Excerpt: Paragon paths (merged)

[DandD]

That rather seems to be a particular problem with your group, where they either are purposefully obnoxious, or a little bit mentally challenged, or the problem is just exagerated out and none of this apply. I mean, how hard can it be to say: "Dudes and dudettes, I'm playing a Kensei, but I'm going to call it the Weapon Master because you don't like the naming." And then, everybody is just: "Yeah, fine, that's good, thanks."
That's really only making an elephant out of a mice.

 

[Kesh]

I've played with enough gamers to know you're glossing over a major detail-
by the fifth time he complains that he can't find the 'weapon master' in the book, you're going to be annoyed enough that you're going to snap and say fine, write 'Kensai' down on your rastafraggling character sheet.

If your players are being that much of a pain, either flat-out tell them that it's becoming a problem, or get another player. If you just "snap and say fine," it sounds like you're not having fun and the player is being pedantic.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Not really, no. It is, in fact, right.

Dictionaries do not define language. They *describe* it. A word means what most people use it to mean, no more, no less. Language is fluid, and English? English is a superheated gas.

Me has BA in englush. Me noes this stuph.

English:
"It not only borrows words from other languages; it has chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."

(I can't attribute this quote)

 

[Thaumaturge]

A word means what most people use it to mean, no more, no less. Language is fluid, and English? English is a superheated gas.

This is crazy talk. If we start thinking like this, "their" will become the correct English singular possessive. This must not be allowed.

Ever.

Seriously.

/shudder.



Thaumaturge.

 

[Wormwood]

If your players are being that much of a pain, either flat-out tell them that it's becoming a problem, or get another player. If you just "snap and say fine," it sounds like you're not having fun and the player is being pedantic.

The player is being obtuse. I'd say the DM is being pedantic.

 

[Voss]

Proving it wasn't that big a deal in the first place.

Only if the best approach to dealing with concerns is to dismiss them entirely if you don't share them.

 

[BASHMAN]

I just hope we get some powers to go along with those power cards are I'm going to be really disappointed

Each pack retails for $3.95 comes with 12 randomly assorted power cards:
6 at will
4 per encounter and
2 daily abilities.

Collect them all!

 

[Lacyon]

So we're supposed to have pages and pages of reflavoring text that we pass out to our players? How is this any better than pages and pages of house rules?

In this case, it's one word. That's a lot better than pages and pages of houserules.

 

[TPK]

Paragon Paths look pretty nice all in all, but one thing has me worried.

Some of these things look sort of multi-classy, like the warpriest that clearly makes a cleric more defender-ish, or that rumoured PP that lets a wizard use a sword as a wand.

You shouldn't have to wait until level 11 to play the character you want. If you were going for a warpriest, what are the odds that you didn't go for some of that stuff much earlier? And does my gish have to fumble around with sword and wand for ten levels?

I suppose you could probably use stopgap measures until you get to 11th, and then retrain to "get back" the feats and power choices you used to cover the gap, but it strikes me as inelegant.

Oh well, we'll know more when that multiclassing excerpt comes out.

PS Does anyone know more about which excerpts to expect?

 

[Cadfan]

There's a fairy tale where this girl is a maid in an old man's house. This old man hates the regular names for things, so he renames them all and insists the girl use them. Eventually his house burns down because the girl tries to convey to him that a spark from the fire has jumped from the fireplace, and is unable to do so in a timely manner due to his arbitrary language constraints.

Its a silly story, but we can take a lesson from it- the essence of an item denoted does not change due to the label we place upon it. Fire burned his house down even though it was named something else, and a Kensai by any other name will still give you a +1 attack bonus.

No doubt the old man took a different lesson- he undoubtedly concluded that if only the entire language was altered to use the words he invented, no language confusion would exist.