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The main theory I've seen is that . Maybe Butcher will become this universe's equivalent of .

I loved the most recent episode. Antony Starr is an excellent actor. The first scene seemed like it was from a horror movie.

Hmm. Not a fan of the art style. And some of the planes looking samey is kind of intrinsic to the Great Wheel. A lot of the planes are very similar.

Strange question: How would you work an ant death spiral into a campaign? The idea popped into my head the other day and I've been trying to develop a workable adventure/encounter. My first idea was pretty simple; a random encounter where a group of giant army ants gets trapped in a death...

Before opening the thread I was debating between Dal Quor and the Shadowfell, before realizing that they're not an "Outer Plane" from the Great Wheel cosmology. My answer has to be Carceri. IME, most of the other Outer Planes are extremely uninspiring. It has the most interesting premise, being...

The Dragon Age 2 line about "boneless women flopping down the street" is one of my favorite from the series.

Yeah. Thinking back on it, I don't think my problem is entirely with the Paladin. It's a combination of factors from early D&D. The European Christian knight that embodies goodness killing savage, tribal subhuman monsters made up of racist tropes about indigenous peoples (human sacrificing...

And? I never said anything about architecture. I was specifically discussing Greek heroes and how the original stories are so far removed from our modern culture that I don't think it's an issue. Additionally, part of the stories of Greek heroes is that they are flawed characters. They're much...

One of the developers hinted that the game might not look like this.

Huh. Not a fan of the trailer. It’s not what I expected it to look like. Hopefully that’s just the trailer’s art style. And the trailer basically says nothing. The character summaries are too short and vague to be interesting or informative and that’s all the trailer was about.

Heracles and other Greek heroes were not real and don’t have any real connection to modern culture. Plus they’re still “divine warriors,” being demigods and all, but Heracles didn’t go around killing heathens in the name of Zeus or anything like that. It’s so far removed from our modern culture...

I don’t see the relevance. The issue is with the trope, not the fact that they are not literally Christian. Dragon Age’s Templars and 40k’s Space Marines aren’t Christian either, but still are obviously based on the image of a Crusader. True. But the type of Paladin art work I was referring to...

Well, I did give an example of a Paladin subclass that doesn’t rub me the wrong way, Oath of Heroism. But it is the outlier, coming from the Ancient Greek setting. I’m not sure what would fix the Paladin for me. That’s why I asked for ideas in the OP. Maybe if their scope was broadened a lot...

Hey everyone. I’m back. I mostly skimmed the thread up to this point and I’m not going to respond to every post. I’m frankly disinterested in most of the alignment tangent. And there’s no point in responding to the people that just came into this thread to mock me or condescendingly tell me I’m...

Dragon Age: Origins had the cleanest, most developed story, IMO, but Dragon Age 2’s gameplay and characters and the focus on Hawke were some of my favorite parts of the series. Overall I didn’t like Inquisition. The character were great, but I didn’t like the changes to combat, the pivot away...

This thread was a mistake and I’m abandoning it for the foreseeable future. I don’t think it has the capacity for the type of discussion I was aiming for. I would prefer if it were closed. Some day I might return to this topic with more research, better citations, and in a different, more...

I’ve certainly seen the (+) be used in similar ways and was told the last time I made a thread of a similar topic that I should have made it a (+) thread. Not that it’s had any effect on this thread. More people are telling me that I’m wrong and Paladins are fine than are giving suggestions to...

But the larger point is that people still think of Paladins as Crusaders. They’re still modeled after them. “Deus Vult” is a meme. While the subclasses have a diversity of oaths/worldviews, the popular original image of Paladins is still the baseline (Xenk and Dame Aylin for example). I think...