Deuce Traveler's Canterbury Tales OOC Thread

[CanadienneBacon]

I want to play the Wife of Bath. She's a nag. Maybe I'll make her a cleric of Yondalla.

Hand Rolls:
14, 13, 11, 7, 9, 13

15, 13, 11, 14, 14, 13

13, 14, 13, 17, 15, 9


I'm leaning toward the last array, but might take the second array. I don't think I like the first array at all.

 

[Dragonwriter]

Upon further thought, I'm strongly considering a mounted combat-oriented Paladin... Just a few questions to go with it...

Would it be alright to use the "No Spells" variant Paladin in Complete Warrior? And is the Cavalier PrC from the same book okay?

I'm thinking along the lines of a noble warrior who has taken it as his duty to protect pilgrims on the road... Still in the planning stages, though.

 

[Fenris]

Dragonwriter, do not let this change your thoughts by any means.

I think I am strongly leaning towards a Knight (thus taking the role of The Knight ) Though I still have a few other ideas I may pull out (ranger for instance).

 

[Dragonwriter]

Well, of course, it depends on your Knight's style of fighting... And the Knight class issues the challenges and forces focus onto them, which would allow my little Paladin to charge by on the warhorse and turn them into a nice baddie-on-a-stick.

But also, DT said that characters didn't have to be based on the Tales (beneficial for me, as I haven't read through them as of yet... and Wikipedia can only give so much insight).

I was mainly looking for a martial character (to help my poor rolls as much as possible) and Mounted Combat was the style that I really haven't played around with before. And I've never played a Paladin, so I thought I might give it a try.

It's possible I might choose to instead focus on mounted archery (in which case, I'd be interested in the Halfling Outrider PrC from Complete Warrior), but I'm not sure as of yet.

 

[Fenris]

Well, knights, like paladins, get pretty good at mounted combat, even if they don't try to.

So it would be very cool to see us BOTH out there shish-kabobing bad guys in tandem

 

[Dragonwriter]

Some of their bonus feats can go that way, yeah. I can see the meat-grinder now...

 

[HolyMan]

So this means a caster for me very kool

I will be playing Professor Reginal Smiley, based on the Cracthet character from Sleepy Hollow.

A scientist/sorcerer I need to look into the 14th century see where they were techno wise should be fun

HM

 

[Salthorae]

I'm thinking about a Swashbuckler/Bard/Duelist (if we get high enough in this game)... not an actual Tales character

 

[Deuce Traveler]

I still have dice I bought 10 years ago.

CanadienneBacon, I love it. The nag hero.

HolyMan, The Renaissance was kicking in around then. Leonardo and his odd machines of war, anyone? Gunpowder was also beginning to see wider use. Not so much that the knights were yet endangered, though.

 

[Salthorae]

So this means a caster for me very kool

I will be playing Professor Reginal Smiley, based on the Cracthet character from Sleepy Hollow.

A scientist/sorcerer I need to look into the 14th century see where they were techno wise should be fun

HM

Holyman - An interesting look at Medieval "science" can be found in a book called "The Last Sorcerers". It talks about scientific rationale's the eventually lead to the scientific method and it deals with the alchemist of that age right on the cusp between alchemy/sorcerery and science.

Looks like we already have a couple of Knight characters, but I like the idea of a finesse fighter as I've never played one before... I think I'm going to start with Bard for skill points and multi to Swashbuckler later