Destiny's Tears OOC Thread- Prologue: A Jewel in the Shadow

[Brother Shatterstone]

Well, you do lose a bunch of those abilities if you wear heavier than light armour, so I'm pretty sure they'll stay lightly armoured.

True very true. I could only think of one monk ability that would work which isn't enough to break up the mostly fighter/ranger combo.

 

[Rystil Arden]

You only need one for a solo game...



Okay... I'm going home on vacation from mid June to late June... (2 weeks) Last time I went home, which was closer to three years, I had trouble finding a PC with the Internet then and I suspect I'll have the same trouble this time... (Though admittedly, last time I was home I just got pissy cause I couldn't update my fantasy baseball... This time it will also be PbP games.)

Cool, where's home for you?

As for the Amazon, I couldn't remember all of it, and I was pretty close to assigning a little bit of Monk stuff at the end, so I could also see an Amazon "Combat Style" like the Ranger where you switch out Superior Weapon Finesse, Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, and Combat Reflexes for a bit of Monk powers.

 

[Rystil Arden]

True very true. I could only think of one monk ability that would work which isn't enough to break up the mostly fighter/ranger combo.

Nope, not a fighter ranger combo. Its a rogue ranger combo with the UA variant where you trade SA for feats

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Cool, where's home for you?

Kansas City, Mo.

As for the Amazon, I couldn't remember all of it, and I was pretty close to assigning a little bit of Monk stuff at the end...

Well, the Wisdom to AC is the big one I was talking about and maybe the Monk's most powerful ability... So what would that cost someone?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Nope, not a fighter ranger combo. Its a rogue ranger combo with the UA variant where you trade SA for feats

Ahhh, I missed the trap finding ability the first time though. And shouldn't she have 8 + Int skill points then? (or did she lose them in the tweaking?)

 

[Rystil Arden]

Kansas City, Mo.

But...I thought "Everything's up to date in Kansas City. They've gone about as fer as they can go." Maybe that's just in the musical Oklahoma though

Well, the Wisdom to AC is the big one I was talking about and maybe the Monk's most powerful ability... So what would that cost someone?

Oh, that's not going to happen any time soon

Amazons in Greek depictions are usually depicted with armour and golden shields (for the record: when I was in Athens, and other parts of Greece, I saw a bunch of statues and vases and such, plus there was a pretty cool sarcophagus in Naples when I wen there).

If you want to play an Amazon wearing a dress, you can definitely do it with Amazon/Votress

 

[Rystil Arden]

Ahhh, I missed the trap finding ability the first time though. And shouldn't she have 8 + Int skill points then? (or did she lose them in the tweaking?)

They don't have the Trapfinding ability. Or the 8 + Int Skill Points. Some of the classes lose some stuff to get other stuff. Check out the Avenger: its a Paladin/Ranger but it doesn't have a single spell.

Actually a lot of my /Rogue gestalts don't have any Trapfinding or don't have SA, mainly because I can see so many faces of the Rogue other than the one the PH forces on the class. Would you believe that the Nymph class began its life in infancy as one of my Rogue/Druid variants?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

But...I thought "Everything's up to date in Kansas City.

Except in my family... I’ll probably be making daily trips to the local library… (hope they have word to check my posts with.)

Oh, that's not going to happen any time soon

Fine be a meanie... out:

Amazons in Greek depictions are usually depicted with armour and golden shields...

And only one...

but true enough.

If you want to play an Amazon wearing a dress, you can definitely do it with Amazon/Votress

I already have a nymph running around in a barmaid’s outfit so I will take the armored approach, if I go Amazon.

Hmmm, I can't chose. How about seeing the Runemaiden?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

They don't have the Trapfinding ability. Or the 8 + Int Skill Points. Some of the classes lose some stuff to get other stuff. Check out the Avenger: its a Paladin/Ranger but it doesn't have a single spell.

Oh thanks for pointing out another cool class...

Would you believe that the Nymph class began its life in infancy as one of my Rogue/Druid variants?

Yeah, what else could it have been? All good saves in all and its not combative enough to warrant the ranger class.

Oh got anything cool in a barbarian?

 

[Rystil Arden]

And only one...

You know, they actually usually aren't depicted that way from the original Greek. In fact, I've never seen them in the source material without two, and often one is exposed above the armour (or clothes, if not warring), the ancient Greek version of the chainmail bikini I guess...The depictions, and the fact that the translation of the word Amazon (= "Without Breasts/Pap") is the only reason people even made up the surgery theory, led some scholars to believe that the word Amazon refers to the fact that the daughters were not breast-fed and the mothers did not breast-feed (and thus neither gain the softness and femininity attached to the nurturing pap) rather than that they surgically removed one of them to make archery easier.

Not that the surgery never occurred throughout history. There was an ancient African empire with an elite cadre of female warriors (all of whom were wives of the king too) who performed such a surgery.