TheCosmicKid
Hero
The tone of the reboot is immaterial. Lucy Lawless is getting a little old for the role, and nobody else is Xena.I . . . I just pictured a grimdark Xena reboot.
Do. Not. Want.
The tone of the reboot is immaterial. Lucy Lawless is getting a little old for the role, and nobody else is Xena.I . . . I just pictured a grimdark Xena reboot.
Do. Not. Want.
This. I love Dark Souls. But it doesn't really have a class system: in D&D terms, you are pretty much always some variation on "fighter", at best dipping into magic or archery. Your bread and butter is going to be a melee weapon of some sort; variety comes from all the stuff about weapons that D&D abstracts away, like reach and arc and recovery time.A little. There are several different viable builds to choose from but at the end of the day there are only two ways to kill things: attacking with your weapon or casting spells.
Different weapons have different move sets that will influence how you use them. For instance using a shield and one handed weapon lets you play pretty safe by turtling, big two handed weapons excel at clearing crowds, long weapons let you keep your distance, etc.
Spells let you be safer by keeping your distance but they are a limited resource. For this reason even spell casters typically spec into being able to use a decent weapon. Spells can also be used to buff yourself, heal or for other utility effects like silencing your movements.
I called out Dark Souls because I prefer this slower and more deliberate style of combat over something like Bayonetta. I feel like I have to think more about my actions with a slower pace instead of just frantically trying to input the buttons for a good combo (but I'm really bad at Platinum style action games so I think it's more that in those games I don't have time to think).
Maybe Xena, as Conan did in his forties, could lead a revolution and rule a kingdom?* Then the reboot could be all politics and so forth, like a low-rent Game of Thrones.The tone of the reboot is immaterial. Lucy Lawless is getting a little old for the role, and nobody else is Xena.
Batman once shot people with guns.
...oh wait.
She was a warlord. A proper warlord. That's even the term they used. Then she met Hercules, reformed, and set off on her adventures. So maybe the D&D warlord should be a background?Maybe Xena, as Conan did in his forties, could lead a revolution and rule a kingdom?* Then the reboot could be all politics and so forth, like a low-rent Game of Thrones.
* like the dictionary definition of a warlord, coincidentally.
Instead, the fact that such items were available, and had market standard prices, trade value, standards of quality, etc, is an enormous part of defining the setting, for us. For my group, if you can't go to a craftsman or merchant and commission or buy a wand or magic sword, and if an ambush by highwaymen will almost certainly never involve defending against such items, we are playing something other than Eberron.
The tone of the reboot is immaterial. Lucy Lawless is getting a little old for the role...