Ji's topic - Friendly Plotstrike inbound, find cover!

Well okay, I'll make that the standard bet, and your character will need to speak up to bet more.

I said something.

Man . . THIS is one of the major reasons why I left the whole forum thing all together. Passed out for most of the day and it turns out that there's actually posts on this day. Great start! Sorry guys, life's crazy here. Should I back out now while I've done absolutely nothing in the roleplay or just have my guy tag along some? I read the bulk of the OOC posts but skimmed the rest, namely the conversation about people sucking with Clerics. And, if you guys really need a wizard I can keep this character as a backup and roll one up. Must say that I'll be rusty with 'em, as the Wizard from D&D 3.5 left a bad taste in my mouth compared to the Mage I grew up with, XD. Hate preparing spells every day.

That's just it my boy, Wizards don't actually prepare spells anymore. Like I think I told you... the only difference between them and a sorcerer now is their spell selections and their "role".

Though there's more than just wizard, what the party needs is either, a wizard, a druid, or an invoker. All three of those are status ailment AoE specialists.

Reguardless, feel free to keep tagging along man, it's going to move slightly without you, but I would never move without everyone having posted atleast once unless we were doing something as trivial as a game of cards.

You probably did and I forgot. Ignoring combat for a moment here. Purely outside of combat, are Wizards more useful than Sorcerers and would we actually need a real mage at some point? Also, I can't promise I'll be active. Forums are just really, really bad for me.

Technically speaking? Yes. Because wizards get to do the fancy dangly rituals without a feat and start out knowing a few. Rituals be helpful. Not that you need them as a party, of course, but they could be terribly helpful.

How 'bout knowledge skills/abilities, identifying, and stuff like that?

In that respect, both of them had the same chance to take the class skills, I do believe. I think Wizards might get less... athletics type skills.

Hmm. Well, I'll leave that one up to the party and you to decide. Totally willing to make a bookworm sort (even if only in stats) to fill up that role. My worry and focus as a whole is less on combat and more on filling non-combat roles. Though admittedly my sorcerer is statistically all combat based, I'd say. Minus being one of the few people with survival.

... I've never played DnD. But I'm Genre Savvy enough to know the setting of Modern Fantasy. Any chance of joining? Are we still in the Tavern scene?

Uh... define modern fantasy, because that makes me think you think this is modern.

Anyway, yes we're still there, and DnD is always rife with ways to stuck someone new into a group anyway.

Rix, become our Bard! It is your DESTINY!

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Or, you know, any of the other classes.

Why bard? I mean, I know you want rituals, silly Legs, but a wizard can do that. And a wizard also gets to focus on covering the one area the party is sorely lacking in. Then agian, so could an invoker, or druid.

You know, dragons, knights, fair maidens, swords, a lack of a certain mister Thomas Edison. That stuff.

I have yet to memorize the OP (nor have I glanced), but using my Genre Savvyness I will take some guesses as to my question. (I will, in fact, read the OP. I just haven't gotten around to it)

There are three basic core classes: Warrior, Mage, and Rogue. Which are the ones we are lacking in? I quite like to be unique.

Also, as for entering the group, I could just have my guy (or girl, if it favors gender equality) burst through the door or something.

Oh, I just like Bards...


Well, let's see. We have a Barbarian, a Paladin... Wait. What do we have right now? I can't remember.

Er... ... ... any knowledge as to where I can locate the OP?

But anyways, I'm not sure Bard is a good idea... However it is a good suggestion.

Uh, no, actually, there is a very long list of classes, really, though there are four "roles", we're missing the role of "guy who does area of effect stuff and inflicts status ailments"

We have a Warlord, A barbarian, a sorcerer, an a paladin.

Screw the Op it told you nothing.

Hmm... I was thinking that effect and status ailments would come into effect. Barbarian, Warlord, and Paladin all fall into a heavy, tank-like physical class, and Sorcerer falls into Magic. Rogue's deal with all the bonus stuff, so I'll settle for that.

Now, can I get a list of the classes?

Actually, we're talking roles like tank (Paladin), striker (Barbarian), leader (Warlord), and control (Sorcerer?). Rogues are, what? Strikers?

Your genre savvy'ness is going to fail you.

Warlord is actually a healer and master tactician. Barbarian is a guy who hits things really hard, but is easy to take down. Paladin, you got spot on. Sorcerer is a mage, yes, but he's an offensive mage. Rouges are actually just damage dealers like the barbarian, it's just the way they set up their damage dealing.

An actual class list, though? Uh...

Cleric, Fighter, Rouge, wizard, paladin, bard, avenger, invoker, druid, shaman, warden... I'm missing a few but those're a lot of them.

Unfortunately Legs, Sorcerer's are strikers, that's why I insist you guys need a wizard, or someone like one.

Long story short, Objecto, the roles are not where your power comes from, it's what you do with it.

Genre Savvy, y u no activate now?

I like the sound of this Shaman. Can I get a wiki link or a link to some kind of page that details the Shaman Class, the Bard Class, and maybe the Invoker and Warden classes?

No, I could never find you one. WoTC doesn't like that kind of thing.

I can tell you this much, their roles. Shamans are healers. Bards are also healers. Invokers are the AoE status guys, and Wardens are tanks. I can go into details with them like that invokers get their power from the gods, wardens are tanks imbued by the power of the primal world, shamans are tribally, and bards heal with the power of magic, and reversing the strings of fate.

Hmm... it seems Legs was on to something, and I WILL end up with Bard. Go into detail on that, please; do they both heal and inflict status effects? How are they different from Shamans? Shall I even out the gender equality and make my char female?

Okay, well here're the differences now, when we start breaking down past roll...

Bards in former editions were just jack of all trades guys, and this carrys on now. While they're now a "healer" they're less of a healer than every other kind. At the same time, they're atleast competant with assorted magics and a sword. Of course, jack of all trades master of none is in full effect here, you're not exactly going to be the best, at anything. And I won't even go into what Spoony taught me about having a bard be the sole authority on certian kinds of magic. Reguardless, yes they can do a lot, but anyone else would do one part of it better.

Shamans dra their power from the primal earth, and their "gimmick" (for every class in a role has a gimmick) is they get a spirit animal. Honestly... that's it. The animal occupies a space, can be moved around, and offers bonuses to allies that are near it.

Still, man, another repeat. I'm tempted to GMPC a controller for you guys just so you have one.

Crap.

I'd have to be spoony.

What about the 'Dark Magician' type of character (whom I assume is the Druid)? Do we have any of those yet (I enjoy being the 'one of the kind' or 'the first')? Can they inflict status effects?