MichaelSomething
Legend
Why do we need Bards when you can make a multi class Fighter/Rouge/Sorcerer who specializes in enchantment spells?
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0050.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0050.html
The D&D Paladin is also a stereotype...in fact, it goes one better: it's two stereotypes at once!It's not a stereotype, it's an iconic part of medieval fantasy. If new age Wiccans arbitrarily started calling themselves paladins, would we be having the same conversation about how the D&D paladin is such a stereotype? Yes, we would. Sheer silliness.
I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm saying look closely at the reasons you're doing it with an eye to less mechanics rather than more.And, yes, not every concept needs to be reflected mechanically, but not every concept needs to not be reflected mechanically. Insinuating that it's somehow wrong to homebrew classes that are interesting enough for some people to want to homebrew is absurd.
Shouldn't be that hard to forego all martial-based feats in favour of other things and play either as a pacifist or just a person who is very poor with weapons. Most half-decent DMs would probably also let you take some other ability in place of heavy armour use.And the absurdity of the official cleric class is that it insists the cleric is martially trained, when it's very easy to imagine an adventuring cleric that is not martially trained. But there are no cleric options that fill that concept, so it leaves those interested in having it to create it.
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Shouldn't be that hard to forego all martial-based feats in favour of other things and play either as a pacifist or just a person who is very poor with weapons. Most half-decent DMs would probably also let you take some other ability in place of heavy armour use.
Lanefan
Have we really reached #notallpaladins ?The D&D Paladin is also a stereotype...in fact, it goes one better: it's two stereotypes at once!
It's the holy crusader stereotype (which not everybody finds pleasant to have in the game, in part because it's based on the knights of one particular religion)
It's also the lawful-stupid stereotype from within the game itself.
But the broom-flying cackling witch stereotype has really had its day, and doesn't require yet further perpetuation.
I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm saying look closely at the reasons you're doing it with an eye to less mechanics rather than more.
Shouldn't be that hard to forego all martial-based feats in favour of other things and play either as a pacifist or just a person who is very poor with weapons. Most half-decent DMs would probably also let you take some other ability in place of heavy armour use.
Lanefan