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<blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 290727" data-attributes="member: 96">Has it occurred to the FR authors that there just might be too much of a good thing going on here?I mean...having one guy who's the chosen of a god, that's pretty cool. It's special.Even having each god with a chosen is fine.&nbsp; It's still something unique and special to be chosen by that god.But it seems like 'Chosen of' gets tacked on to everybody and their dog in the FR. Especially 'Chosen of Mystra'. She doesn't seem very choosy. I mean, of the powerful wizards &amp; sorcerers (level 15+) in the FRCS, more than half of them (counting Halaster, now) are Chosen of Mystra.It's no longer special. It's cliché. It doesn't add anything to the character - it seems like it's turned into a set of abilities that gets tacked on to already-powerful characters so they can be even 'kewler'. It might as well be a PrC.Do people running FR use this 'Chosen of' stuff in their games? Is it something that PCs can aspire to, or is it just the 3e version of 'these NPCs are far cooler than you, so they can break the rules'?I'm struggling with it, and currently the concept as it stands leaves me flat. Can anyone tell me how they've made it work well?J</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drnuncheon, post: 290727, member: 96"] Has it occurred to the FR authors that there just might be too much of a good thing going on here? I mean...having one guy who's the chosen of a god, that's pretty cool. It's special. Even having each god with a chosen is fine. It's still something unique and special to be chosen by [i]that god[/i]. But it seems like 'Chosen of' gets tacked on to everybody and their [i]dog[/i] in the FR. Especially 'Chosen of Mystra'. She doesn't seem very choosy. I mean, of the powerful wizards & sorcerers (level 15+) in the FRCS, more than half of them (counting Halaster, now) are Chosen of Mystra. It's no longer special. It's cliché. It doesn't add anything to the character - it seems like it's turned into a set of abilities that gets tacked on to already-powerful characters so they can be even 'kewler'. It might as well be a PrC. Do people running FR use this 'Chosen of' stuff in their games? Is it something that PCs can aspire to, or is it just the 3e version of 'these NPCs are far cooler than you, so they can break the rules'? I'm struggling with it, and currently the concept as it stands leaves me flat. Can anyone tell me how they've made it work well? J [/QUOTE]

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