Comments on: The Fighter Class, Part Six https://www.tribality.com/2017/11/09/fighter-class-part-six/ D&D / Role Playing Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Adam Duclos https://www.tribality.com/2017/11/09/fighter-class-part-six/#comment-4218 Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:04:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=22066#comment-4218 The ‘Ancestral Daisho’ of the OA samurai was one of the few non-house-ruled ways to avoid having to sell your loot for half price, so that was neat!

]]> By: Syd Andrews https://www.tribality.com/2017/11/09/fighter-class-part-six/#comment-4132 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:06:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=22066#comment-4132 In one of the last 3.x campaigns I played, my friend played a Samurai. I believe it was the 3.5 version out of CW, but I don’t recall exactly (it was over a decade ago). The biggest problem that we ran into was actually one of “setting clash”. He wanted to play a Samurai that was fully shaped by the Western culture stereotype (which is fine, play what you like, it’s a game). However, the rest of us weren’t playing in that “setting”. So the DM often was hard pressed to figure out how to explain this “foreign man in a foreign land” scenario we had. Ultimately, he decided to base the campaign in a fairly large trading city on the coast. And over the sea was the “eastern lands”. So this character could have his Daimyo locally, but we didn’t all have to be in the “stereotypical Oriental setting”. Meh, it worked for us well enough, I suppose.

I don’t recall all of the specific ins-and-outs of those characters, but I do recall that the Dwarf Barbarian rapidly shadowed the Samurai when it came to anything combat related. The Samurai was more of a story-driving character, as the DM could throw out adventure hooks as “Your Daimyo sends you on an errand. And he admonishes you to keep your uncouth companions under control, as he doesn’t want a repeat of last time”

Overall, I think that the Samurai would work best as the “tank” class if a group was running a specific OA-themed campaign. And all of the characters/classes came from this setting. It creates an odd narrative where the group has to do a lot of mental gymnastics in juxtaposing tropes when you have some OA and some non-OA classes adventuring together. Unless, of course, the classes are reskinned enough to mesh well with a homebrew setting.

]]> By: Brandes Stoddard https://www.tribality.com/2017/11/09/fighter-class-part-six/#comment-4125 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:41:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=22066#comment-4125 In reply to Cuix.

I anticipate covering the shaman and shugenja in the History of the Cleric, and the wu jen in the History of the Wizard. =)

]]> By: Cuix https://www.tribality.com/2017/11/09/fighter-class-part-six/#comment-4123 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:37:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=22066#comment-4123 Oh, christ, OA. What a book. The Sohei’s relation to the paladin is pretty interesting, and the Shaman having bits of paladin + monk + druid is extra silly. As for the other, “What about the Complete Warrior Samurai?” is an easy way to get a chuckle in one of my (formerly) regular gaming groups.

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