Feminously Gendered Feline Hivemind Thread

[Rystil Arden]

I keep trying to make one of those, but keep failing.

Just play a straight cleric. They already make powerful warriors

 

[Jdvn1]

I really don't like to do this, as I then feel like I'm exploiting my own social skills when I shouldn't be able to do so. This is the same reason why I tend to play characters with either 16 Int or more (almost always) or 8 or lower (rarely), even when it hurts my character's power: When an intellectual challenge appears, if I solve it and find it really really easy, I have no idea if a 12 Int or 14 Int person would find it easy too because some of the things I think are easy, most people don't and some they do, and I don't know which is which.

Well, yes, but I get the impression OotS describes how people play the game, now how it should be played. Still, a Commoner with a 10 Cha and no ranks in Diplomacy can get along with people.

 

[Jdvn1]

Just play a straight cleric. They already make powerful warriors

Yeah, I tried, but in order to be able to cast the higher level spells, I get a higher Wis, which means my Str and Dex and Con suffer, so I end up taking casting and turning feats and PrCs.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, yes, but I get the impression OotS describes how people play the game, now how it should be played. Still, a Commoner with a 10 Cha and no ranks in Diplomacy can get along with people.

But they don't get along as well as someone with good social skills, or at least they shouldn't under the rules.

Not that I complain when my socially-inept, brooding, chronically-depressed Spryte Magister in Isida's Warping of the Blood accidentally sweet-talked the innkeeper's daughter from the point where she started off Hostile wanting to have her guards beat him up and throw him out of her inn to the point where she gave him a kiss and asked to join the party to protect him. That was funny. His secret was that he talked for like eight paragraphs about his obscure research that he did, then he commented on how the innkeeper's daughter looked like his dead girlfriend--though the dead one was prettier. Works every time!

 

[Jdvn1]

But they don't get along as well as someone with good social skills, or at least they shouldn't under the rules.

Not that I complain when my socially-inept, brooding, chronically-depressed Spryte Magister in Isida's Warping of the Blood accidentally sweet-talked the innkeeper's daughter from the point where she started off Hostile wanting to have her guards beat him up and throw him out of her inn to the point where she gave him a kiss and asked to join the party to protect him. That was funny. His secret was that he talked for like eight paragraphs about his obscure research that he did, then he commented on how the innkeeper's daughter looked like his dead girlfriend--though the dead one was prettier. Works every time!

You don't have to get along as well as people with good social skills, you just need to get along.

Hm, I want to play in one of Isida's games.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yeah, I tried, but in order to be able to cast the higher level spells, I get a higher Wis, which means my Str and Dex and Con suffer, so I end up taking casting and turning feats and PrCs.

My advice for a martial cleric: Ignore Dex and buy super-heavy armour. Now, point buy a 16 Strength, 16 Wisdom, 14 Consitution, 12 Charisma, 10 Dex, 8 Int(assumes 32 PB). Now, focus on the uber-self-buffs. Also, if your GM is foolish enough to allow Complete Divine, you might like Divine Metamagic--Quicken in conjunction with said buffs

 

[Rystil Arden]

You don't have to get along as well as people with good social skills, you just need to get along.

Hm, I want to play in one of Isida's games.

Know any Eberron? Submit a concept for her newly-forming Secret Scion (I'm the Secret Scion, I think, maybe). It looks like a blast (intrigue, mystery, social interaction, fast level advancement, and my Chaotic Good evil death warlock Rayni with +13 to Diplomacy at level 1) Yay!

 

[Jdvn1]

My advice for a martial cleric: Ignore Dex and buy super-heavy armour. Now, point buy a 16 Strength, 16 Wisdom, 14 Consitution, 12 Charisma, 10 Dex, 8 Int(assumes 32 PB). Now, focus on the uber-self-buffs. Also, if your GM is foolish enough to allow Complete Divine, you might like Divine Metamagic--Quicken in conjunction with said buffs

I did end up ignoring Dex, but we used 4d6dl and I wanted to have a good Cha (for turning and Diplomacy, which I think Clerics should have)... and I very rarely play characters with Int's below 13, especially if they're combat oriented.

I had more success with a Druid warrior because I could wild shape into things that had better physical stats, so I also took more Fighter feats with him.

 

[Steve Jung]

Charlarn definitely doesn't follow this. He's got a 12 Str, 14 Dex, 10 Con. But our party was low on front-line fighters, so in he went.

 

[Jdvn1]

Know any Eberron? Submit a concept for her newly-forming Secret Scion (I'm the Secret Scion, I think, maybe). It looks like a blast (intrigue, mystery, social interaction, fast level advancement, and my Chaotic Good evil death warlock Rayni with +13 to Diplomacy at level 1) Yay!

Yes, but I'm still new to it. I'm in a few Eberron games currently, and started to get Eberroned out (I joined a bunch of Eberron games in a row). I'd really like a good homebrew, but I'm a little picky about my PbP games because I like using the books I own.