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Martial Controller = Truenamer?
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<blockquote data-quote="BrokeAndDrive" data-source="post: 5249506" data-attributes="member: 89265"><p>Everyone hated the Truenamer for several very good reasons. But I have to admit: I love love looooved the fluff. And the artwork of a guy pointing at a giant and tossing him backwards is hilarious. A shame they wasted it on a <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114269&page=1" target="_blank">class that, with <strong>heavy</strong> amounts of min/maxing, <em>STILL</em> result in an average character at best</a>.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, one day I was thinking about what they did: they spoke these words that caused stuff to happen. It doesn't seem to be magical, it just happened, like a nail being driven into wood with a hammer. Speaking... a purely physical exercise... resulting in buff/debuff/BC... *flash* martial controller! (assuming martial = physical effort powering... powers)</p><p></p><p>It could be argued that the wizard is just waving his hands about, but he's tapping into some unseen force. A Truenamer just says these things and it happens. Granted, you have to say it <em>just right</em>, but then again you have to formally train for years to be able to pop a dragon in the mouth and make it actually hurt. Then again, the Truenamer was listed in the Tome of <u>Magic</u>, but there's nothing wrong with changing things a bit (like making the monk a psionic class).</p><p></p><p>It's difficult to explain in words -- I have this problem <em>all the time</em> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> -- but for some reason this makes sense in my head. Or I'm crazy and this is a completely ridiculous notion.</p><p></p><p>What do you think? Does this make you think "Uh no," or is it the same sort of lunacy that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine" target="_blank">turned heat/fire/explosions into an alternative to the horse and carriage</a>?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrokeAndDrive, post: 5249506, member: 89265"] Everyone hated the Truenamer for several very good reasons. But I have to admit: I love love looooved the fluff. And the artwork of a guy pointing at a giant and tossing him backwards is hilarious. A shame they wasted it on a [url=http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114269&page=1]class that, with [b]heavy[/b] amounts of min/maxing, [i]STILL[/i] result in an average character at best[/url]. Anyway, one day I was thinking about what they did: they spoke these words that caused stuff to happen. It doesn't seem to be magical, it just happened, like a nail being driven into wood with a hammer. Speaking... a purely physical exercise... resulting in buff/debuff/BC... *flash* martial controller! (assuming martial = physical effort powering... powers) It could be argued that the wizard is just waving his hands about, but he's tapping into some unseen force. A Truenamer just says these things and it happens. Granted, you have to say it [i]just right[/i], but then again you have to formally train for years to be able to pop a dragon in the mouth and make it actually hurt. Then again, the Truenamer was listed in the Tome of [u]Magic[/u], but there's nothing wrong with changing things a bit (like making the monk a psionic class). It's difficult to explain in words -- I have this problem [i]all the time[/i] :( -- but for some reason this makes sense in my head. Or I'm crazy and this is a completely ridiculous notion. What do you think? Does this make you think "Uh no," or is it the same sort of lunacy that [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine]turned heat/fire/explosions into an alternative to the horse and carriage[/url]? [/QUOTE]
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