Quote Originally Posted by ThiagoMartell View Post
I never said they were. I said their shtick is hitting things very hard.
Except it's not. You're missing the forest for the trees (really, one tree). It's not like Buffy just stands there and punches stuff hard; she's inflicting the equivalent of status conditions all the time - knocking enemies back, grappling them, "dazing" them, and so on - instead of just gradually working through a mass of hit point tofu. She's a canny combatant and "punching stuff hard" is just a baseline for the sort of fight scenes we see in the series.

That's the sort of fiat system I'm talking about - one where the "Fighter" gets the ability to impose their own direction on combat rather than just being the "hit hard" guy and relying on the DM's permission to do anything beyond that. It's not about, "Buffy shoots fire from her eyes and burns things," it's "Buffy can stagger her opponent, releasing a grapple and preventing them from attacking next round" or something of that nature.

-O