honestly if you love D&D you really ought to read some Moorcock
he's in D&D's DNA a lot more than Tolkien, in my opinion
oh yes I very much agree. The way alignment was handled in the early days (and has stubbornly held on despite having lost that context) really only makes sense when you consider the whole Law vs Chaos thing from Moorcock's books.
Fighter with a polearm focus and the leadership feat with a cohort that carries one of every polearm in the game. The cohort acts as his caddy and advises him on the best pole arm for every encounter.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Fighter with a polearm focus and the leadership feat with a cohort that carries one of every polearm in the game. The cohort acts as his caddy and advises him on the best pole arm for every encounter.
"Ah, yes, I recommend a guisarme for this one, sirrah."
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Similarly I have also humored making a gunslinger with the leadership feat who is a snooty aristocrat that is too good to reload his own weapons and has his man servant do it for him.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Make a human who came from our dimension who firmly believes magic and the other races do not exist.
Similarly I have also humored making a gunslinger with the leadership feat who is a snooty aristocrat that is too good to reload his own weapons and has his man servant do it for him.
Some sort of magic user that is paranoid that people knowing they can use magic will cause issues. So every time they cast a spell they either play it off as somebody else doing it, just a coincidence, or for very flashy direct ones act like it's just magic potions/items they have. Burning hands is soaking your hands in a mystery fluid that catches your hands on fire. It's just water, but you play it off as special alchemists fire. Bring shiny darts you never use but say you are when casting magic missile.
Probably helps to have charm spells and an unnaturally high bluff.
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
Fighter with a polearm focus and the leadership feat with a cohort that carries one of every polearm in the game. The cohort acts as his caddy and advises him on the best pole arm for every encounter.
make a halfling who wears a helmet that has an axe blade on either side of it
and loops on his boots
the boots are secured very tightly, you see
Pony on
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
i still love only war's weapon specialist comrade talent (comrades are basically helper NPCs mostly all classes get)
you basically get to switch weapons as a free action when your comrade is nearby, so... they're a gun caddy!
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Some of my group are starting up a savage worlds superhero campaign in contemporary Seattle.
They get to have sidekick allies, of a slightly lower power level.
I suggested to one of them that they create a sidekick who could heal with a touch, transmogrify food, whose blood was a mild toxin that cause minor intoxication, could walk on water and would resurrect after 3 days if killed.
That's right, I made sidekick second coming of Jesus.
I mean, how cool must your main PC be if his sidekick is Jesus?
Plus, all those great name drop moments...
"Jesus, take the wheel!"
"Jesus, what would you do?"
"I don't know, I just thought the Holy Son would be less of a dick...".
because i have tons of silly warforged character ideas
let me tell you about
warforged druids who take feats that let them wildshape into "any creature of their hit dice and creature type" which includes constructs and erego animated objects (regardless of your level, really, since animated objects can be any size and HD) and
now i am making transformer noises okay?
yeah
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chiasaur11Never doubt a raccoon.Do you think it's trademarked?Registered Userregular
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A bard who rents out his services to act as a "Cleric" to gods who aren't up to snuff. Let's say that the local cult of Gam-Ra, turtle god of the sun, is in decline since some big fancy temple to Pelor showed up. You hire this guy, he rolls into town and challenges the priests to an old school god versus god showdown, cheats to win with arcane powers, and runs before anyone can call him out or prove that it wasn't the mighty Gam-Ra providing the miracles after all.
For a small bonus fee, he'll do a rewrite of the relevant mythology so people will think that your god is (delete as appropriate) wise, merciful, merciless, probably not going to rape anyone while disguised as a swan, etc.
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Satans..... hints.....
well the religion part of the discussion is directly related to how gods are used in RPG settings
weird diversion about historical atrocities aside
this has actually been a pretty on-point discussion of the subject as it pertains to RPG settings really
they are so shiny and new I should really just make my friends play with the old ones
he's in D&D's DNA a lot more than Tolkien, in my opinion
oh yes I very much agree. The way alignment was handled in the early days (and has stubbornly held on despite having lost that context) really only makes sense when you consider the whole Law vs Chaos thing from Moorcock's books.
Warhound and the World's Pain. Or The Warlord of the Air.
Give me your dumbest character
Well, start with a wisdom stat of 1.
Fighter with a polearm focus and the leadership feat with a cohort that carries one of every polearm in the game. The cohort acts as his caddy and advises him on the best pole arm for every encounter.
Then have their intelligence stat also be 1.
"Ah, yes, I recommend a guisarme for this one, sirrah."
While you're at it, make their charisma a 1 as well.
Dexterity? 1.
Now, Strength and Constitution?
MAX THOSE FUCKERS OUT
Cwell the Fine lives again
Then, make them a magic user.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
Then body swap him into a dwarf.
Satans..... hints.....
Probably helps to have charm spells and an unnaturally high bluff.
no no he asked for the dumbest character
and loops on his boots
the boots are secured very tightly, you see
you basically get to switch weapons as a free action when your comrade is nearby, so... they're a gun caddy!
They get to have sidekick allies, of a slightly lower power level.
I suggested to one of them that they create a sidekick who could heal with a touch, transmogrify food, whose blood was a mild toxin that cause minor intoxication, could walk on water and would resurrect after 3 days if killed.
That's right, I made sidekick second coming of Jesus.
I mean, how cool must your main PC be if his sidekick is Jesus?
Plus, all those great name drop moments...
"Jesus, take the wheel!"
"Jesus, what would you do?"
"I don't know, I just thought the Holy Son would be less of a dick...".
because i have tons of silly warforged character ideas
let me tell you about
warforged druids who take feats that let them wildshape into "any creature of their hit dice and creature type" which includes constructs and erego animated objects (regardless of your level, really, since animated objects can be any size and HD) and
now i am making transformer noises okay?
yeah
For a small bonus fee, he'll do a rewrite of the relevant mythology so people will think that your god is (delete as appropriate) wise, merciful, merciless, probably not going to rape anyone while disguised as a swan, etc.
Why I fear the ocean.
a recorder
like
the wind instrument you failed to learn to play in 7th grade
I have that physical prop for my bard in DnD.
Satans..... hints.....