Remathilis
Legend
I'm fine with that definition. The issue becomes how much should the fighter/warlord/rogue/etc go past that line. Do we hard cap them at the line permanently (what D&D does now), do we let them break that line when a sufficient number of orcs have been slaughtered, or do we let them consider the line a quaint notion for lesser mortals right out the gate?To me the line is, "is it at all possible that a person can do this in real life? Bonus points if it can be done reliably. If not, it is supernatural by my definition (and I'm pretty sure the dictionary's).
I'm fine with a purely mundane martial PC and accept that that is what people want even if they experience diminishing returns as the game progresses. I'm equally fine with a purely supernatural martial class out the gate who can match a caster across the board. My two big nos are classes that start "mundane" and arbitrarily become supernatural at high level, and the "this ability resembles magic, but it's mundane so it's not limited in the same ways magic is" answers. If you want mundane, be mundane. If you want supernatural, be supernatural. But don't be supernatural and call it mundane.
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