Recent content by Dersu

The other meta game aspect of a defender style character is the terrain on which the combat for the campaign is taking place. If you are fighting in freshly hayed fields, then having a tank is less important than having good mobility and range attacks. The more confined the play space, the...

Except in this case, the entire purpose of this thread was to make character that used martial abilities to protect the party without concern for the ability to inflict damage. I think it's perfectly valid to expand upon the initial idea set forth. Maybe the op doesn't realize that barbarians...

I have played a barbarian tank in a previous campaign and I am currently playing a oath of vengeance paladin in the current campaign. First about barbarians. They can be hands down the best traditional tank out there. If you go path of the totem warrior and take all of the bear powers you will...

When you ready an action it is occurring on a turn that is not your own. The sentinel feat drops your speed to 0 for the rest of that turn. The trick to get past a person with sentinel would technically work, but it's usefulness is of dubious value. If you manage to make it past the person with...

I think the one thing the ranger has always had is a sense that they were at home in the wilds. They had a real connection with nature, but less of a "the plants should inherit the earth" druidy kind of way and more of a "people and nature need to understand each other or get out of each other's...

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I am currently playing a paladin in a campaign with friends. I chose the Oath of vengeance as it offers some really unique interactions and options for battlefield control and mobility. The feature on the Vengeance list that doesn't seem to get a lot of attention is Relentless Avenger. At first...