08-28-2017, 10:19 PM | #12 | |
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Re: [DFRPG] The Scholar, Revised
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* Kinda. It's a Sage, so a 125 point character. but the point still stands. Getting the last and most smart-alecky word in is always fun. |
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08-29-2017, 12:22 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: England
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Re: [DFRPG] The Scholar, Revised
I always like the idea of playing a scholar, but reading the template left me wondering what it was really like to play one in practice.
Wild Talent is great...once per game session, you can do almost anything (especially IQ-based skills or spells given your high IQ)...but once you've used it, that's it for the session. It stops you intruding on other template's niches, but it looked handy in an emergency. Book-Learned Wisdom on the other hand is flexible, but takes ages - two hours per character point to memorise plus having to carry the weight of books around (even carrying multiple Primers around adds up fast) means that you can't easily reslot abilities mid-delve. The Hidden Lore and other skills are nice, but I'm not sure how effective they make a delver compared to other templates. The Sage template seems a little more flexible on paper than a Scholar, with more choice, if I wanted to play a scholarly character I might be tempted to build up a Sage to 250 points than a Scholar, that way I can avoid Book-Learned Wisdom If you don't mind me asking, how do you find playing a Sage? How does it compare with other characters? |
08-29-2017, 01:02 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
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Re: [DFRPG] The Scholar, Revised
Yep, Book Learned Wisdom is what Scholar's are all about. Personally I wouldn't say it's a very useful thing, it's a good back-up to an existing build, but it shouldn't be you entire character.
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08-29-2017, 02:19 AM | #15 | |||
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Re: [DFRPG] The Scholar, Revised
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Does that unknown beasty have a targettable weakness? What are it's powers? How is it likely to attack? Are it's remains valuable? Hidden Lore. And of course all the other skills. My choice if I were to remake the character would be to go the Jack-of-All trades route rather than the Dabbler route... but Dabbler ain't been bad. My build is more of a "Let's make a 3/4s Sage, 1/4 Agent, a dabbling in Thief (Lockpicking and Traps), with Psionic Background*, and a bunch of languages". Honestly a almost a fifth of my points are in languages and Language talent (24 points). The character does a lot of poorly Accented talking... * It's for later expansion into a powerset... but since I've discovered I really hate the way Psionics have been built, not sure I'm going to pursue it. Quote:
** Which I'm okay with. I've got three other character I play in other games that can do that (okay two of them can do that, the fourth is a 'utility Wizard' with 'terrible' combat skills (though not as bad as the Sage's)). |
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08-29-2017, 02:43 AM | #16 |
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Re: [DFRPG] The Scholar, Revised
Anyone able to give an off topic Rules Clarification in GURPS? Have a question about self control vs. will?
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08-29-2017, 03:02 AM | #17 |
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Re: [DFRPG] The Scholar, Revised
Please start a new thread for that.
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08-29-2017, 04:48 AM | #18 |
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Re: [DFRPG] The Scholar, Revised
Can anyone tell me how to start a new thread. I have a specific Rules question
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08-29-2017, 04:52 AM | #19 |
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08-29-2017, 06:50 AM | #20 |
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