11-21-2011, 06:39 PM | #1 |
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[DF] Primer's for Scholars - What skills would you pick?
I'm making a few pre-gen characters for a new player to select from to join my recently started Dungeon Fantasy game.
One of the choices I'm planning on making is the Curator Scholar (DF4) with appropriate Load-Outs from DF13. What skills would you select for the three primers? Keep in mind that these primers are at the base price, which restricts them to common knowledge, in this case a typical mundane skill that defaults to IQ, Will or Per. Any thoughts?
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11-21-2011, 08:07 PM | #2 | |
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11-22-2011, 06:30 AM | #3 |
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Re: [DF] Primer's for Scholars - What skills would you pick?
Depends heavily on what the party will be doing and what skill sets they would otherwise lack.
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11-22-2011, 06:58 AM | #4 | |
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11-22-2011, 08:52 AM | #5 | |
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In general, the Scholar has the wizards gigantic throbbing intellect - so one route is to "snipe" knowledge skills from other, lower-IQ templates. This can be especially profitable if you keep a set of books in town for item identification and appraisal - Connoisseur specialties, Jeweler, Merchant, etc. Monster identification skills are definitely useful. Naturalist will be a special help, as the templates that get it are usually high PER not high IQ.
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11-22-2011, 11:54 AM | #6 |
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Re: [DF] Primer's for Scholars - What skills would you pick?
To bad it is mundane, or you could have Hidden Lore.
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11-22-2011, 07:34 PM | #8 |
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Re: [DF] Primer's for Scholars - What skills would you pick?
To me, DF is cinematic enough that it shouldn't matter too much. Instead of just allowing the PCs to draw parallels, which is what the books say, give a bit more useful info, and remember that in a typical fantasy world, the info provided will be more legend and lore (and opinion) than fact, which you can use to help sow plot hooks.
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