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    Quote Originally Posted by Sgt. Cookie View Post
    Knights are always noble. ALWAYS.

    Hear me out on this one.

    Where are the Knights who lie, cheat at dice and insult people to their face, yet offers their opponent every chance in combat?
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    Easist sterytype to fall into. Combat is the only way to solve a problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grimsage Matt View Post
    Easist sterytype to fall into. Combat is the only way to solve a problem.
    Well theres always drinking contests.... (which always leads into a bar fight)
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    Quote Originally Posted by North_Ranger View Post
    History books?
    I'm well aware that this was historicaly accurate, but in DnD? Not so much.
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    Fighters are either Knights or Mercenaries.

    Paladins are always Noble and never evil. Otherwise, they are Blackguard or whatever.

    Druids are always eco terrorists.

    Bards always have Lutes.

    Dwarves are always stocky.

    Humans are always in between five feet and 6'2".

    Gnomes are always tricksters/comedians.

    There are either Inns or Taverns. No Pubs, Bars, Bed and Breakfasts, Hotels, or Motels.

    Health Potions can be drunk as much as you want, without filling you up.

    Ghosts are never friendly.

    Zombies are always created by magical means, never by a mutated strain of Rabies.

    Cannibals always eat every other race but their own

    Magic wands are the equivellent of guns with magic instead of bullets. Hence they can run out of magic same way a gun runs out of bullets.

    The only people who worship gods are Clerics and Paladins or any other divine class. There is never a general mass.

    Temples are rarely actually used for prayer, instead they are warehouses of artifacts riddled with traps. Because congregations are never expected to meet inside the temple.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xuc Xac View Post
    What do you think "adventuring" is? Back in the days of primogeniture, it was standard procedure for the non-eldest sons to join a mercenary company to try to make their own fortunes because big brother gets to inherit everything. If there had been dragon hoards in the real world in the middle ages, those guys would have been all over it.
    Workable though it is, you can't deny that the version of "noble adventurers" you speak of here is different than the one he's talking about. The runaways.



    Conan was a wise man of the wild. "Smarter and tougher because he's not weakened by civilization" is his core character trait.Rising to the top through cunning and ruthlessness is the basic plot of half the Conan stories. He even became king of a country by working his way up the ranks of their military as a mercenary and then staging a coup.
    Fine, fine. Replace "Conan" with "berserker" and we're right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DontEatRawHagis View Post
    Paladins are always Noble and never evil..
    You know, that's kinda the point of paladins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slipperychicken View Post
    PCs who have no problem with looting countless tombs, sarcophagi, catacombs, and generally stripping every corpse they encounter... but cannot stand the thought of looting a fallen comrade and start spouting hypocritical bull**** like: "You need to respect the dead!", "What would he think of your behavior now?", or "We're not theives! We're better than that!"

    And they might even do this while robbing someone's tomb.
    Wait, wait. This gives me an idea.

    Imagine the party giving a solem burial for their friend, and then, several levels later, having a go at yet another necromantic infestation. Pretty run-of-the-mill, except when they start gathering up the loot they get the stuff their friend was buried with.

    Alternatively, items of previous characters from previous campaigns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hyena View Post
    You know, that's kinda the point of paladins.
    Yes, but its kind of stupid considering that Paladins should have different morals compared to other paladins and nobles. They're kind of like Vigilantes that mess with law and order of a city, just because it doesn't fit their world view.

    I had a couple Paladins killing off the clergy of other churches in order to gain more favor with their God. Makes sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xuc Xac View Post
    That's what happens when you have the benefit of superior nutrition and living conditions for your entire life starting even before birth.
    I think you're forgetting all the inbreeding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DontEatRawHagis View Post
    Cannibals always eat every other race but their own
    Technically, they aren't cannibals if they don't eat their own. They're just connoisseurs of exotic cuisine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DontEatRawHagis View Post
    I had a couple Paladins killing off the clergy of other churches in order to gain more favor with their God. Makes sense.
    Uh, you do still remember that your character is supposed to be champion of god and fighter for justice? It's right here, in the class description.

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    You never meet an elf child. Ever.
    This is really kinda odd because they're kids for like a century.

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    PC3: My reflex save is +15, and I didn't roll a one, so I'm good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Infernalbargain View Post
    You never meet an elf child. Ever.
    This is really kinda odd because they're kids for like a century.
    This made me think of one:

    You never meet old Paladins.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Antonok View Post
    This made me think of one:

    You never meet old Paladins.
    Not that odd to me. How often do you expect Paladins to live to be old?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
    Not that odd to me. How often do you expect Paladins to live to be old?
    Paladins are like henchmen, except good aligned. They fight for causes they believe in for little pay except for a pat on the back, and often die without a chance for another life, and in the end 90% of the people you meet will just remember you as that guy with the funny accent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Infernalbargain View Post
    You never meet an elf child. Ever.
    This is really kinda odd because they're kids for like a century.
    My theory is that elf children are universally bratty and stupid. Their parents keep them hidden away to avoid bringing shame to their family.

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    The nobles of the country disdain the peasants.

    If a PC is Lawful Good, the class is a divine class or a monk. Lawful good wizard? Rogue? Psion? Fighter? Warblade? Pshaw!

    Someone posts a generalization stereotype for a fun joke thread, someone else responds with a counterexample.

    A player will quote Monty Python or joke about attacking the darkness, depending on generation.

    There once was a Great Empire that covered all the land. After the Emperor died, his heir was not accepted. There was civil war. When it ended we have the nations of today. Really, this predates Eberron!

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    Quote Originally Posted by navar100 View Post
    A player will quote Monty Python or joke about attacking the darkness, depending on generation.
    Some of us have Monty Python characters joke about attacking the darkness.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DontEatRawHagis View Post
    Cannibals always eat every other race but their own
    Actually, depending on how you define "race" this is more-or-less accurate. Real-life cannibalistic cultures only kill and eat members of rival groups.

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    About theres never any Female monsters/old paladins... My PnP group has been preached at by a Female Troll Paladin thats over 3000. It was funny as heck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hopeless View Post
    After all we've all heard of werewolves but when have we ever had trouble with werehumans?
    Having played quite a bit of W:tA, yes, I've had my share of trouble with Red Talons

    (But that's not D&D of course)

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    There's a reason for this one, if another party is equal or more effective, why is it your party is the one to save the world? It would be best to hire them both, and since they probably have the same leads, they'll be joining you. All of a sudden, you have a DMPC party joining the regular one. Watch them be awesome!
    When it comes to saving the world/ high level play then yes, the PC party should be in the spot light and the go to guys. But when your a bunch of level ones or twos then were are the rival parties? The ones that solve the problems that you have no time for? Thats what I was thinking about
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sgt. Cookie View Post
    I'm well aware that this was historicaly accurate, but in DnD? Not so much.
    well , i mean, considering that in fantasy Knights are the equivalent of superheroes....

    fantasy knights are based off the tales of king arthur's court, not history.


    History isnt fun, or else we'd go all "Oh, look at history, isnt the human race awesome?"

    No we tell stories of non humans, and if we talk about humans its either improperly noble ones , or how the other races are better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MurphysLaw159 View Post
    When it comes to saving the world/ high level play then yes, the PC party should be in the spot light and the go to guys. But when your a bunch of level ones or twos then were are the rival parties? The ones that solve the problems that you have no time for? Thats what I was thinking about
    I understand where you're coming from, but even at the low levels, the other parties are either elsewhere, or otherwise not taking your job. Maybe the DM should have a few quest-givers that say someone else has already started/completed that quest, but that doesn't really add much to the game.
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    Wait, wait. This gives me an idea.

    Imagine the party giving a solem burial for their friend, and then, several levels later, having a go at yet another necromantic infestation. Pretty run-of-the-mill, except when they start gathering up the loot they get the stuff their friend was buried with.

    Alternatively, items of previous characters from previous campaigns.
    Stolen. And when one of us does that, that is going in the creepy list.

    About theres never any Female monsters/old paladins... My PnP group has been preached at by a Female Troll Paladin thats over 3000. It was funny as heck.
    That's funny.
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    Half-elves and Half-orcs always relate to their non-human heritage. It's always their non-human bloodline that matters. They are involved with their non-human racial politics and culture. Their human ancestry is irrelevant and ignored.

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    Quote Originally Posted by navar100 View Post
    Half-elves and Half-orcs always relate to their non-human heritage. It's always their non-human bloodline that matters. They are involved with their non-human racial politics and culture. Their human ancestry is irrelevant and ignored.
    That irritates me too.

    I remember once I created a NPC who hated his half elven nature, and almost worshiped his human half (considering any city, country, artifact, etc. of human make a grand symbol of his noble heritage). He grew up around elves, so humans were the exotic other who is father was part of. One of the players said the character inspired him to create a simmilar character when he was DM...who would always praise his elven nature and detested his human. The player didn't do it as a take that to me, he honestly thought it was more original.
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    I like this thread.

    Mmm, I get annoyed when PCs assume that all barmaids are nothing more than fleshbags to hit on every time they come across one who live only to be sexed up by the PC. I myself am guilty of this, mostly to see if the DM will bend and indulge in my silliness, though I never had my PCs go past simple flirting.
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    Generally, the fact that humans will be the clearly dominant race, despite having no obvious advantages that would make them so.
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