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<p>Created page with &quot;{{Post |a=DR-ARMIFER |t=Re: Defense Proficiency |d=05/19/2014 11:27 AM CDT |n=2660 |f=The Paladins \ General Discussions |c=d |p=&#039;&#039;&gt;&gt;RP should inform development direction, wh...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Post<br /> |a=DR-ARMIFER<br /> |t=Re: Defense Proficiency<br /> |d=05/19/2014 11:27 AM CDT<br /> |n=2660<br /> |f=The Paladins \ General Discussions<br /> |c=d<br /> |p=&#039;&#039;&gt;&gt;RP should inform development direction, which seems to have been the case here according to [[Armifer]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> I&#039;d say more broadly that there needs to be a development vision that encompasses both RP and mechanical considerations. This affects both considerations of what we give a guild (&quot;Why should Moon Mages get this ability?&quot;) and the &#039;lore wrapper&#039; behind it (&quot;How should this ability, now that we&#039;ve decided Moon Mages should get it, be described and interpreted in the lore of the game?&quot;).&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Without doing this work, you get abilities being slapped onto a guild without any coherent design. Take Bards pre-Raesh. Bards had the ability to read any scroll... for no real reason except they could do it in D&amp;D. There was a proposal years ago to give them songbird pets. Because songs. It was complete conceptual chaos.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> {{PRel|Paladin|Paladins}} are difficult because {{PRel|Cleric|Clerics}} exist and are far more expansive than a typical game. There&#039;s no room for Palaidins to be the holy smiters of demons and undead, as a primary identity, because there&#039;s already a guild that does that as efficiently as we care to let any PC do it.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> So where does that leave a vision for Paladins? I donno. I&#039;ve been quoted as saying that the Paladin Guild shouldn&#039;t exist, and this is the problematic I refer to in that quote.<br /> |sub=Development<br /> }}</div>

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