Comments | cygna_hime: I can has plotbus? No! Plotbus has ME!

cygna_hime

I can has plotbus? No! Plotbus has ME!

Jan 28, 2008 22:22

One session into this D&D campaign, and my character has already had his emotional strength and support stripped from him completely in the most brutal of possible ways.

This is gonna be funBesides, when I signed up to be a paladin, I did explicitly agree to stand in front of a plotbus. So it's not like it came as a surprise, although I wasn't ( Read more... )

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gehayi January 29 2008, 03:30:28 UTC

How did he lose his emotional strength and support, out of curiosity?

cygna_hime January 29 2008, 03:46:56 UTC

He fell. I don't know how much you know about D&D mechanics, so a brief explanation: a paladin is a paladin of a specific god. From this come various paladinly abilities, but there is also a code of conduct that the paladin must follow. Changing alignment (in the case of this variant, ceasing to be Chaotic Good), knowingly doing evil or lawful things, or grossly violating this code of conduct results in a paladin's fall. This means I lose *all* paladin abilities and spells, and can't gain any paladin levels until and unless I atone appropriately for whatever caused me to fall ( ... )

artyartie January 29 2008, 03:54:29 UTC

Oooh! Sounds like it should be fun, if angsty as hell. Sounds like all my flisters in undergrad doing D&D are having a great time at it - for me, wargaming has to be enough! Though it is fun, bombing the crap out of the US Navy's torpedo boats with my pirate fleet's aircraft carrier. ;)

tigerdreams January 29 2008, 07:54:49 UTC

Yeah, that was interesting. That's going to be interesting. My character is going to have her hands full with attempting ineffectual damage control, isn't she?

Poor, poor paladin.

cygna_hime January 29 2008, 12:49:58 UTC

Yes. Emo ex-paladin is emo. I don't think you can actually improve that much. (I'd recommend finding a way to heal him after he does stupid shit. Which he will.)

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