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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8119134" data-attributes="member: 29398">It's the corresponding penalty to cancel out all the benefits the class gets.  In that part, philosophically I like it, but I won't dispute for a second that the implementation could have been much better done.Funny - and also oddly apropos to topic - with the very first character I ever played (the heavy-Ranger I referenced once or twice upthread) I-as-player decided he came from a land and culture that hated - or more correctly was scared to death of - magic and those who used it.  He was rolled up as if from the DM's game-world but we massaged his background such that he was a transplant from my still-in-development setting; and as a setting element in the area from which he came magic was dangerously unstable - casting any spell risked blowing up someone's house or starting a forest fire.End result: to begin with he kinda played very much like a UA Barbarian, only absent the enforcing mechanics.  As his career went on he slowly came to accept magic here was more reliable than where he'd grown up.This was all several years before UA came out, and at a time where I knew absolutely nothing about the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Heh - round here Henry V wouldn't stand a chance!  It's more like a glorious mix of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and Xena-Hercules, where sometimes the greatest obstacles to success are the rest of your own party. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That sounds more like what they had to do with Lleldorin (the Asturian archer) all the time.  Mando saw Belgarath as a leader and would thus usually follow his orders.  Lleldorin wouldn't know an order if it hit him in the face.The best times IMO are when the whole party are like that! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Sure, little to no actual adventuring gets done; but who cares if we're all rolling on the floor laughing all night!</blockquote>

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