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I think we need one of these, so I made one (if an admin could kindly add it to the media thread list that'd be ace).
Also I'm probably gonna be getting tabletop sim for Christmas which will lead to all manner of tabletop shenanigannery.
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Right now I'm about to embark on a solo Pathfinder campaign playing as a witch. If anyone feels like commenting on my character, here's the sheet: http://pastebin.com/WBFSfEhY
Note that some house-rules have been used when building this character.
The campaign is meant to be a metroidvania-like "megadungeon", so the spells list looks weird because of that.
Last night I found myself bored in bed and surfing DriveThruRPG for anime-related systems. Something always felt a little weird about BESM. Found OVA, which I remembered I'd seen somewhere -- and I think it was a kickstarter a while back.
I feel like I kinda want some way of statting out characters in such a way that is "transferable". It's something I kinda did as a kid. I gave Pokémon team lineups and assigned character-specific personal weapons to Voltron characters, imagining them as mon trainers and martial artists. I wrote up elemental affinities and magic spells for some schoolyard acquaintances. It's just something fun to do, to be able to put together characters in a way that goes beyond simply dealing with them as static devices within their own universes and stories; sometimes I can't exactly use the characters as is but I can always modify them in my imagination to fit together in a way that makes sense. My Belphegor University musings are probably a version of this.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It was called Everyone Is Joker
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
This probably would involve, relatively speaking, more emphasis on defining characters' abilities, and less emphasis on defining aspects of personality like intelligence or charisma.
I played Mutants & Masterminds once and I kinda remember something vaguely like this, with like buying abilities and weaknesses to build characters.
I've also heard of a thing called Super Console which I might check out at some point, though that might be a bit too gamey. I'm thinking more simulationist.
I guess I'll check that out too.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Also unrelated but I'm far too controlling to ever play tabletop games. I just start wanting to make my own game and get distracted.
It's why I'm making an RPG even though I really don't have much experience with them >_>
They changed making the target roll a reflex save (in 3.5e) to making the caster roll an attack (in 5e)?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Delivering touch attacks and other targeted attacks, on the other hand, is an attack roll, IIRC.
So, like, fireball is AOE so roll reflex saves, while shocking grasp is targeted so roll to attack.
This is what I know of 3.5 (and consequently Pathfinder).
Giving their abilities to other alignments cheapens the cost they pay
for having to stay LG. They are trusted with that power because they
can't misuse it. CE antipaladins literally CANNOT misuse their
power...anything is acceptable, anything goes.
MOving away from LG should progressively weaken the powers paladins
should get. Chaotics, after all, can lie, cheat, bluff, steal, break
laws, get drunk, have sex freely, stir up rebellion, and so forth. AND
give them everything a Paladin can do? I'm sorry, potentially being the
only class that can use a Holy Avenger isn't fair.
LE and CE can add murder, assassination, poison and drug use,
blackmail, torture, rape, use of fiends and all THAT to the list. And
they should get the reversed powers of paladins, too?
I don't think so.
TL;DR the other alignments can do anything. Paladin's OP abilities are balanced by being very restricted in what they can do.
counterargument:
the above argument presumes the paladin's code is about morality and ethics. instead, the counterargument is that the paladin's code is based on zealotry -- i.e. why they do it:
Paladins are Lawful Good but can be for a God/dess of any alignment.
Lawful means you follow strict rules. Paladins are a member of a
militant arm of their church. Being part of a military they must adhere
to strict rules, follow a chain of command, do as their superiors tell
them etc. Therefore Paladins are a part of a Lawful militant order of
their church.
Good means doing things for the betterment of others rather than your
own personal gain. As long as the paladin is putting aside their own
personal fortune and prestige in order to better their church's goals
and look after their church's followers and interests then they are
good.
One of my players had a LG paladin of Calistria and I have so far not
had a problem with it. She is a prostitute of the church and as long as
she puts her church's interests ahead of her own and does what the
church and her superiors demand of her then I have no problem with it.
She overseas disputes and puts peoples rights to revenge at the
forfront. An eye for an eye. She promotes lust and polygamy among the
populace. She sleeps around and she tries to right any wrongs she sees
being done by helping those avenged to seek a suitable revenge in
fitting with the slight against them.
Personally I wouldn't go so far as to agree with having LG paladins of any alignment, even CE, but I think that having paladins or paladin equivalents of other alignments based on their dedication to the cause actually makes the most sense.
So you'd have your "lawful evil paladin", which is basically a fascist an authoritarian enforcer who believes in harsh punishments, but who does not because he/she gains anything but only because he/she just believes in it. Or perhaps a "chaotic neutral paladin", who goes around causing disorder and fomenting disruption against both good and evil regimes, again not for personal amusement but to serve what they believe to be the proper condition of the world. Something like that.
Incidentally Pathfinder does have an Inquisitor class, which seems to be Paladin minus alignment restriction plus allowed to be dickish when it serves the cause. So basically a Paladin with a Rogue outlook.
Copied posts are from this thread: http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mqg6?Paladin-Alignment
For the record: I do not have an opinion on whether the paladin's ability list is overpowered. At present I do not feel that I have sufficient perspective regarding D&D3.5 or Pathfinder, the two systems I do know, to draw subtle conclusions regarding game balance.
For example, rather than having an existing pantheon of deities, it would have guidelines for designing your own deities.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
On a more serious note, though...
Ryuutama seems to be pretty well-geared toward novice players and GMs, especially collaboration between the two, and also has lots of room for growth and depth. I think the rulebook even includes a sample scenario.
The PDF's like $9.99 but if you let me know I can share my copy with you privately.
I am not familiar enough with any other systems to say for sure whether they work well for first-timers, aside from D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder which I wouldn't recommend for first-timers.
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