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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7244926" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Y'know, if the 4e mounted combat rules had been just a bit better, a Centaur might have been pretty easy to work in. </p><p>(Though the easiest way would probably be to give it some cheesy magical power - like they gave the pixie the shrink-your-weapon-but-it-still-does-full-damage trick - to turn into a more humanoid form when being L was inconvenient. At that point, they'd be no more problematic than a mounted-combat-specialized character able to conjure/dismiss his mount.)</p><p></p><p>In the context of 4e, Samurai could be a Background (it's partially hereditary, no?), a Theme, a set of Style Feats, and/or a Paragon Path. Probably mostly 'and' to really do it in elaborate/faithful detail. But you'd load all that up on a fighter, possibly a Slayer, TWF Ranger, or Warlord. As a class it could only have been justified with an 'orientalist' take on the Ki source, then it'd've been an Oriental Abominations type: Fighter-but-better. Because Asian. There was a lot of that in RPGs in the 80s.</p><p></p><p>And, frankly, there's not as much less of that in RPGs as there should be 30 years later.</p><p></p><p> One player I knew did that for like 10 years, from 3.0 through 4e. Fighter. Heavy Armor. Greatsword. Long(composite)Bow. O-Yori, No-Dachi, Dai-kyu. 3e officially letting players describe gear how they wanted was about all that was ever needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7244926, member: 996"] Y'know, if the 4e mounted combat rules had been just a bit better, a Centaur might have been pretty easy to work in. (Though the easiest way would probably be to give it some cheesy magical power - like they gave the pixie the shrink-your-weapon-but-it-still-does-full-damage trick - to turn into a more humanoid form when being L was inconvenient. At that point, they'd be no more problematic than a mounted-combat-specialized character able to conjure/dismiss his mount.) In the context of 4e, Samurai could be a Background (it's partially hereditary, no?), a Theme, a set of Style Feats, and/or a Paragon Path. Probably mostly 'and' to really do it in elaborate/faithful detail. But you'd load all that up on a fighter, possibly a Slayer, TWF Ranger, or Warlord. As a class it could only have been justified with an 'orientalist' take on the Ki source, then it'd've been an Oriental Abominations type: Fighter-but-better. Because Asian. There was a lot of that in RPGs in the 80s. And, frankly, there's not as much less of that in RPGs as there should be 30 years later. One player I knew did that for like 10 years, from 3.0 through 4e. Fighter. Heavy Armor. Greatsword. Long(composite)Bow. O-Yori, No-Dachi, Dai-kyu. 3e officially letting players describe gear how they wanted was about all that was ever needed. [/QUOTE]
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