Reskinning Class Fluff

[Garthanos]

I wanted to have rune magic IMC but couldn't be bothered creating a class that couldn't be used in the Character Builder.

Reading the artificer, I realised how perfectly that suited rune magic. In some ways I like it better as a rune mage than as a by-the-book artificer!

Ahh.... Love it and snag.... Runes modify things already existent, now that to me feels far better than the original skinning.

 

[Primal]

Nice. I love this sort of thing. Shushing indeed

Well, we do practise shushing as much as bookbinding. And, indeed we also study Words of Power from ancient, forbidden tomes. Remember that the next time you're about to misbehave in a library...

Although I'm a "Pathfinder Guy", I have to admit that I love this thread; it demonstrates perfectly how flexible 4E rules are. Regardless of the critique from 3E hard core fans, I think 4E is, sadly, better at making an even wider variety of character concepts than 3E is. Not only that, but I think with careful mechanical choices (powers, feats, multiclassing/hybrid classes, NPCs as monsters etc.) 4E rules literally allow you to create any fantasy character and it would be a better representation than you could do in 3E (e.g. "I still need THREE feats for this version of Aragorn! And I just CAN'T give him levels in Legendary Leader PrC without leaving out Cleave and Great Cleave!").

Anyway, keep the posts coming!

 

[theskyfullofdust]

A friend of mine is playing an interesting reskin of a Wildren, erm, Shaman I think. Can't remember the class, but it is his race that's different:

Essentially he is playing an intelligent swarm of bees that inhabit a mobile bush. Cool.

 

[Garthanos]

A friend of mine is playing an interesting reskin of a Wildren, erm, Shaman I think. Can't remember the class, but it is his race that's different:

Essentially he is playing an intelligent swarm of bees that inhabit a mobile bush. Cool.

Class effects can be cross - attributed to race effects.... the swarm druid is a perfect class/build for the above. (If the player doesn't want to be that druidic ... they could make it a hybrid).

 

[Garthanos]

Class flavor is one thing ... but something I find interesting is re-skinned skills.

Skills or even a particular skill use can be skinned different. For instance intimidate is a fear spell. Arcana used to detect magic can be flavored up with incantations waving around your implement and so on... make things glow with can-trip level magic if you must. Maybe even an intentionally risky use of diplomacy (one likely to befriend or insult) could be skinned as using "the voice". Endurance skill ... can be part of a healing gift and have nothing to do with training.