If X fought Y, who would win?
This type of question is most often found in the form “Enterprise vs. Death Star,” or, more appropriately, “10th level fighter vs. 10th level mage,” “Raistlin vs. Elminster,” or “Driz’zt vs. Da Bears.” (For da record, even wit’ a mini-Ditka, Da Bears take it, 42-3; Da Bears let da elf have a last-second field goal so he don’t feel so bad. Pass da brats, will ya?) Asking this type of question is also a sure-fire way to not make any friends among the long-time posters. The one true answer is…whomever the writer/poster wants to win, wins. Alternatively, in novels which feature one of TSR’s big hitters, a la Driz’zt or Raistlin, all cross-world dueling is frowned upon; if it actually happens, it generally ends in a draw so that no group of fans feels that their hero got shafted. It may seem fun to speculate, but there is no sure way of determining a winner; and picking one just gets the fans of the character you picked to lose mad (and usually flaming) at you. It is not in the group’s be
