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>Why can martials move 100,000mph only to dodge lightning?
They anticipate it and move before the bolt fires. That's why it's a "reflex" save and not a speed check.
Not a terribly hard thing for a skilled combatant to do against a combat-unskilled scholar.
>What about telekinetic spine cuts? Or flash-boiling your bodily fluids?
Why can't you channel positive energy into objects to fix them? Or cast banishment on a locked door? Creatures with souls and wills abide by different laws than inanimate objects. You would need to defeat their will to achieve a marginal result.
>Hit points are unrealistic! One explosion should kill a bunch of martials easily!
If your body and reflexes are trained enough you could roll with some incredible force and survive it. Plus, any person who isn't completely flouridated understands being able to feel being in immediate danger, or when they are being watched.
>None of this is realistic! Nobody can do that in real life!
Modern people are extremely slow and dull physically and mentally. Even elite spec-ops and "peak" martial artists don't compare to career warriors of previous eras. There are records of humans from 2000 BC sprinting 40+mph and defeating animals larger than those than exist today in melee combat.
In a fantasy world where most populations are under regular threat by the extraordinary, it's natural to assume that a warrior would be even more capable than any in real life, even before factoring in fantasy physics and such.