Base Class Challenge Chat Thread IV: All Your Base [Class] Are Belong to Us

[MrNobody]

@Zaydos: you forgot flamingos! a themed druid-like class that spawns beautiful and graceful flamingos all around!

@ Jormengand: about pink, you might need some Inspiration!

[Jormengand]

Also throwing in an old idea, Alignments?

Well, I do have an idea forming for a deadly sin/heavenly virtue based class.

[Xhosant]

Sower of Discord for me :P

[Zaydos]

Also throwing in an old idea, Alignments?

My first idea is someone who lets a demon in their soul, but I made that a little while ago. So instead hmm...

A single class which can exemplify any of the 4 NX/XN alignments would be too close to Paladin/Incarnate unless a full caster which could be done but balancing the 4 spell lists against each other... would not be 100% required even so...

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Saint: Full caster with an emphasis on Sacred Vows. Paragon of Exalted good. Gets benefits that help with casting Sanctified Spells (count as an archon and the like), various healing abilities, and a fixed list of spells.

Autarch: An absolute ruler. A paragon of Law, which gets abilities which allow them to Command. Aura based buffs + Charm/Compulsion effects. Not actually a caster (SLAs and the like).

Cultist: A priest of demon lords. This is a kind of boring idea.

Xaosmancer: Fixed list caster with limited spells per day and list of transmutation spells + certain Chaotic spells and Confusion style effects. In addition they gain some access to at-will Invocation-style SLAs but some element of randomness involved either in their SLAs each day, or the actual effects of their SLAs (stuff like an at-will blast with a prismatic ray style Roll for effect). Draw some stuff from the Wild Mage PrC such as a variable CL and benefits to random magic items like Rod of Wonder.

@Zaydos: you forgot flamingos! a themed druid-like class that spawns beautiful and graceful flamingos all around!

@ Jormengand: about pink, you might need some Inspiration!

I would never make that, besides it seems more like a 5 level PrC.

[Beelzebub1111]

For Pink, I'd probably make a butterfly knight. Summons swarms, forms weapons out of them, discorporates into a swarm. Grows wings, gets DR cold iron. A Faerie warrior princess skydancer

[sengmeng]

Has anyone ever suggested a theme of internet memes? I'd probably do an Amazing Horseman.

[Beelzebub1111]

Hmm...magical tevor or Narwhal Knight?

[Jormengand]

Has anyone ever suggested a theme of internet memes? I'd probably do an Amazing Horseman.

YES THIS IS NOW A THING I AM MAKING A LENNY FACE CLASS.

But anyway, yeah, memes could be cool.

[ezkajii]

I also second this concept.

[Xhosant]

Dibs on the Troll :-P

[Beelzebub1111]

Would MSPA count as a meme?

I could make the entire class based around purposefully obtuse language and mechanics

[Jester of Doom]

I'm in favor of reality warping or science. I might have a class idea for those.

Also, is anyone interested in the Far Realm as a theme? It has a lot of overlap with the other two, but is quite a bit more restrictive than they are.

[Temotei]

Also, is anyone interested in the Far Realm as a theme? It has a lot of overlap with the other two, but is quite a bit more restrictive than they are.

It would probably overlap quite a bit with the madness theme we had in XVIII. While I'm not averse to themes we've had in the past (or similar ones), XVIII wasn't that long ago. Probably best to hold onto that idea for a while before using it.

But that's just my opinion. Others can chime in and be like, "You're dumb, Temotei" and we can have the theme anyway. Except people probably can't say that non-jokingly because rules but whatever.

[Zaydos]

I missed Madness because of Physics, but I could revive my idea for it for a Far Realm theme since it involved being a conduit to the Far Realm.

[Temotei]

Voting has concluded.

1st Place: Zaydos' Simic Biomancer!

2nd Place: Jormengand's Warp Mage!

3rd Place: Beelzebub1111's Spellshaper!

Notably, each placing class had only 1 point over the next, and after 3rd, ezkajii's Rulemaker was also only 1 point behind. Kind of cool.

Anyway, congrats, all, and nicely done. Next contest will be up after I decide which theme to go with.

[Beelzebub1111]

Hoooo that was a close one. That makes my third third place. I am eternally adequate.

[ezkajii]

Congratulations to all the medalists! It was a good match, everyone.

Another idea for the next contest: "Anti" - classes devoted one way or another to opposing a specific force, concept, etc. or diametric opposition in some way.

[Temotei]

Here we are.

By the way, counting up winners from previous contests, this last 1st-place finish for Zaydos puts him at the highest number of wins with six.

Maybe it's time to change my signature colors... Yeeeaaaahhhhhhh

[Zaydos]

Do "young girl" things count even if they do not directly have anything to do with the color pink?

[Temotei]

Do "young girl" things count even if they do not directly have anything to do with the color pink?

Yeah, sure. I'll clarify in the contest thread.

[Beelzebub1111]

Heh, I have an idea for a class, though I'm not sure if I'll actually use it, so feel free:

The Rouge.

[Jormengand]

Heh, I have an idea for a class, though I'm not sure if I'll actually use it, so feel free:

The Rouge.

You have doomed us all.

[Zaydos]

heh, i have an idea for a class, though i'm not sure if i'll actually use it, so feel free:

The rouge.

i... I...

you have doomed us all.

^that!!!!

[Jormengand]

I feel the need to make a flower mage class that fights by randomly having flowers floating around her, but not sure how to make this work... hmm...

I can make this a thing.

[Temotei]

Heh, I have an idea for a class, though I'm not sure if I'll actually use it, so feel free:

The Rouge.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[1pwny]

Get ready...

The almighty peak of all Demonism and the most feared existence in all of the universe...

I will try to recreate....

THE CAREBEAR!!!

Dun dun DDUUUUUNNNN!

[Temotei]

I feel the need to make a flower mage class that fights by randomly having flowers floating around her, but not sure how to make this work... hmm...

I can make this a thing.

Maybe take inspiration from some Grass- and Poison-type Pokémon moves?

Get ready...

The almighty peak of all Demonism and the most feared existence in all of the universe...

I will try to recreate....

THE CAREBEAR!!!

Dun dun DDUUUUUNNNN!

ohgarsh

[Carl]

Heh, I have an idea for a class, though I'm not sure if I'll actually use it, so feel free:

The Rouge.

I don't get this, care to explain...

[Beelzebub1111]

I don't get this, care to explain...

the Rogue class is commonly misspelled as Rouge. I proposed a class called Rouge (presumably a stealth/skill class that uses makeup magic or something) to further confuse things

[Carl]

My spelling is sufficently bad i never noticed. I actually rely on a spellchecker quite a bit, (dyslexic and dyspraxic so i got an excuse ;)).