Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
What's this Hidden Demon feat?
EDIT: Nevermind, silly question.
Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
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dyslexicfaser
What's this Hidden Demon feat?
I think he means the Inner Demon feat.
Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
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Krimm_Blackleaf
I think he means the Inner Demon feat.
Yup, fixed.
Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
Love your stuff, Demented One, but I have a question about your Silent Demon class.
The demonic martial art "Blood War Tactics", does this add Wisdom to damage rolls as well? My player and I were curious as he was interested in this class. I said probably not, but we wanted to make sure.
Thanks!
-X
Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
Har har, you can only call thread necromancy when someone posts on an old threat with stuff like, "I agree." and so forth.
I call forum foul.
-X
Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
Meh, this is my first time seeing it si I want to say nice job. And yes, it was a bit through ego that I opened it up. :smallbiggrin:
Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
I personally don't like the fluff. The whole "harness the darkside without giving in" motif is pretty lazy writing in my opinion.
1) It's been done to death. Star Wars, for example.
2) Your class is too cool to be "good." That is to say, your class is acting out to get attention. It dresses black and dabbles in the occult and then yells at mom because she doesn't understand him. It's pretty emo.
3) You're not being descriptive when you use "dark," "darkside," "evil," and "demonic" in the same paragraph.
Personally, I probably would have gone with a more Taoistic angle. A group of warrior-oracles reputed for being mysteriously silent while they rip your lungs up out of your throat. This eeriness is compounded by the fact that they wear masks. The end result is that they betray no emotion and are rather unnerving to fight.
Therefore they have an unusual penchant for trying to master their animal savagery by learning to express and control it effectively, rather than trying to suppress it. It's isn't about "mastering metaphysical evil without corruption." It has more to do with personal responsibility and foresight. Probably closer to "law versus chaos." Not "good versus evil."
Their power source might very well still come from demons teaching them their secrets. But I mean "demons" in a more shamanistic spirit sense than as an agent of evil trying to damn souls. Sort of like how there are myths that ninjas were taught their secrets by Tengu. This is nicely appropriate since the ninja conspiracy theory was pretty mythical in its own right.
In other words, the fluff is hampered by too many Western preoccupations about the good vs. evil duality.
(Come to think of it, this reminds me of the Dark Reapers from WH40k with a more eastern shamanistic flavoring.)
Re: The Silent Demon [PrC]
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Originally Posted by
LurkerInPlayground
I personally don't like the fluff. The whole "harness the darkside without giving in" motif is pretty lazy writing in my opinion.
1) It's been done to death. Star Wars, for example.
2) Your class is too cool to be "good." That is to say, your class is acting out to get attention. It dresses black and dabbles in the occult and then yells at mom because she doesn't understand him. It's pretty emo.
3) You're not being descriptive when you use "dark," "darkside," "evil," and "demonic" in the same paragraph.
Personally, I probably would have gone with a more Taoistic angle. A group of warrior-oracles reputed for being mysteriously silent while they rip your lungs up out of your throat. This eeriness is compounded by the fact that they wear masks. The end result is that they betray no emotion and are rather unnerving to fight.
Therefore they have an unusual penchant for trying to master their animal savagery by learning to express and control it effectively, rather than trying to suppress it. It's isn't about "mastering metaphysical evil without corruption." It has more to do with personal responsibility and foresight. Probably closer to "law versus chaos." Not "good versus evil."
Their power source might very well still come from demons teaching them their secrets. But I mean "demons" in a more shamanistic spirit sense than as an agent of evil trying to damn souls. Sort of like how there are myths that ninjas were taught their secrets by Tengu. This is nicely appropriate since the ninja conspiracy theory was pretty mythical in its own right.
In other words, the fluff is hampered by too many Western preoccupations about the good vs. evil duality.
(Come to think of it, this reminds me of the Dark Reapers from WH40k with a more eastern shamanistic flavoring.)
First, I shall say that flavor is ultimately mutable.
Second, I shall say that this class is supposed to be the other side of the same coin that is this class, and my Masked Demon. My class being a class that takes the darkness on a fancy date and paints the town red with it. The host of the demon gets power, the demon gets to eat the host from the inside out. This class realizes that demons are probably always hungry for innards, and waggles the finger at it in threat of beating it senseless if it acts up, but still takes stuff from it.
The point really being that it was an idea at least inspired by mine(which wasn't really even mine in the first place). But as far as opposites go, these two fit as good bedfellows.