Quote Originally Posted by NeoSeraphi View Post
I personally feel like a tank should be SAD. If you're going to spend your entire build focusing around protecting your allies, you deserve to get cut a little slack. And yeah, Lelouch doesn't really fit that whole Con-based persona, I just think he's a pretty cool guy.

Charisma is a terrible ability score. It does nothing for a warrior except influences Intimidate. Constitution is a much better score to focus on, as it allows the knight to be SAD (which was my goal) and represents the power of a bulky, strong character rather than a strong-willed character. This guy isn't divine, he doesn't draw power from his "force of personality" or anything like that.

Why should you punish an enemy for attacking you? If the enemy attacking you is bad for them, they won't be attacking you, and that's what you want them to do! You want them to attack you, so you make it practically impossible to attack your allies instead. As long as the enemy focuses on you, your allies can mop him up while staying alive, and you have plenty of options for knocking him down a few pegs.

They are definitely needed. If you don't have any active abilities, you just sit around and full attack. It's boring and pointless.

I think it's a perfectly fitting skill. It has absolutely nothing to do with psionics, other than being printed in that book.

It is, in fact.
1 and 2: 'course, but I don't understand why a knight should specialise in constitution specifically, fluff-wise it's no more important than strength. In the case of Lelouch, the example, it doesn't fit either, clearly an INT type. Charisma would be the better fit for the class, even if it's suboptimal from a power-building perspective, or better still, drop the SAD, and be level-based instead.

3 and 4 are related, you definitely can't have a post ToB class dealing full attacks without help, can you? However, one-off abilities aren't the answer, they step on other classes' toes, running around without a concept, and leave the player in doubt about what he's playing. If this is a tank class, and given the existing class features, then retributive attacks are the obvious choice.

5: Not the biggest problem here, but an odd choice nonetheless, and a thri-kreen leap out of the way of canon.

6: No problems here.

Overall, it does an awful lot more than tank and control, and doesn't sacrifice anything to be able to do it. It has good skills and a superb list, d12, full bab, SAD like a mage, does tons of DPS and debuff, is highly mobile, controls the opponent with intimitank abilities and lockdown and buffs his allies at the same time. It's everything at once, and it isn't a bard, so that can't be good.