TTRPGs, Warhammer, MMORPGs, and geeky things. Views are my own. Conservative but not political. Just when I thought I was out, WoW (Forever) pulled me back in.
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Nobleshield retweeted
"You can't block that with your shield?"
"Why? I can literally put my shield between me and the attack."
"You have to parry!"
"Oh, by putting my weapon between me and the attack, and then moving it slightly?"
"Yes!"
"Why can't I do that with my shield?"
"Well... b-because!!"
Nobleshield retweeted
I really don’t see e-crusaders who incongruously shoehorn Christianity into a setting as any different in principle from alphabet soup people who just want to plaster their identity flags onto every hobby or interest they can get their hands on. No regard for verisimilitude.
Nobleshield retweeted
Wow Forever is screaming at you not to rush!
The experience of this game is supposed to be slow. You and I need to slow down in life, in thoughts, as much as we can.
Forever is trying to tell you that you don’t ever need to rush. Permanent level 60 cap is saying, “you won’t fall behind”. Look, the world immersion tech with dynamic weather and visual updates are telling you to look at the world.
The increase in quests and leveling areas are telling you that you don’t need to grind nearly as much and that you can experience a grander take on Azeroth.
Going Reamless is telling you that no matter what year it is, when you log in, or how far past launch, that you will always have people to play with. You won’t be without a group to get together, or someone to PvP, or join up and quest.
Don’t rush it. This is the first time you get to re-experience (or first experience) World of Warcraft. Remember when you first played? Did you log in and spam quests as fast as you could? I would imagine not.
I can't say I care for the argument that paladins should be lawful good solely based on bringing in Christianity (or any real-world religion, for that matter) to the discussion.
I get the reasoning, of course; knights (including the 12 Peers) were, after all, Christian, but we're talking about a fantasy setting that is almost always polytheistic (even if it barely resembles real-world polytheism), so the comparison makes no sense unless your fantasy setting is monotheistic.
If your setting, like many, has multiple Lawful Good gods, then the Christian connection completely falls flat anyway, before you debate whether they should be required to be Lawful Good because those espouse the traditional "knightly virtues".
The Paladin topic is amusing because that seems to be the one and only hill people are willing to die on, because they can't get over the fact D&D still uses that name while it's not the same class.
You don't see these arguments about Druids, Rangers, or anything else.
This red baron thing is actually pathetic. Guy pulls a "woe is me my life sucks so much" victim card over a prank that wasn't even true, and tons of morons throw him thousands for doing absolutely nothing? Literally rewarding some worthless nobody for being a worthles nobody
Just for shits and giggles, @grok, what's your take on this and paladins being required to be Lawful Good?
Nobleshield retweeted
My only standards for Paladins is that they need a god or patron to draw power from, and their values must align with that entity. I'm going to penalize the guy who gets his powers from a LG deity skinning orphans to make a leather jacket with forced Oathbreaker.
Nobleshield retweeted
FOR THE HORDE!
Send this to the people you want in your first WoW: Forever group 📩
ALT At the top of the image is the World of Warcraft: Forever logo, with “The Alliance Needs You” in large, all-caps lettering at the bottom. A female Night elf points directly at the viewer, with a blue filter over Stormwind in the background and the Alliance emblem behind her.
ALT At the top of the image is the World of Warcraft: Forever logo, with “The Horde Needs You” in large, all-caps lettering at the bottom. A male orc points directly at the viewer, with a red filter over Orgrimmar in the background and the Horde emblem behind him.
All this paladin talk about words and meanings, and everyone (including me?) has forgotten the most important rule: It's the DM's discretion.
It's not as if loads of people in the 80s and 90s didn't house-rule that paladins didn't have to be only human, or even that they didn't have to be lawful good. Those people weren't right or wrong.
In the end, it's what you want. More traditional? Yeah, Paladin is lawful good human only, so let it be written, so let it be done. Less traditional? Maybe there's Elf or Dwarf paladins and they can be LG/CG/NG or whatever.
It's a silly argument that, in the end, can and does vary by table.
If D&D called it "Champion" like Pathfinder does, 99% of the "Paladins MUST be Lawful Good and Human" argument vanishes because it's not a Paladin anymore (although clearly the same thing).
They are literally too caught up in a single word to see the forest through the trees.
Nobleshield retweeted
As I have been saying for years, the difference between woke and not woke is all in the presentation.
Having gay characters or stories involving refugees does not make something woke, preaching and shoving your politics down the player's throat makes it woke.
Nobleshield retweeted
Paladin means more like "best of the best" not "purest of the pure" but since D&D forced them all to be LG holy warriors, well.... that definition has crept into the zeitgeist anymore, it seems.
I had many an argument with my DM in the late 80's about that alignment restriction. I wanted my Lawful Evil Paladin of Hextor, darnitall!
