Say any of these races, classes, clans, builds, backgrounds, or archetypes online and you will be deluged with hate. Why is it everyone thinks bards suck, or Kender are too annoying to let live? And is it possible to redeem these characters?
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Our Guests
Brandon Gensemer
Justin Suzuki
What We’ve Been Playing
D&D Next (Darryl)
2048 (Darryl)
Savage Worlds (Justin)
Deadlands (Justin)
Interface Zero 2.0 (Justin)
Titanfall (Justin)
Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 (Brandon)
Pathfinder (Brandon)
Shadowrun Returns (Brandon)
Shadowrun 4th Edition (Ross & Brandon)
Champions (Ross)
Accursed (Ross)
Blood Bowl (Ross)
Character Types We Love to Hate
Here’s the list we discuss on the show:
Angry Loner
Kender
Malkavian
Paladin
Illusionist
Gnome
Bard
Jedi
Glitterboy
Hacker/Decker/Netrunner
Links
Counter Monkey: All Jedi or No Jedi
Ross and Darryl are both attending the following conventions:
Comicpalooza in Houston, TX, from May 23-26, 2014
Animation Celebration Galveston in Galveston, TX, from July 4-6, 2014
GenCon in Indianapolis, IN, from August 14-17
2 thoughts on “Episode 29: Character Types We Love to Hate, or The Deathknight’s Sword Fell Into My Pocket”
That’s well said. I love trying to make these kinds of concepts and characters work. If handled with care and forethought, any of these can work and work well in a game. Much like there are no stupid questions, there’s no such thing as a ‘bad’ idea just a poorly executed one.
It’s Broomfield, named for the Broomcorn grown around it.