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Happily. Get smited. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] Ooops@feddit.org 22 points 1 week ago

smited

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

[-] Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago

Correcting a Paladin on how to smite is a good way to get smited

[-] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Tell that to my dumb ass birdboi paladin. Granted, he's a barbarian/fighter/paladin so it explains some things.

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's a semi abserd front line multi-class

[-] MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

After strength, charisma, and constitution do you think they have the intelligence for that?

[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Your wrong. It's smited since most people say smited.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Ur rong they dont

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week 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.works 8 points 1 week 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 points 1 week 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.zip 2 points 1 week 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.

[-] robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Paladins are bestadins!

[-] mika_mika@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The curse is you now have to rp as a paladin.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Druids, Clerics & Artificers: are we a joke to you?

[-] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

casts Find Steed with religious intent

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 points 1 week 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 3 points 1 week 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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Interesting and something I shall ignore anyways as the modern saying is in fact its complete form

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Don’t half-ass two things when you should whole-ass one thing.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago

Who are we who took our own pills?

[-] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My evil goblin circle of the moon druid tanks with all those wildshape hps for my party!

Yeah, Moon Druid is honestly a top-tier tank, especially once you hit a high enough level to cast while wildshaped.

[-] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

I miss Natural Spell at lv 5

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