Doc Eldritch
First Post
The idea of themes as presented in Dark Sun is a great one. Some good flavor, and nice ideas, and I'm hoping we'll see it extended into more generic themes for other worlds as well.
Something I had thought of when reading over them, was that the concept of themes could also work very well as a sort of "mini paragon path". Perhaps by making some new themes, only available at level 11+. The initial theme would give you a small benefit and a utility power, with the options of some higher level utility and attack powers that you could swap out.
It might be strong (in fact I'm sure it would be), but if everyone was able to take a theme, I don't think it would be unbalanced.
I'm envisioning this to cover group memberships and the like, things that might not really "need" a full paragon path treatment! Aside from increasing the power level slightly, do folks see any initial bad ideas about this? I'm thinking it might work especially well with the Essentials classes, which are a bit more effort to swap their paragon paths out with standard ones (because of the way they are built).
Something I had thought of when reading over them, was that the concept of themes could also work very well as a sort of "mini paragon path". Perhaps by making some new themes, only available at level 11+. The initial theme would give you a small benefit and a utility power, with the options of some higher level utility and attack powers that you could swap out.
It might be strong (in fact I'm sure it would be), but if everyone was able to take a theme, I don't think it would be unbalanced.
I'm envisioning this to cover group memberships and the like, things that might not really "need" a full paragon path treatment! Aside from increasing the power level slightly, do folks see any initial bad ideas about this? I'm thinking it might work especially well with the Essentials classes, which are a bit more effort to swap their paragon paths out with standard ones (because of the way they are built).
Last edited:
