Ashtagon
2013-02-21, 05:21 PM
Class build challenge.
This is actually two class build challenges, but both are lacking in functional ways to play them in D&D.
The first is essentially a "spell-less bard". How do you create a party face / entertainer / loquateur, without resorting to magic-using classes? Equally, note that this guy, while he may well be able to buff his allies, is not himself a strong combatant by any stretch of the imagination. This class should also be a viable aristocrat base, for certain aristocrat concepts.
The final class must look at feel like a "face", without resorting to anything that looks or feels like magic.
The second half of the challenge is to create a "brains" class. This guy does for Intelligence what the "face" does for Charisma. Again, he is not a front-line combatant. Role-playing concepts that are covered by this would include artisans, "heroic" merchants, scholars, certain aristocrat concepts. Basically, being well-educated is his power source.
These two concepts could be made as two separate paths on a single class, or as two distinct classes.
Note that common spell use is right out for these concepts. Incarnum also has too much of a magical feel, as does psionics.
It is conceivable that one of more Tome of Battle disciplines could be created to cover these character concepts. However, this will almost certainly require a new base class to be created in addition, as the three base classes in ToM are entirely too martial in their core structure to work for the central character concepts being built in this challenge.
Edit: Classes must aim for tier 3.
This is actually two class build challenges, but both are lacking in functional ways to play them in D&D.
The first is essentially a "spell-less bard". How do you create a party face / entertainer / loquateur, without resorting to magic-using classes? Equally, note that this guy, while he may well be able to buff his allies, is not himself a strong combatant by any stretch of the imagination. This class should also be a viable aristocrat base, for certain aristocrat concepts.
The final class must look at feel like a "face", without resorting to anything that looks or feels like magic.
The second half of the challenge is to create a "brains" class. This guy does for Intelligence what the "face" does for Charisma. Again, he is not a front-line combatant. Role-playing concepts that are covered by this would include artisans, "heroic" merchants, scholars, certain aristocrat concepts. Basically, being well-educated is his power source.
These two concepts could be made as two separate paths on a single class, or as two distinct classes.
Note that common spell use is right out for these concepts. Incarnum also has too much of a magical feel, as does psionics.
It is conceivable that one of more Tome of Battle disciplines could be created to cover these character concepts. However, this will almost certainly require a new base class to be created in addition, as the three base classes in ToM are entirely too martial in their core structure to work for the central character concepts being built in this challenge.
Edit: Classes must aim for tier 3.