crime lords and class
Jan. 6th, 2019 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliSo, if a D&D/Pathfinder game, or a GameLit novel, has a crime lord, what class should that character be? Hmmmmm. . . . hmmmmm. . . .
You can get away with almost anything, if it fits the plot. Or you fit the plot to it. But fortunately, the plot is demanding a Deadly Encounter for the party -- large though it is, it's going to survive because of a character's knowing the crime lord's weakness, and the crime lord's assuming that the same character can't overcome her own weakness to exploit that knowledge. That narrows down the choices. Obviously class-based.
I think I'm going to make her a sorceress, and one whose spells concentrate on the offensive and on light and fire. Also a physically enormous, powerful and intimidating figure -- hmmm -- not a half-ogre because that would bust the world-building -- a beastman of some type. Possibly lion to make her bright and sunshiny in appearance when she's a crime lord.
Plus some powerful objects, because this is a high magic world, and her foes have them, too.
You can get away with almost anything, if it fits the plot. Or you fit the plot to it. But fortunately, the plot is demanding a Deadly Encounter for the party -- large though it is, it's going to survive because of a character's knowing the crime lord's weakness, and the crime lord's assuming that the same character can't overcome her own weakness to exploit that knowledge. That narrows down the choices. Obviously class-based.
I think I'm going to make her a sorceress, and one whose spells concentrate on the offensive and on light and fire. Also a physically enormous, powerful and intimidating figure -- hmmm -- not a half-ogre because that would bust the world-building -- a beastman of some type. Possibly lion to make her bright and sunshiny in appearance when she's a crime lord.
Plus some powerful objects, because this is a high magic world, and her foes have them, too.