• Ooops@feddit.org
    22·
    3 days ago

    smited

    Paladins know enough about their favorite activity to know that this is not a word.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      My favorite character I’ve played was a Paladin, but I went in not wanting to RP the typical purely good Paladin. He was a bit of a narcissist, but he helped people to maintain his image and status. It was an interesting spin on the lawful good architype. He did good, it just happened to be for selfish reasons usually.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        1·
        2 days ago

        Per the rules that sounds more like lawful neutral as intentions and ethical understandings of the world as well as actions matter for alignment but these discussions always take up more time than they’re worth and is a great example of why characters shouldn’t have alignments.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, I always like to play loose with alignment. It doesn’t really make sense. Treating them as hard rules just ends up with worse role play. No one in the real world is always good, or lawful, or whatever. Also, “evil” people often think they’re doing good. It’s more of just guidelines in my opinion than actual rules.

          In philosophy there’s an argument about if doing good just to gain something is actually good. Someone who donates to charity to rehabilitate their image, for example. There are arguments for either side, whether the effect or the intent is more important. If there’s that discussion in philosophy than the strict alignment has to be flawed.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Lol. I guess he was somewhat similar. He didn’t kill people though. He was the only survivor of what should have been a TPK. One member of the party did something stupid and summoned a hoard of enemies to us. We were totally surrounded with no hope of winning the fight, so he summons a steed and fled. He tried to grab people but failed, so he ended up as the only survivor. I felt bad for that.

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
    91·
    3 days ago

    I do so love my magic tanks. I played sorcerers and wizards for like a decade before finally deciding to try a paladin, and oh good Lord was it fun being able to actually just slap a mfer

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      I played a front line sorcerer once. On his father’s deathbed, he swore to protect their home town as a member of the town guard.

      First session, home town is destroyed by a dragon.

      The whole rest of the campaign he was fueled by failure, rage, and revenge. Didn’t make sense as a front liner but it didn’t matter.

      • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days ago

        I had a front line wizard in The Dark Eye. Dude had trash spell stats but high strength, lots of points in throwing weapons and an indestructible crystal ball that he could summon back to his hand. Which counted as a magic weapon because, well, it’s enchanted.

        And he still had access to various divination spells. Not reliably but still.

        Playing a shit spellcaster can be a lot of fun.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I think Wizard is my favorite class, because I like having options. My favorite character was a Paladin though. It’s fun still having some spells but not having to worry about it much. You’re mostly just hitting people.

  • Siethron@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    Ah yes. The Jack of all trades master of none approach. Well I guess we’re the masters of smiting

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      4·
      3 days ago

      The full saying is “Jack of all trades but master of none is oftentimes better than a master of one”

      In DnD it’s certainly true, it’s called versatility and the funny thing about paladins is they’re still a master of burst damage that also comes with being a master of burst healing.

      There’s only one more busted class and it’s called a cleric who is, surprise surprise, also a frontline caster.

      • asqapro@reddthat.com
        7·
        3 days ago

        It’s silly, but it bothers me when people claim recent revisions to sayings are actually the “complete” forms of sayings. Here’s a great write up of the history of the phrase “Jack of all trades”: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/508907

        The end of the comment has a summary of the revisions over time, and the “ofttimes better than master of one” first appeared in 2007.

        • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          2 days ago

          Same with “the customer is always right” having “in matters of taste” added to it as the alleged full version around the same period.

          Not only is it wrong, it ignores the entire narrative that led up to the original saying. Retailers asked their front-line staff to tolerate customers’s unreasonable behavior to increase sales. That’s it. The revision shifts the blame to the customers, who should be civil regardless, but would be more likely to be so if acting otherwise didn’t have few consequences and the possibility of greater material gain.

          /rant