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tle_mgr — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 11:39 AM)
Keep reading if you are a geek, nerd or just curious.
In the D&D world, things out of fairy tales and myths are alive. It is very similar to video games like World of Warcraft. Although the game centers on humans, you can play other human-like races (in this case race is not a color, but are actual groups of humanoids), such as Elves, Dwarves, Halflings (Hobbits), half-Orcs and Half-Ogres (both which are half humans) to name a few.
In this kind of world, certain humans can achieve superhuman or even godlike abilities.
To put it in simple English. Let say that a normal human male would have these abilities:
The average human males are at least
level 1
with statistics like this.
Hit Dice: 0-6
Strength: 10
Constitution: 9
Intelligence: 10
Wisdom: 9
Dexterity: 8
Charisma: 9
At most an exceptional male can achieve a level 3 and add +2 to all of those scores.
Well in D&D some humans an humanlike beings can achieve far more. While humanoids are usually limited to fantastic levels of 12 or 16 and some of the abilities reaching a staggering 18, humans can achieve far greater to 18/00 for strength.
Although the maximum ability score a human can achieve is 18 in any of those categories, with magic or divine intervention he can actually expand to the 20s.
Consider that a human with 18 strength would equal the strength and power of the strongest human body builder or powerbuilder, except this human did not have to lift weights to achieve this strength!
A strength of 18/00 is nearly demigod strength. Thus a strength of 19 and beyond, would put character on par with Giants and gods. Able to bend bars, throw horses etc.
In addition, exceptional humans are not limited to levels some have actually reached up to 100th level. Granted for a human, there are very little benefits to this after 30th level, unless you are a spell caster. In which case some of your spells, such as a Fireball would do damage equal to your level! Consider that magicians get the fireball spell at 3rd level. This means the fire ball would do 3 x 6pts of damage. In D&D all damage is equated to numbers of dice. Usually in die roles of 4,6, 8, 10 or 20. So a 6 damage dice is written as 1d6 and if something does 3x 1d6, it is written as 3d6 for short. To put in perspective a normal human has about 3 hit points, so if he takes 1 hit point he is severely injured. 2 hit points he is critically injured and if he take 3 hit points, he is dead.
So a third level magicians who fires off a Fireball that does 3d6 damage would do a damage ranging from 3-18 pts of damage! At 30th level magician would do a whopping 30d6 dice of damage. Consider that the typical napalm bomb dropped in the Vietnam conflict.
Although there are Gods, like Thor, Odin and Zeus and Demon Princes like Demogorgon, who technically rule over humans and the universe, in D&D it is possible for humans to gain enough power to even challenge them.
Typically, the Dungeon Master, that is the person narrating the storyline adventure, can decide if Gods and Demon lords are just unfathomable beings beyond the reach of humans or they are physical beings capable of being killed like any human.
This pertains to Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1 and 2, not the later versions.
Also there is a Basic D&D, that is much more simpler and is written to ensure that no matter how powerful humans are, they are still no match for the Immortals (D&D doesn't use the word "gods" in this particular game).