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Training the peaceful villagers. It's an old trope. Seven Samurai. Army of Darkness. The Three Amigos. You've seen it before. The brave, capable hero teaches the quivering, cowardly farmers how to fight those nasty banditos that keep takin their wimmins. Have you done this in a campaign...

Of course, it doesn't have to be banditos either. Could be zombies, giants, treants, werewolves, whatevs.

Training the peaceful villagers. It's an old trope. Seven Samurai. Army of Darkness. The Three Amigos. You've seen it before. The brave, capable hero teaches the quivering, cowardly farmers how to fight those nasty banditos that keep takin their wimmins. Have you done this in a campaign...

around the wolrd in 80 days starts with a gentlemanly bet in a 19th century-style adventure guild, doesn't it?

here's a dry, scholarly approach to medieval guilds if you value historical accuracy in a campaign. Mostly it seems to apply to craft guilds, so take it for what it's worth. Guilds A very small sample of highlights - Services Performed by Guilds Guilds performed other services for their...

Love you uncle gary. Kiss a Valkyrie for me.

If you're inclined to a more humorous approach to your setting, you could treat your guild like a modern union. There's a lot of satire to be mined out of this. What happens to non-guild adventurers? What happens when the guild goes on strike? What happens if the king decides he doesn't like...

There you go again amending your own definition after the fact to suit your agument. Striker abilities in 4E run out of uses as well (per encounter abilities, per session abilities), that doesn't prevent them from being considered striker abilities. Stop equivocating, it's disgusting. Besides...

Actually you misspoke by saying sneak attack was the only way to do lots of damage in 3E. That was your initial definition of a striker mechanic, which you later amended once you were proven hilariously wrong. Even if we discard that initial careless definition, lots of abilities in 3E can be...

I have some ideas "elite" quests - let them know that certain jobs have a higher risk/reward ahead of time - of course, sometimes they don't have the luxury of knowing how risky a quest may be, and sometimes intel is downright wrong. A gather information check may apply. Tiered objectives -...

You're equivocating harder than I've ever seen anyone equivocate. Initially you defined a striker ability as the ability to do lots of damage and stated that sneak attack was the only example of this... then you state that, because it has limitations (5/day) smite evil isn't a striker...

I know I said I was done, but one last thing - wasn't smite evil in 3E? Smite evil is "a striker ability." It kind of seems like 3E had way, way more than one striker mechanic, anyway... Magic missile?

Yeah, this is true. At the end of the day, we live in a great time where everybody in this argument has a system to suit their preferences. And with that, I extract myself....

I refer you a few posts back where I included the caveat "subject to GM approval." I know there are GMs out there who won't allow it, that's not what i'm talking about. You CAN do it, even if you MAY not. Off topic, but if you're not houseruling/homebrewing at all, you're doing it wrong, in my...

A role is not a class feature, it's a job, or a purpose. A player should define his character's role in and out of combat. Whether or not the class he chose best suits that role is one thing, but dammit, if you want to try to be a cleric striker or a rogue defender it should be common sense...

Yes, I knew you were talking about the system rules. No, there's nothing wrong with assuming anyone can homebrew, because literally anyone can, and in every system I've ever played they encouraged it in the source material. Or so I thought, at least. I guess the reason I bring it up is...

Of course I could have. I can build anything I want, if the DM allows it. Options in a good role playing game aren't near infinite, they are infinite.* Again, is there anything wrong with this? I don't see the logic in this line of reasoning at all. Isn't homebrewing still encouraged? Aren't...

That sounds great to me. Are you implying that there's something wrong with having lots of options? I love all the class archetypal variant options in Pathfinder. I'm playing a phalanx soldier variant right now. It's great.

... or you could play a game with highly customizeable classes...