He failed the roll to keep it a secret, and chose to succeed at serious cost: we decided the cost is that in order to keep the secret and explain his moving through the city, he deliberately got himself a reputation for visiting prostitutes.
Attack and defense rolls are about the only times you can't choose to succeed at cost.
So what keeps Walker, Texas Ranger interesting? What challenges does he face, what gets in his way?
Or, what about Riddick?
Riddick is Wanted Everywhere, he has Extreme Night Vision (a bonus and a penalty based on circumstance), he's Better Off Alone but Defends the Meek.
I don't know. I think most of the fascinating power of Walker Texas Ranger is seeing Chuck Norris win over the bad guys because that's how life should be.
None of these except his night vision ever gets in the way of being an awesome person in his areas of expertise, but they often get in the way of his goals.
You need to be as specific as possible about what you mean by "Riddick's style," because making him all those things is pretty much impossible if you want him to be competent at any of them.
Now: if faced with two options: would you rather have a sub-optimal choice that "feels" exactly right, or an optimal choice that doesn't "feel" quite like the Riddick in your head?
IE: If the "Riddick feel" is better gained by a sub-optimal feature choice, that's okay.
Re: alignment, well, that's a bag of drowned kittens we don't need to open. I'm of the opinion that 3.PF alignment is absolute and objective, with little to no interest in intent and based only on actions. In which case, Riddick is Neutral Evil. In philosophy and intent, he's probably Lawful Neutral.
@Discipol I'm asking about the optimization choice thing as a general rule. Obvious individual cases would be dealt with individually, but do you have a feeling about whether you're more interested in a Riddick-like mechanically superior character or a more viscerally Riddick character who might not be quite as superior mechanically?
It'd largely depend on your group's optimization choices.
So, here's what I've got:
- Hardy survivalist who strikes from the shadows - Night-optimized, okay to be at the expense of daytime ability. - Specializes in blades. - Affinity with animals a bonus. - If the "Riddick feel" is best gained by a sub-optimal feature choice, I'd rather have a slightly less Riddick-like but mechanically superior feature.
@Discipol Eh. That last line could've been taken at least three different ways, and only one of them would've had that implication.
- Hardy survivalist who strikes from the shadows - Night-optimized, okay to be at the expense of daytime ability. - Specializes in blades (melee a must; also ranged if possible). - Good at Intimidation - Will save is not a viable dump area. - Affinity with animals a bonus, but not necessary. - If the "Riddick feel" is best gained by a sub-optimal feature choice, I'd rather have a slightly less Riddick-like but mechanically superior feature. - Bald.
Just came back from Riddck and I loved it. Less than Chronicles of Riddick, I am afraid, but enjoyable still.
I would like a 20 build for Riddick based on these criteria:
Concept: Hardy survivalist who strikes from the shadows
Night-optimized, okay to be at the expense of daytime ability.
Spe...
It had some good visuals, and the basic ideas weren't bad.... just... not Riddick.
It was like they wanted to do a Riddick film, and some other entirely different space opera film, but decided to do them both at once.
Pitch Black didn't even hint at sapient alien races, for one thing--much less that Riddick was one of them. The franchise went out of its way twice to retcon it.
Chronicles would've been a much better film if it hadn't been a Riddick film--it still could've starred VD, just not as Riddick, because it turned into a massive case of genre whiplash, and a lot of effort was put into trying to tie the space opera story to a survivalist horror story instead of just working on the space opera.
@Discipol I think I'd probably use a ranger base for Riddick, and then apply liberal amounts of class variants.
So I am looking in the races of Fearun book. Some of the sub races have different ability modifiers the a normal race. Where would I find that? I just read through one and didn't find anything.
Am I just blind and not seeing it or is it another book I need to look in?
@Garan If you ever itch for a live game, you can ping me here. There are currently 4 of us, and we rotate as DM every now and then. Currently we are mainly playing WFRPG first edition, but we change game systems every now and again as well. We played 4e for a while, Cyberpunk 2020, shadowrun, and just tried out iron kingdoms
@GMNoob Well, thursday nights might still work, but only every third week. See, I'm in a yeshiva for the year, and every third week we have an out Shabbat. On those weeks, we have off from 1:00 on Thursday through the weekend. So it would depend on my plans.
@Garan Ah nice. We don't play every week. Generally what happens is we send out an email/facebook message asking if we can play this week or not, and then decide on a time and place. And.. how did you end up in Hispin for yeshiva for the year? Though that might be off topic for this chat.
D&D 3.0 question for which I'd like an answer before a friend of mine gies to bed: what skill and DC should be used to identify an item as an artifact? Those artifacts are specific of a certain faith.
Just came back from Riddck and I loved it. Less than Chronicles of Riddick, I am afraid, but enjoyable still.
I would like a 20 build for Riddick based on these criteria:
Concept: Hardy survivalist who strikes from the shadows
Night-optimized, okay to be at the expense of daytime ability.
Spe...
