Nightfall
Sage of the Scarred Lands
Whizbang Dustyboots said:"Want to play a sage? Create a wizard and never memorize any spells. Enjoy!"
Nah I have spells! I just don't feel like using them on people!
Whizbang Dustyboots said:"Want to play a sage? Create a wizard and never memorize any spells. Enjoy!"
Herobizkit said:Oh, and for all you "wacky sage" fans,
It's called an Expert. It's an NPC class. It's got enough guts to be a viable core class. You could even be generous and let them gain spells as a Bard.
I don't know how useful an Expert would be in a dungeon crawl, but with the right skills, he could hold his own for sure.
Whizbang Dustyboots said:So, a swashbuckling rogue would think of trapfinding as "open brasierres with one hand without looking?"
Yes, that is too much to ask. It basically is making a rogue who pretends he's something else but otherwise effectively acts just like a rogue.
Fenes said:You can strip flavor easily.
Fenes said:I don't know about other players, but I can simply decide to not use a class feature I don't want to use. So, if I'd play a ranger as a duelist, I'd have no problem with not using all the nature stuff.
GQuail said:This, along with a similar statement about being a Monk but not using the death strike, seems a bit at odds with the goals of everyone else on this thread. As Whizbang Dustyboots notes, the classes are balanced by their powers, and class balance clearly matters to tou since the Duskblade is "overpowered": so why would an "underpowered" choice be a valid way of doing things? It will jus tinsert the same problem (different power levels of classes) into the game, albeit at different points on the spectrum.
I've wnated to use the Urban Ranger out of UA for policeman, but I'm a b it unsure about the spells. Do I ditch them and up the skills/bonus feats to counter, or do I keep them and note than a D&D fantasy world would have a pile of mundane magic in such roles? At no point would "I just tell the player not to use his spells" enter my head, which one might argue is "rollplayer" of me: but if balance matters to your game, it's just as big a problem to be too weak as to be too strong from the norm.
Fenes said:I was replying to Wayne in that, he talked about "fighting as well as a fighter, casting as well as a wizard".
Fenes said:I consider it unbalanced, and unwelcome, and see no need to make it welcome. A fighter/wizard would serve in a more balanced way.
Fenes said:In my honest opinion, most people who clamor for a fighter/wizard want the 2E bladesigner resurrected, the class that trumps pure fighter and pure wizards alike. I consider that unbalanced.