which characters are exceptional in terms of abilities varies considerably as well. Boot Hill, for example, gives player characters a slight bump on their starting attribute scores, and that's it. It's possible to start with a character who is average in every way; what a player character won't be is below average.I agree very strongly with this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Shaman, post: 5025781, member: 26473"] Exceptional is relative. Some gamers assume that their characters are [i]the[/i] adventurers in the setting, in which case, yes, they are most exceptional. But some gamers treat the player characters as largely unexceptional, in a world where adventurer is a recognized profession, just another a trade with its own guilds, for example. You can see the latter view in other games as well. In [i]Traveller[/i], the pilot of a merchant starship is about as unexceptional as a pilot for a communter airline in our real world existence. It's an interesting job, but it isn't wildly exceptional.Does that view apply to a paladin? Or a [I]lawful good[/I] cleric? I think that's a pretty narrow interpretation of the motivations for adventurers in games like [i]D&D[/i]. In this I agree that this separates player characters [I]in some games[/I] from non-player characters - this is not universal across roleplaying games, however. The degree to which characters are exceptional in terms of abilities varies considerably as well. [i]Boot Hill[/i], for example, gives player characters a slight bump on their starting attribute scores, and that's it. It's possible to start with a character who is average in every way; what a player character won't be is [I]below[/I] average.I agree very strongly with this. [/QUOTE]

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