Re: session re****t

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          "DougL" <lampert.doug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Jan 26, 10:12 pm, Erol K. Bayburt <Ero...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Let me dissent here: I agree that Paladins, Jedi, etc. should be
> > superior folk, a cut or three above the ordinary denizens of the world
> > - but so should the other player-character types. Thus, in my view, a
> > paladin should be inherently superior and unbalanced to a (npc-class)
> > warrior, but NOT to a (PC-class) fighter. Making the paladin superior
> > to the warrior should be enough to satisfy the internal gameworld
> > logic.
> 
> Fighter 1, multiclasses to Paladin. He's ALREADY the superior PC type, 
> now he's got the Paladin additional power too.
> 
> It's extra power, that means extra.
> 
> To take your green lantern vs. Superman analogy, there's NOTHING in 
> the gameworld to stop Superman from becoming a green lantern too. And 
> there's NOTHING in the gameworld that says a paladin wasn't as good as 
> a fighter PRIOR to getting the added power.
> 
> The Character already HAS the elite abilities and elite/PC character 
> type training PRIOR to becoming a Paladin. The extra power from 
> Paladin must thus be on top of that from being an elite PC type.

Your reasoning looks hole-free to me. But where does it say that all PCs
must be exactly balanced? And is there a GM out there who has succeeded in
this feat? While a party of PCs are going to be peers, it is unlikely -
and
undesirable - for them all to be exactly equally as powerful. In Earthdawn
terms for example, I'm quite happy to have a couple of levels' difference
between different members of the same group.

So having an extra powerful paladin is not a problem per se. I actually
think having a fighter multi-class to paladin should produce a character
of slightly less power than a pure 100% paladin - because his skills are
being slightly diluted by the fighter abilities. Such a character is
likely
to be more interesting to play, though, because he'll probably be a more
rounded character.

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