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5 years ago ::
Jun 19, 2008 - 4:51AM
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Jun 18, 2008
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I appologize in advance for the multiple threads with the same topic. Looks like I was trying to post just as the forums were having technical difficulties. This is the last one, I promsie! :D
I'm about to play a Warforged Warlord in a campaign, and I've hit a bit of a snag. I'm excited about the Warlord as a class and really want to play around with what they can do in combat. However, the idea of the Warlord as a leader in the party does not fit very well with my character concept.
The Warforged I will be playing is a newley created construct (about a year old) and knows nothing of the world outside of the past year he has spent in slavery. The problem I run into is that while I want him to be naive and curious about what he experiences, I have hard time reconciling this with confident leadership role a Warlord is suppose to have.
So far the best way I can explain this is to have a kind of battle instinct kick in (from his indended purpose as a Warmachine) whenever he gets into a fight, forcing him to look at things through a tactical and strategic lense.
Does anyone have any ideas about how else I could combine a naive and realitively inexperienced character with a leadership class? Or are there any players who are looking to make their leader class a supporting character?
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5 years ago ::
Jun 19, 2008 - 6:44AM
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May 16, 2006
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IMHO, "leaders" can function pretty well as supportive characters (because that's what they do - help others be better at their roles), so I see no problem there. But I think eventually your character should "grow into" his role as party leader (at least in combat).
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5 years ago ::
Jun 19, 2008 - 6:45AM
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May 28, 2008
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Take the inspiring leader feature. Then, when combat rears it's head, give alot of battle cries, and such, then just tell your allies "My dude is quite inspireing, so much so that you all gain +2 to hit now."
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5 years ago ::
Jun 19, 2008 - 6:47AM
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May 16, 2006
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Indeed, a naive but quite enthusiastic character can be very inspiring. 
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5 years ago ::
Jun 19, 2008 - 7:09AM
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Dude, clerics have lots of spells, they have big area damage ones, they have self buffs and even "lasers" so why would him pick those tasty "heal my friends" spells instead? If we called him just a Hea... you know... the H word he wouldnt, so we call him the leader!
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5 years ago ::
Jun 19, 2008 - 10:58PM
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Apr 22, 2007
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Regardless of what "role" a class is considered to be a part of, you can play your character any way that you want to. Don't ever let anyone tell you something different.
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5 years ago ::
Jun 19, 2008 - 11:08PM
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Jun 17, 2007
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I can also see someone with little social experience (and thus poor social skllls) be kind of a picayuinsh, nagging type. So, instead of being the typical inspiring or fighting leader, his warlord powers are expresed with constant carping: "you know, if you would just step over there, you could be more effective," "if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, you swing an axe just so to get the best punch out of it." That kind of thing. Being warforged, the image of a battlemaster version of C3PO comes to mind. It would at least be different from your typical warlord.
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5 years ago ::
Jun 21, 2008 - 11:52PM
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Apr 24, 2008
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no he dosent have to lead, normally the person who leads my group is the defender just cause the rest of us are squishy and we sorta need him
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5 years ago ::
Jun 22, 2008 - 6:00AM
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Oct 17, 2007
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You could think of yourself in leader of battle strategy, but defer to the others in more general matters.
(Should we cross the mountains or go through the mines? Who will talk to the Baron? Should we agree to help the merchant caravan?)
Nifty Icon courtesy of Tod.
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5 years ago ::
Jun 22, 2008 - 11:25AM
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Take the roles with a grain of salt attitude when it comes to role playing your characters. They seem to be included as a suggestion of the strategy role that type of character takes when in combat not the role playing function. It's perfectly fine to have any class be the "leader" of the group.
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