Excerpt: Paragon paths (merged)

The_Fan · Apr 23, 2008

Dausuul said:
This would be why it doesn't show up anywhere in Merriam-Webster's Online, or Dictionary.com, or Wiktionary?

Give it time. If it becomes common enough usage, it becomes English. Betcha didn't know that the word "honcho" comes from Japanese, being so intimately associated with westerns. Or the word "skosh," being stereotypically yiddish.

But that's a debate for another day.

It seems like the Martial power source will get more mystical through the Paragon level, what with Stormwardens teleporting and flaying people with winds and kensai mystically bonding with their weapons. I like that. I hope the Heroic levels stay relatively grounded though, and the Epic go full out Charles Atlas Superpowers.

Storm-Bringer · Apr 23, 2008

Lackhand said:
Mostly because it's write.

[pejoratively]prescriptivist![/pejoratively]

This battle is not over!!

Cadfan · Apr 23, 2008

Haffrung Helleyes said:
2) since they overlap with base classes, they only have to be balanced against each other, unlike Prestige classes which are balanced by features lost from the base class.

This is particularly important. In 3e, there was often a mismatch caused by when you entered a PRC. A tenth level PRC ability might be available at level 15, if you entered the PRC at level 6. But it also might be gained at level 20. This meant that it was hard to know whether to balance the L10 PRC ability versus comparable L15 abilities, or L20 abilities.

And even worse, if you exited the PRC after level 15, you were back to 6th level abilities again.

Standardizing when you enter and leave these paths makes things a lot smoother.

Mustrum_Ridcully · Apr 23, 2008

Xanaqui said:
Thanks for the attempt, but I failed my comprehension check.

Using [SBOX]sbox[/SBOX] alone seems to do nothing. Using

Code:

[SBOX]sbox inside code[/SBOX]

seems to give me a box, but doesn't hide the contents.

P.S. - I tried these both capitalized and non-capitalized. I get the same issue both ways.

I was stupid and incompetent. *blush*. Damn it, I was using the tag and still managed to get it wrong? *forehead to wall*
Try SBLOCK, not SBOX.
[sblock]
Testing testing testing
[/sblock]

RefinedBean · Apr 23, 2008

Really, people? Arguing about flavor text? REALLY?

Kensai, Weaponmaster, who cares? Maybe the word Kensai mean "weapon specialist" in your race's native tongue, or one of your learned languages, or even Common. Or just change the name. There. Done.

Flavor text isn't meant to be limiting, but to give a basis for expansion. Look at the rules, not the flavor, then decide how you can work those rules into a character concept that fits your DM's game.

Michele Carter · Apr 23, 2008

1) There are over 30 paragon paths in the PH.

2) My paladin took a multiclass cleric feat so she could qualify for a cleric paragon path.

Dausuul · Apr 23, 2008

The_Fan said:
Give it time. If it becomes common enough usage, it becomes English.

And when it does, I will concede the point. Till then, it's Japanese. And I don't see it achieving "common usage" status any time soon.

RefinedBean said:
Really, people? Arguing about flavor text? REALLY?

Kensai, Weaponmaster, who cares? Maybe the word Kensai mean "weapon specialist" in your race's native tongue, or one of your learned languages, or even Common. Or just change the name. There. Done.

Flavor text isn't meant to be limiting, but to give a basis for expansion. Look at the rules, not the flavor, then decide how you can work those rules into a character concept that fits your DM's game.

So we're supposed to have pages and pages of reflavoring text that we pass out to our players? How is this any better than pages and pages of house rules?

CubeKnight · Apr 23, 2008

WotC_Miko said:
1) There are over 30 paragon paths in the PH.

2) My paladin took a multiclass cleric feat so she could qualify for a cleric paragon path.

*sniff* You make me a happy, happy man.

Jack99 · Apr 23, 2008

WotC_Miko said:
1) There are over 30 paragon paths in the PH.

2) My paladin took a multiclass cleric feat so she could qualify for a cleric paragon path.

Thanks for confirming that there is indeed multi-classing before and outside the Paragon Paths.

Voss · Apr 23, 2008

DandD said:
A gaming group will have better communication than any message board on the world by virtue of people being together, playing together and facing each another face to face, and having their own prefered atmosphere they like. Background lore is what everybody agrees to in advance, and changes to how they want it for their style.

In 22 years of gaming, I have never sat down in advance and agreed on what the background 'lore' was. The DM was either running something out of a book, or had his own setting. It was never, ever a 'group setting' where various people sprayed their preferences across the landscape in order to mark territory or force a style on the rest of the group.

And I still don't see how conflicting 'preferred atmospheres' magically resolve themselves- someone is still going to have cave and accept things they don't want, or accept they can't have the things they do want.

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