Paragon Path names revealed by Jonathan Tweet!

[bording]

Jonathan Tweet posted on his Gleemax blog yesterday with a list of PCs in his new 4e campaign.

It looks like he updated it today to include the paragon paths that were chose by the 11th level PCs:

http://www.gleemax.com/Comms/Pages/Communities/BlogPost.aspx?blogpostid=51266&pagemode=2&blogid=2076


From that we can see:

wizard/spellstorm mage
fighter/iron vanguard
ranger/battle archer
warlord/battle captain
paladin/astral weapon

 

[Jack99]

Despite apparently being a 4e fanboy, those names leave me quite cold. But so did most of the names of prestige classes in 3e, so not really a big deal.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Yeah, colour my un-moved too. It's all a bit Power Rangers, at least superficially. Of course, the actual classes could be fascinating, but the names, oy vey. Why not just Vanguard for the Iron Vanguard? Also, Astral Weapon, is he a weapon or does he have an Astral Weapon? I'm confused, and I'm guessing it's actually the latter.

 

[TerraDave]

I posted this earlier in another thread...but he didn't have all the names! Sneaky bstrd.

Oh, and I think the names are fine.

Edit: does this mean that all paragon charecters have a prestige class paragon path?

 

[Fobok]

I'm guessing I'll dislike the Paragon Paths and Epic Destinies in the core books just lie I dislike the prestige classes in 3 and 3.5 Core Books. My favourite prestige classes came from setting-specific books, like FRCS and Magic of Faerun.

 

[Exen Trik]

Sounds like extensions of the class "build" options. I expect at best a lot of renaming or just plain ignoring of these terms in play, regardless of how significant the mechanics are.

 

[Mouseferatu]

As for "Iron Vanguard" vs. "Vanguard," the answer's simple. Paragon paths, like PrCs in prior editions, are meant to represent specializations. "Vanguard" is way too general a term (to say nothing of the fact that using it now means the term is unusable for any other related or similar paths later).

I think it's vital for paragon paths to have names that are unique and unmistakable.

That said, while I'm fine with some of the names, I do agree that "battle archer" and "astral weapon" could use a bit of tweaking.

 

[CleverNickName]

I admit it...when I first read the title of this thread, I thought, "New names, eh? I bet they are lame." Lo, I was only half right.

In my humble opinion:

Clearly the ranger has the best paragon path name. And clearly, the paladin has the worst. Everything else falls in the middle.

 

[DandD]

So, do you automatically get a paragon path/are forced to take one, or could you stay a fighter the whole time? How does the new "prestige class"-system work in D&D 4th edition?

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Neat. I like the names. Particularly "Astral Weapon of..." though I can certainly see how it's confusing. (f'rex, I thought the name was more of a title, figuratively referring to the character as Athena's astral weapon, a divine agent of sorts.)