"Get friendly and stay friendly with your party's cleric, druid, or paladin..."
So urgeth the sage advice of the latest "Swashbucklers With Class" article at WotC's site. Uncommonly insightful advice, eh? -- make friends with your fellow adventurer. That idea is so totally wacky and waaaaay out there that Skippy the Writer has to suggest the same thing in articles about the hexblade, scout, samurai, monk, paladin, ranger, barbarian, rogue and fighter classes. (The hexblade and a few others, however, need not be so friendly.)
I'm glad someone suggested that. After all, the unspoken assumption otherwise is to ignore or antagonize your party's claric, druid or paladin. I can't imagine how many PC relations have been saved by the one bit of esoteric advice.
"Dude, you are such a total whacked-out sonuva--"
"Hey! I'm party cleric."
"Oh. Sheesh. I had no idea. (mumble) ... I'm sorry. ... Can we still, uh ... be friends?"
Amen!
Anyway, just be sure that when you peruse WotC's most excellent supplemental material, you pay very close attention to details like this. Even if it seems like it would be frippin' obvious to your grandmother's half-blind shih-tzu, you should read the text twice or thrice to ensure it locks in your brain.
So urgeth the sage advice of the latest "Swashbucklers With Class" article at WotC's site. Uncommonly insightful advice, eh? -- make friends with your fellow adventurer. That idea is so totally wacky and waaaaay out there that Skippy the Writer has to suggest the same thing in articles about the hexblade, scout, samurai, monk, paladin, ranger, barbarian, rogue and fighter classes. (The hexblade and a few others, however, need not be so friendly.)
I'm glad someone suggested that. After all, the unspoken assumption otherwise is to ignore or antagonize your party's claric, druid or paladin. I can't imagine how many PC relations have been saved by the one bit of esoteric advice.
"Dude, you are such a total whacked-out sonuva--"
"Hey! I'm party cleric."
"Oh. Sheesh. I had no idea. (mumble) ... I'm sorry. ... Can we still, uh ... be friends?"
Amen!
Anyway, just be sure that when you peruse WotC's most excellent supplemental material, you pay very close attention to details like this. Even if it seems like it would be frippin' obvious to your grandmother's half-blind shih-tzu, you should read the text twice or thrice to ensure it locks in your brain.