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Nerfed2Hell
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 21:06:28
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| I adjusted pixies to Tiny size in my campaign... faeries are the Small sized pixie-looking fey. They're also further differentiated in my eyes with pixies having the the bug-like wings and faeries having butterfly wings. |
Some people are like a slinky... not good for much, but when you push them down the stairs, it makes you smile. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 22:08:48
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Originally posted by Nerfed2Hell
I adjusted pixies to Tiny size in my campaign... faeries are the Small sized pixie-looking fey. They're also further differentiated in my eyes with pixies having the the bug-like wings and faeries having butterfly wings.
Butterflies aren't bugs?  |
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Nerfed2Hell
Senior Scribe
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 22:31:14
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| Different kind of bugs... |
Some people are like a slinky... not good for much, but when you push them down the stairs, it makes you smile. |
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see
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 22:43:24
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
That's always bugged me, too. The current conception of faeries is a tiny winged person, often no more than 6 inches tall, if that high. And yet, in D&D, they're always at least a couple feet tall.
Well, AD&D had 1' atomies and squeakers, and 1.5 foot grigs and stwingers. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 23:31:06
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Originally posted by see
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
That's always bugged me, too. The current conception of faeries is a tiny winged person, often no more than 6 inches tall, if that high. And yet, in D&D, they're always at least a couple feet tall.
Well, AD&D had 1' atomies and squeakers, and 1.5 foot grigs and stwingers.
Even that's tall, compared to the modern imagery. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4255 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 00:18:18
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
One class I've never enjoyed playing much is a Cleric. I always thought that (in role-playing) it was too hard for me to preach or what have you to other characters.
From what I recall about Ed's words on the matter, priests of the Realms aren't necessarily required to proselytize. Remember, most people in the Realms worship many gods.
Yes, but how does a church gain hard-core converts/new clerics? |
The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 00:27:07
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Yes, but how does a church gain hard-core converts/new clerics?
From what I understand about the Realms, it's the god that ultimately calls the cleric. We are talking about gods that visit people in their dreams. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3762 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 00:58:32
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| -My favorite character (probably) was a single-class Cleric (He went into some PrCs, sure, but they were still Clerical PrCs). A Morninglord of Lathander. I didn't proselytize too much. I only called the Barbarian in the party a "dirty, unwashed wild-woman" once (and, she was inching in on my territory, attempting to bury a fellow dead party member according to the tenets of *her* deity. Not while *I'm* around...). |
(A Tri-Partite Arcanist Who Has Forgotten More Than Most Will Ever Know) |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4255 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 04:27:59
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Yes, but how does a church gain hard-core converts/new clerics?
From what I understand about the Realms, it's the god that ultimately calls the cleric. We are talking about gods that visit people in their dreams.
Hmmm...very true! 
I don't know, I just never could bring myself to be the spiritual leader of anyone in a game...
Now that Paladin of mine...I thought about playing a version of him in the Forgotten Realms.
In Talanie, as the LEADER of the Orthodox Imperial Church of Haelyn, I saw it as his duty to be a repressive and unyielding icon of religious fervor! In fact, when I invaded the Goblin Kingdom of Thurazor, the doctrine was: "Goblins! You have been defeated in battle...you can either convert willingly to the teachings of the Lord Haelyn, as properly taught by us, or you can have your eternal soul saved in a Rite of Purification!" This particular "Rite" was decapitation by a Blessed Headsman's Axe and the body burned in "Holy" fire so that the then cleansed soul could be taken to the proper place.
I was stretching it awfully thin with this guy on the Lawful Good slope that goes straight to Lawful Evil...but in character he really thought he was doing the right thing.
Where would such a Paladin belong in the Realms? |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3762 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 04:55:06
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Where would such a Paladin belong in the Realms?
-Elturgard. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4255 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 05:46:37
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Originally posted by Dagnirion
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Where would such a Paladin belong in the Realms?
-Elturgard.
Where in 3.5e Realms.  |
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ranger_of_the_unicorn_run
Learned Scribe
USA
292 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 14:17:29
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Where would such a Paladin belong in the Realms?
Well, Amn seems to get a little holier-than-thou at times. |
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 14:31:08
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Originally posted by ranger_of_the_unicorn_run
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Where would such a Paladin belong in the Realms?
Well, Amn seems to get a little holier-than-thou at times.
Just one of the many reasons that my PC can't go to Amn anymore . And I would have chosen assassin but someone told me not to... |
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He also started a new Trilogy with Black Prism, which may even surpass the Night Angel Trilogy in its awesomeness.
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3762 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 15:51:37
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
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Originally posted by Dagnirion
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Where would such a Paladin belong in the Realms?
-Elturgard.
Where in 3.5e Realms.
-Elversuit. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2008 : 17:58:44
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Where would such a Paladin belong in the Realms?
In my opinion? An institution for the mentally incapacitated. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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ErskineF
Learned Scribe
USA
330 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2008 : 18:42:18
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I like to be able to sneak up on stuff, so I favor Rogue, Ranger or Rog/Rgr.
I used to think that single class clerics were under-powered, but after playing a high-level cleric in our last campaign, I've changed my mind. They can be pretty awesome. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4255 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2008 : 19:21:55
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Where would such a Paladin belong in the Realms?
In my opinion? An institution for the mentally incapacitated.
He WAS a bit on the crazy side...he had to be to actually pull it off as such a zealot. |
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Ionik Knight
Learned Scribe
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 15 Dec 2008 : 14:21:08
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I'm a concept based player myself. I'll have some crazy idea that will stick in my skull and I will have to play a PC based on it...whatever the race/class. But if I'm just sitting down and rolling up a one shot--Human Sorcerer. Spells, flexibility, attitude and no spell prep time.
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Fools to right of them,
Jesters to left of them,
Clowns in front of them
Pun'd and parody'd. |
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RRELIN
Acolyte
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Posted - 15 Mar 2009 : 15:06:32
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| Monks do it for me. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 15 Mar 2009 : 16:01:54
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Originally posted by RRELIN
Monks do it for me.
But don't they have to take a vow of celibacy?
"These men have taken a vow of celibacy, like their fathers and their fathers before them." |
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RRELIN
Acolyte
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Posted - 15 Mar 2009 : 16:09:53
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| You obviously don't get out very often nowdays... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 15 Mar 2009 : 17:38:58
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Originally posted by RRELIN
You obviously don't get out very often nowdays...
I'm married. Married men are no longer allowed to have a life. It's one of the bits of fine print in the vows.
And it's perhaps a good thing that my wife doesn't come in here to see comments like that!  |
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RRELIN
Acolyte
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Posted - 15 Mar 2009 : 18:00:00
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| Aren't you supposed to read the fine print before you commit the act? |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 15 Mar 2009 : 18:52:03
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Originally posted by RRELIN
Aren't you supposed to read the fine print before you commit the act?
Now you tell me! |
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RRELIN
Acolyte
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Posted - 15 Mar 2009 : 19:18:17
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| Of course it's always after the fact. How do you think women snare their prey? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 16 Mar 2009 : 03:35:35
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It's funny: When playing as a teenager, I was all about the fighter/thief- these days, I love me some paladin-ness, though.
Having said that, from a mechanical POV, they're totally drawers. To play what I think of as a 'real' Paladin, you need to hit up a PrC after 5th level. Unless you just LOVE curing disease. |
How can life be so bountiful, providing such sublime rewards for mediocrity? -Umberto Ecco |
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Arion Elenim
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 16 Mar 2009 : 05:12:37
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| I feel you, Knight of the Gate. I've always fancied that changes in a person's world view really affect their character choices (or choice of character for that matter). So much of D&D is escapism, but I think a lot of it allows us to explore parts of our own personalities. |
My latest Realms-based short story, about a bard, a paladin of Lathander and the letter of the law, Debts Repaid. It takes place before the "shattering" and gives the bard Arion a last gasp before he plunges into the present.http://candlekeep.com/campaign/logs/log-debts.htm |
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 16 Mar 2009 : 06:49:16
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| Well said Arion. I guess as a kid who wasn't as rebellious as he wanted to be, that the rogue-ish character appealed to me. Now, as an adult forced to compromise (as we all are) on a daily basis, it's really rewarding to play someone who sees how much easier it would be to compromise, but simply refuses to do so. If I ever get to PC again (How someone who loves playing as much as I do is stuck always DMing, I don't know) I might try a rogue-type again, to see what I think of it now. |
How can life be so bountiful, providing such sublime rewards for mediocrity? -Umberto Ecco |
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Ghost King
Learned Scribe
USA
253 Posts |
Posted - 22 Mar 2009 : 04:32:08
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Druid and Paladin is probably my favorite two classes. Usually they were excluded because of group composition (either people that wanted to desecrate nature or neutral characters usually doing things that a paladin wouldn't stand for).
The few times I got to play one of them it was a blast, but the three classes I usually played were rogue, fighter, and wizard. People liked me more as a wizard or a fighter, because everytime I played a rogue I was so good at the class people in the party usually ended up broke and my rogue usually ended up flithy rich. |
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