Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 5823344" data-attributes="member: 3448"><p>I think one useful way to think about themes is in terms of literary (etc.) works with a bunch of characters who would have the same class, but who feel different anyway.&nbsp; So, if you think about The Three Musketeers, all four of the Musketeers would be fighters.&nbsp; But Aramis has either some sort of religious theme or a Don Juan theme, Athos would be either a noble theme or an &quot;old grump&quot; theme, D'Artagnan would have some sort of young gallant theme, and so forth.&nbsp; They're all fighters, but a different mix of additional details.&nbsp; Or Morrus's example of different pirate themed characters.&nbsp; In terms of the samurai example, that actually makes perfect sense to me:&nbsp; you can have the samurai fighter (the iconic &quot;samurai&quot;), you can have a samurai priest (samurai social class and background but became a priest), you can have the samurai rogue (the sort of political samurai who wants to manipulate his enemies and stab them in the back rather than honorably facing them in battle), and so forth.&nbsp; Sure, some combos will be oxymoronic, but those offer interesting quirkiness--a scholar fighter?&nbsp; That sorta defines an unusual character right there.&nbsp; And since you're choosing them, if you don't want to play a scholar fighter or a knight wizard, you don't have to.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Cerebral Paladin, post: 5823344, member: 3448"] I think one useful way to think about themes is in terms of literary (etc.) works with a bunch of characters who would have the same class, but who feel different anyway. So, if you think about The Three Musketeers, all four of the Musketeers would be fighters. But Aramis has either some sort of religious theme or a Don Juan theme, Athos would be either a noble theme or an "old grump" theme, D'Artagnan would have some sort of young gallant theme, and so forth. They're all fighters, but a different mix of additional details. Or Morrus's example of different pirate themed characters. In terms of the samurai example, that actually makes perfect sense to me: you can have the samurai fighter (the iconic "samurai"), you can have a samurai priest (samurai social class and background but became a priest), you can have the samurai rogue (the sort of political samurai who wants to manipulate his enemies and stab them in the back rather than honorably facing them in battle), and so forth. Sure, some combos will be oxymoronic, but those offer interesting quirkiness--a scholar fighter? That sorta defines an unusual character right there. And since you're choosing them, if you don't want to play a scholar fighter or a knight wizard, you don't have to. [/QUOTE]

Verification