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Web DM what is the weird idol thing behind Pruitt?
I think the real question is: why is there a stripper pole behind Pruitt?
Kenshi is a great example of a pacifist fighter, he carries a reverse bladed sword so that when he draws it the sharp side points to him, he swore off killing and avoids violence when possible.
Do you guys have any sources on who Mr. Davis was talking about at 5:30?
Perhaps Roger Williams en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_(soldier)
Although he never fought for Spain, that was Thomas Stukley, but he was a traitor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stukley
There was a Thomas Sutcliffe who fits the bill, but he is from the Napoleonic wars not the Spanish ones en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sutcliffe_(soldier)
There could, of course be more that I don't know about, but the problem with Elizabethan England is that it is full of extraordinary people doing remarkable things, often brazenly, and so finding a particular one is hard lol
"I will pick up this piece of steel... and hit people with it! And make my name! I will carve my legacy across this land, and you will know me, and know fear!"
"...From the trail of the dead?"
"...eh, sure."
thats got to be the most Fighter thing I've ever heard.
The “metal eyed fighter” are basically the steel inquisitors from Brandon Sanderson mistborn. Phenomenal book series
I was gonna comment the same but then thought "someone ought to have mentioned this"
@@Plair0ne Someone stopping to consider whether someone else has already made a comment they were about to make? On *CZcams?* Blasphemy.
During Curse of Strahd I played a battle master fighter who fought with a bow as his go to. All through the adventure he would discuss how he wanted to assault Strahd's castle and rescue his wife and son. He was single minded about that as his end game, but used his ability as a nearly peerless archer (sharpshooter feat) to aid these outsiders who didn't know Barovia like he did. To avoid spoilers, at the end he handed his bow to the party Ranger and told him to guard Barovia against the darkness... then joined the spirits of his wife and child a few paces up the road... then disappeared into the afterlife. DM and I had discussed it and he asked "what if you didn't know you were dead all this time?" and it stuck.
That is... beautiful. That's why I love fighters. Yeah, they can be brutish thugs who hit things, but they can be so much more. They can be men with strong wills determined to change the world, their own limits be damned. They don't need magic. They carve their own path in life, and I think that's amazing.
What a great way to make that trope feel fresh again. Not that it's been used much outside of the infamous one, but it's easy to do it wrong
i jizzed in my pants
@@ussliberty8898 ok...
@@gingadreamurr6238 lol like that meme song, ya know? "When i found out Bruce Willis was deadvat the end of sixth sense, I JIZZED IN MY PANTS"
It's a stupid song, but funny lol
My favorite tenet for a pacifist fighter is "I don't start fights, I end them" Not outright looking for violence, but so darn good at it that nobody stands a chance.
"People generally enjoy doing what they are good at."
"I don't."
This was going to be my concept for a Oath of Redemption Paladin but you might have convinced me of fighter!
My friend played a gunslinger fighter in one of my games who was true neutral and in the end game montage he hired a group to build and sell weapons on either side of a war. His motto “somethings work, two of those things are gold and gunpowder”
Don’t violate the NAP,
One example of a growing fighter I love is Sokka from Avatar last airbender series. He starts barely able to use his boomerang. Then gets trained by various people throughout the series ending in a grand master fighter getting him to peak level. Allowing him to fight most benders by the end of it.
Also, he is an example of the Battle Master arquetype.
Sokka is the best battlemaster
That fight between Bron and the honourable knight is one of my favourite bits in GoT. The moment I really love is when someone offers him a shield and he goes “nah, nah” - because he has his own style, and he values the versatility of having a free hand over the protection of a shield. That’s what you want in a fighter character, the sense of combat as a deep and extensive art with countless different avenues to pursue. That’s how it rivals the magical classes for interestingness.
I know I’m very late, but after reading your comment I watched the scene and it was amazing.
One thing I'm surprised didn't come up is that the fighter class is robust enough to enable a lot of roleplaying concepts. A spell-less Ranger like Aragorn? I'd probably start with a fighter. An alleyway thug, or mafia enforcer? Rogue is good, but fighter works there too. Robin Hood? Again, a fighter. A devoted follower of a war god? Doesn't have to be a paladin.
I think the base class enables many ideas and character concepts, even among people that think the Fighter is boring. As one final example, in "The Princess Bride," The Man in Black, Inigo Montoya, Fezzik, Prince Humperdinck, and Count Rugen are all very different people with different skills, appearances, fighting styles, and personalities, but all would be Fighters.
But Aragorn knew healing magic.
@@Axefighterr nah, aragorn had a healer's kit
I would argue that the man in black and the six fingered man (count Rugen) are really rogues but yes, I see your point
It’s the lack of any restrictions for their character that makes them great. They can have lived basically any life and have any personality while being a fighter. Other classes can be too, but less so. Wizard comes pretty close to the fighter” lack of restrictions, but they do need to have a tie to their learning of magic in some way.
Conversely, warlocks are very restrictive in what the character fits into, but you can do a lot of amazing things within those restrictions. They always need a patron and some reason that the patron and character are bonded, but there are so many different ways you can take that.
Say you are a human fighter and people will groan and call you generic. Then you come in with Mr wiggins, a senile old man wielding a rapier with tattered leather armor with the dueling fighting style, then pick battle master, wreck shit, and the party will be bewildered as to how you are a better duelist then the swash buckler rogue
There was a book called the Afghan Campaign that I read a while back that takes place during Alexander the Great's conquest. There was a character in there that was a soldier and was known as a warrior poet. The main character asks him how he can be a warrior and a poet, and the character responds with "How can you be a warrior and not be a poet?" Basically he uses poetry and the arts to distract him from all the killing they do. I thought that was really cool and I've wanted to do a character like that
In one Pathfinder game I played a paladin of Shelyn, goddess of love, the arts and other such flowery things. She used a glaive as it was Shelyn's signature weapon, but she also did calligraphy and used to be a blacksmith before becoming a paladin, and made an oath to Shelyn that for everything she destroyed she would create two things of beauty to compensate.
I'm currently making a former soldier who deserted after the atrocities he's witnessed in war, and to help him cope, he uses woodcarver's tools to make little trinkets and toys that gives to children, as his own little way of atoning for his sins.
If you want a real life, current day example of a warrior poet, find Jocko Willink. He’s a gorilla of a man, a retired SEAL, and he’s very introspective about everything he thinks about. Podcast, several books, and a slew of other things, get to know this guy.
@@rustyshackle8000 That sound adoralbel
Hey guys, I absolutely love this in addition to all the other great content on your channel.
I actually have a visual impairment, the cause due to trauma at 18, not genetic. So I used to see normally.
I had to relearn everything in my life. I got into lifting heavy weights, learned to grow out of my shy shell, taught myself ‘musical instruments, college etc.
Point is, I think those that have have been dealt a bad hand, in life, be it birth defects, addiction, disabilities, abuse and so on- at some point they have a choice to make. Am I going to just accept my fate and wallow in my grief or am I going to pick what pieces up that I have left and demand more for myself out of life. The disenfranchised are fertile soil for the makings of a fighter.
Now I can’t speak for everyone, but some things you might find interesting:
- Going from able-bodied to not is a massive hit to your charisma. You feel less than. I’ve struggled with this.
- It can be hard for me to read emotions on faces. Sometimes people’s intentions or feelings are a mystery to me. It can create distance and mistrust to your fellow human (or creature). Audible cues and words matter more now. Since I’m going full audio or smell, I notice details that other’s don’t at times.
- It is very possible, when not in check, to be bitter of the “normal” folks who have all their eyes, hands and toes. But realizing that this impairment lit a literal fire inside of you, you start to see it as a gift at times. Other times, a curse.
Conversely, it’s possible hard struggles made you more empathetic and caring, especially for the underdog.
- Having to rely on others is a necessary evil. Be it reading text or guiding down stairs. This can further worsen an inferiority complex but also develop n unquenchable desire and drive to be fiercely independent.
Anyway, just thought you would find it interesting if you two or any others would want to try making a character with such impairments.
Thank you,
Kozmo7
How are you doing today?
I didnt know that trauma could affect your ability to see
But you seems like a person who been throught alot
@@esbeng.s.a9761
Hey there. I’m still fighting!
Trauma as in, physical trauma. As opposed to a genetic issue or a disease of some kind. They usually classify anything that hits the eye or head or cause physical damage as trauma in the medical field. As in physical trauma.
Thank you to anybody that liked my post! I hope it helps somebody out there in some way.
"why did you become a Fighter?"
"it allows me to release my chaotic evil side, and I even get paid and praised for wrecking havoc! that's quite awesome!"
"Because I get to kill people"
"You mean bad people, right?"
"Eh, sure."
That’s actually one of my barbarian characters- worships a murder god, gets paid to kill things, doesn’t get ostracized as long as he only kills bad people.
A concept I had for a figter was a former soldier, just the average levyman seargeant. Has a spear, a shield, a mace, backup dagger and a cheap mail shirt and helmet. He didn't fight for honor. He didn't fight for glory. He fought because he was told to by the local baron and was given a few silvers at the end of it. Now he is a local mercenary on the side of farming wheat.. He guards the caravans and local important people who pay, so he can help run his farm. now the party payed him a few silvers and he's an adventurer.
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One of the best rp choices I made for my fighter was being elderly. Really play up your aches and pains, but you KNOW battle
Fighter casts sword!
It was super effective!
I'm a sword magician. I use my sword as a spellfocus to turn a creature in 2 halves of a creature!
Muscle Wizard casts fist?
I really look up to Jim as a DM.
I love these class role play videos. I can't wait to see the Monk episode. You guys are doing great!
ironman21389 Pruitts gonna go ham on that one, seeing as he himself has at least taken a dip into monk IRL. It'd be funny if they switched seats for that one
Monk fighter. That's where it's at.
Lee Bosch given that fighter is all about weapon training, and monk is all about not needing weapons, I think that the only monk/fighter that works is a kensai.
+Alan Brockhaus clearly you haven't heard of kama weapons... nothing was more broken back in the day of second edition and further than a monk fighter weapon master of kamas. except maybe a druid dwarven defender barbarian tank that had dragon shape. equaled high AC health and ridiculous damage reduction. if you did take damage it was a small amount and rarely happened.
100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10km run
EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!
Don't forget to eat breakfast, a banana will do fine.
Quivering palm
For 3 years.
I mean, when you don't do much else that's actually surprisingly easy. But don't even try it whilst working a job:D
Shut the fuck up no you dont and you know it
Spanish subscriber here. I already love you guys, but after that "certain amount of COJONES" you guys are my favorite rpg show. Period. Sí, joder.
I know this is "muy tarde" but "Bienvenido."
Olé, olé, olé los caracoles
There's an anime (Rurouni Kenshin) that tells the story of a retired legendary swordsman, who uses a reverse sided katana, just to *not* kill anyone. I think this is a good example of a pacifist warrior.
I was just about to prove my age by brining up the great Himura Kenshin
Um ... if you wanted not to kill anyone, why put an edge on the sword at all? Just leave it blunt, and maybe sharpen the very tip just in case you ever do run into an extraordinary circumstance where you have to kill. For the matter of that, just carve a Bokken out of oak and use that as a sword. It still gives you the same ability to defend yourself and bash people on the head if they deserve it.
It's been a while since I've seen Rurouni Kenshin. If I had to guess, he keeps a sharpened edge to his sword for the possibility that he might one day need to break his pacifism and kill. It almost happened, as I recall.
The weapon itself has a reverse blade because in Japaneze single draw single kill martial combat he can still fight as he was originally trained without fear of killing again
I did mention sharpening the tip for the odd chance that you might need it. Or you could use the blunt sword and just carry a sharp dagger. Also you can still kill with a Bokken, just not as quickly, and there are stories of people so skilled that their (wooden) swords could actually cut just like steel. Which is probably hogwash but no more ridiculous than the cloudbuster sword.
"Knows the symbology behind those symbols." Man, I heard Dafoes character from Boondock Saints screaming "Symbolism!".
With heavy armor 8 use dex as a dump stat and RP it as a man who takes life head on. The direct approach with a good side of brute force. Combined with his 14 intelligence and battle master sub class, and then adding Soldier or Mercenary veteran background and taking cartography tools creates an army commander to be reckoned with.
It's my favorite class. Why? Because they are the underdog. When a Wizard defeats a Dragon you see "magic beating magic", but when a Fighter does it you see a human beating a monster.
I always wanted to run a fighter like a character from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, just so much flavor.
Them mentioning the sphinx immediately made me get the idea of a warrior that wants the sphinx's treasure, but they don't know the answer to it's philosophical question, and is wandering the world looking for the answer.
Always liked going through Martial Manuscripts to get inspiration for attacks or weapon combinations. It's amazing how many uses you can get out of a longsword if you make a compelling case using what you know. Plus gives you the real feel of being a master of arms.
I love your videos, it's inspired me both as a player and as a DM. Good concise but funny and well paced content. Informative and hey, those thumbnail pics always pull me in. LOL
a fighter’s best mental stat is charisma
you can get really really far out of combat with enough Cha, social skills, and good RP
always loved the noble background for that with persuasion and the position of privilege feature being so hard to replicate
plus a dexterity battle master with Martial Adept is the best build for a swashbuckler fantasy
A T Or a knight background variant because that's just how you have to have your medieval fantasy
I played an inigo Montoya (from process bride) kinda fighter who is a battlemaster fencer
Everything you can do with Charisma, you can do with Strength, brute force and reputation that reflects respect (even get information with torture and other evil approaches).
You can either talk people into helping or siding with you, or you are a force as a leader that all stand behind.
In that case its like a leader of a horde that rules by strength, commands are orders and people follow out of discipline and respect (and somewhat fear if they dont have anything else).
If the leader falls, the army crumbles and chaos spreads.
Everything you can do with persuasion you can also archive with Intimidation and threatening them, especially if you can back that up with brute force if its needed.
Charisma certainly works for everyone in a Role playing way, but for D&D there are classes that are much bigger into Charisma than a Fighter would ever be (Paladin, Sorcerer, etc.).
ThisNameIsBanned for the Enemy sure, but for the party it does work we’ll especially at low levels when guards are still a threat and you have no real strength or reputation
ThisNameIsBanned it’s easy to say that the hobgoblins bully the regular goblins, but the party can’t bully Kong’s and queens and town guard and nobility. You can’t flex on someone and convince them you didn’t steal from them or persuade a good or neutral aligned dragon to give you a ride
Hey Pruitt, it's "Demons Run when a good man goes to war." No crits, love you guys.
Best speech by Matt Smith. "I want you to say, 'run away'. Those exact words, 'run away.' " It's a lot shorter than most Doctor speeches you find on CZcams, but it is still awesome.
I'd also like to give massive credit to Peter Capaldi Doctor's "Sit down and talk" scene.
God. Damn. Chills.
Xena the warrior Pruitt
18:29 "'Symbology'? Well, now that Duffy's relinquished his 'King Bonehead' crown, I see we have an heir to the throne! 'Symbolism', the word you're looking for is 'symbolism'." -Agent Paul Smecker
Symbology the study of Symbo.... Its first grade SpongeBob
I looked though the comments just to find this. Was not disappointed.
Boondock Saints reference and I'm like YUP THESE ARE MY PEOPLE
"I thought to myself 'I could try to learn all that ancient language chanting and bright light throwing tomfoolery, or I could stab the monsters with my blade. Keep up the hurling of fire, good mage, and I will stand between that wyrmling and yourself."
- Jonah of Verikos, Fighter
"We play DnD, we've made our peace wit that." LOVE IT!!!
The Romance of Three Kingdoms is a great inspiration source for creating a personality for your fighter
Thanks guys for mentioning Berserk! I am so into Berserk(watch the old series in my pre-teens/early teens, when it was just a couple of years old so I'm treading on memory lane) at the moment! I want to start a small campaign with only fighters in a low magic but demon-infested setting. Not choosed any specific system yet though. :)
Fighters and Rogues are my favorite classes overall, even though I might seem to be a more caster type by my personality, but I prefer down-to-earth characters. Less(Generic) is more. More room to provide a more human experience than supernatural. That's why I really like low magic/sword & sorcery settings, just because of that fact. :)
if you like fighter/rogue types in a magic setting, and you like to read, you might very much enjoy the tales of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser by Fritz Leiber, along with the better known Conan and the other works of Robert E. Howard, and many others, they were very much inspirational to the creation of the original rogue class
for a more modern take on a rogue, even a scoundrel in the likes of Han Solo, but Better, try The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison, any of them, prepare to laugh
Berserk!
I never did finish it. I would rent it, trigun and cowboy bebop from my local video shop in highschool. Trigun was the only one i actually finished
Ghostfather Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser is the most D&D series I've ever read. It's so much fun.
Also Goblin Slayer.
Pruitt threw the idea of a person sensing only metal actually references pretty cool ability from Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson.
I thought the same thing, even the spikes in the eyes.
I've been waiting for this video and it's really good! When I saw the 35 minute duration I got real comfy to hear you guys talk about my favorite class
Man watching these are always the best both insightful for the player and the DM/GM keep it up guys
Regarding that Character conecpt at the end, See Steel Inquisitors from the Mistborn series.
Pruitt! If you were looking for an example of a fighter-like character blessed with essentially metal vision while being blinded, I have the perfect example of it in literature. They are called Steel Inquisitors and they are from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. Skipping a lot of the background explanation/book lore, they essentially have railroad sized steel spikes through their eyes. But it/their magical abilities give them the power to see magnetic metals so finely that they can basically see like Daredevil. They see the trace metals in everything, essentially painting the world in blue lines. If you were interested in great fantasy, I'd recommend any of Brandon Sanderson's works, especially those set in the "Cosmere".
Best example of a historical Fighter: "Mad Jack" Churchill. British soldier who brought a freaking claymore LONGSWORD to the beaches of Normandy. Only confirmed LONGBOW kill of World War 2! Got captured by the Nazis, escaped, couldn't find his unit, got recaptured ON PURPOSE rather than abandon his comrades. The Nazis found him as he approached their position wearing a kilt and blasting on his bagpipes. He was really pissed that the war had ended by the time he was rescued.
Can u imagine??? Seeing that mad fucking Scotsman in a straight up Kilt with a set of bagpipes on his back charging up the beach at ur wimpy hitler-youth ass with a huge fucking SWORD!??!?! Boiiiiiii!!!!!
All I can say is... God save the Queen, God save Mad Jack Churchill.
Miles Main Jack Churchill wasn’t Scottish, his parents were English and he was born in Ceylon (Modern Day Sri Lanka) or Hong Kong. Also Scottish Claymore refers to two separate types of swords, the one your probably thinking of is the big two handed kind, but in actuality Jack Churchill went into battle with the single handed basket hilt kind, it’s an understandable mistake.
Inquisitor Thomas i was misinformed as to his origins it seems, my thanks! Honestly the baskethilt is probably scarier, cuz he could probs dual wield with a pistol! :D
That's an epic story rofl
There was some crazy shit that went down in those conflicts, I recall there was an Irish officer who ordered his men to retreat, he stayed behind covering them with a machine gun, then when the enemy stopped pursuit he charged the building they were hiding in with a rifle and a shovel and sent the enemy running. Clear proof that being really angry is a soldier's greatest asset.
Hell yes...omg...
Great video as always guys. Thanks for covering one of my favorite classes and showing us how to portray it differently.
for insight into the samurai mind you may find Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings to be helpful, and, of course, the penultimate treatise on combat in eastern (Chinese) philosophy, The Art of War by Sun Tzu
I've liked the fighter because of two reasons one the background can be anything from being a noble to a commoner urchin to merchant and two just being normal you don't have spells (unless you're a eldritch knight) or have supernatural rage or relies on stealth and deception it's just you and some enchanted items against the supernatural world and I find that awesome.
day late but worth it. fighters are fun to make in general. Ex-Soldier/ Ex-guard is a good background for a Fighter
Matt I agree. My dwarf fighter is a former military officer who retired after accidentally getting his entire unit (including his best friend) killed in a disastrous battle maneuver. He’s become a mercenary due to a need for money and a lack of any skills other than combat.
Brave in few languages (such as Portuguese) keep their original meaning of Angry; Valiant means literally Courageous; many praises we have today originally meant "you can really go there and kill a bunch of people! kudos!"
I created a noble background fighter who was essentially a lord. However he was incredibly devoted to his house and family to the point that he murdered a member of a rival house to protect a younger sibling. To avoid all out war his family, with heavy hearts, banished him. Now he’s essentially a sell sword with no other purpose other than to kill things for a bag of coins. He’s a dirty fighter though and isn’t above tripping, spitting, biting, and the classic pocket sand. He’s a battle master in the sense that he’s mastered the more brutal and dirty side of battle, so things like fairness, honor, chivalry, and mercy are all pointless to him. Case and point: If you aren’t blood, prepare to bleed.
I like the miniature on the wall, its a summoner of tzeentch I think, its awesome
Damn, this episode is out late, but I've really looked forward to it!
I just realised after about a year and a half of being subscribed to you guys that web DM is a play on of web MD.
A blind swordsman would also be great if they had a familiar or humunculus to offer their own senses!
wow CZcams's notification feature is finally put to use!
I love that modron idea as the intro/hook to some sort of battle/adventure.
Of all the characters I have made, fighters are the one class I always come back to.
And by far the character I am having to most fun making is a halfling cavalier. He was dissowned by his wealthy family to join the army and becomes a knight before he gets discharged and becomes an adventurer.
Geeko170 I really want to make a halfling cavalier with dual weilder and mounted combatant and ride into battle on the wizard whilst dual weilding lances.
Should ride an ostrich.
9:00 yes, one of the interesting things about Japanese history is although the Samurai were held up as paragons of virtue, and ninja clans were all about deception and lies, in practise the Samurai lords were highly political and broke allegiances as they saw fit, were as the Ninja clans were renowned for keeping their word and being honourable.
makes you think.
misomiso Thats a bit innacurate, Ninja didn't really have clans, it was an occupation not a rank or title. They were essentially just intel specialists. They could operate alongside or independant of Samurai equally well.
@@paulrudd1483 to add to your point since samurai fell more in the line of a rank you could have a ninja samurai
Ninjas were absolutely loyal... to the money.
@@paulrudd1483 Ninja were recon. Shinobi were the killers.
Best time of the week!
Love the flasks and beakers behind Pruitt, cool!
8:50. This here is to me a perfect example of why alignment is an important character mechanic! This also illustrates why I like to dm it that if you do actions that are off alignment you can't use your character skills, and you don't gain experience points for it.
Yet another episode that has inspired me, i have so many ideas now...
What's nice is that blindswordsmen is now a thing in Tasha's. One of the fighting styles is called Blind Fighting
Loved the idea of the Modron War-accountants (warcountants?) marching up to the opposing army and projecting the losses that will happen in an upcoming battle. Then suggesting that both sides just incinerate that percentage right away. Great mix of intimidating and satirical.
Oh Pruitt that's soo cool! A fighter blessed with metal eyes that can only see metal. Oooh I want to use that now but I don't want to steal the concept but its such a good idea!
I made a noble knight (fighter battle master) who named his sword "Etiquette" so he follows both the knight's etiquette and the way of his sword.
Witty, I like it. One could also name it Chivalry for a knights setting. (Because only one rule of chivalry was about women. The rest were about warfare and kicking ass.)
I fence competitively and I made a Triton Fighter that used a rapier and had battle master and used parry and riposte all the time like a fencer. Loved it thematically
I wrote up a tabaxi fighter (Persian headed cat for hilarity) he knows dwarven because he was raised by 2 brother dwarfs who run the town blacksmith and butcher. They took him in when he was young.
The 2 brothers had a friend in the army who took the time to train Cyrus (my tabaxi) and later entrusted him with their dagger that he received at the end of the war in a language he doesn’t know. Later it’d be revealed that during Cyrus’s travels the inscription says a phrase he always heard his mentor use. (Haven’t decided what the phrase is yet)
When they brought up instructors all I thought of was Teal'c and master Bra'tac from Stargate SG1.
This is all really good for paladins too, especially the part about the dichotomy between virtuous knight and killer
Anyone else hear the blind swordsman with metal eyes who can see metal and just think,
Wait Mistborn?
My magic power is called “incredible violence”. I cast it by taking a spiked club and “cast” the spell till my enemy stops moving
Likes for the Berserk talk!
One thing the guys touched on that makes interesting concepts for fighters is the transitional period of the Samurai, from being the military class (i.e. the only people who were allowed to go to war) to a more symbolic and judiciary role- it's that latter phase where a lot of the romanticised 'honourable samurai' thing comes from, but imagine being a fighter in a society where "is really good at killing things" no longer entitles you to status and prestige, and you have to find something new to define you or you'll fade into obscurity with the rabble.
Woohoo! New episode!
I like “I don’t hit first” pacifism for character concepts a lot. It gives you a decision you have to make probably every game. Any threat you notice early becomes an ideological thought process.
Love the idea of just a mass murderer by any standard but under the umbrella of a warrior who likes to fight. Awesome video!
I’m starting as a half-Orc fighter too, right now! Just lvl 3. I rolled solid starting stats.
That was such a great intro!!!
25:00 Reminds me of psynergy from Golden Sun. Yeah it can be used for healing and magic, but it comes out in subtle ways like psynergy fueled critical hits, too.
I love that example about Braun and the Sir Vardes, especially because afterword he readily acknowledges that Sir Vardes was an honorable, and perhaps he was the better man, but that isn't how you win a fight.
Great New episode guys
My Halfling Rune Knight Fighter has an instructor who is a Blind Dwarf Seer who lives in the mountains with Stone Giants.
A good example of a fighter who's a passifist is Thorfinn from the manga Vinland Saga. He starts out as a ferocious warrior who eventually gives up fighting, but soon realizes he has to fight, and must learn how to temper that passifism.
Another great inspiration would be le Chevalier du Bayard. Guy was a badass. Known as "The knight without fear and beyond reproach," he himself preferred to be known as "le bon chevalier," "the good knight," a name he was given for being such a happy and kind person. He held a bridge against 200 men, BY HIMSELF. Check out the painting titled "Bayard at the Battle of Garigliano." One of my favorite historical figures.
i just noticed that crown royal bag. You guys are classy.
So many great ideas!
I LOVE my 14 int fighter.
Great video, guys!
Can’t wait to see the Rogue video.
When I first started my DnD campaign days back around 2006 I went with the classic idea of fighter for hire but with somewhat questionable yet reasonable morales,
Fighters were super vanilla in 1st ed, still pretty vanilla in 2e, but I loved what they did in 3e by making them the feat monsters, allowing insane levels of variety.
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Seigfreid of Norse mythology is a great fighter character
Nothung! Nothung! Nothung!
Thank you for all the content! I've watched and learned a bunch over the months.
A small correction: As I understand it Muhammad Ali wasn't really a pacifist, he just wouldn't participate in an unjust war. He refused to aid in what he saw as illegitimate invasion of Vietnam, especially while African Americans were being oppressed in the US. As he said, "Shoot them for what? They never called me n****r... If I'm going to die, I'll die right here fighting you."
I read a biography on Joan of Arc for a class, and in comparing her to typical knights of the time it contrasted her to a knight (his name escapes me) who was so distraught about surrendering to someone of a lower rank that he knighted his opponent on the battlefield. I can't wait to use it.
I hear a lot of people jump to Fighter anytime a melee character is envisioned. But there are other melee classes, and the Fighter has specific traits...
No armor might be a Barbarian or Monk, not a Fighter. Fighters are technicians who use advanced tools.
Melee only? No, Fighters can specialize in ranged attacking, but they’re still going to take advantage of armor. Even when magic blurs the lines, there isn’t much crossover between a Ranger and Fighter.
These specific traits can lead into backstory too. The Fighter is unlikely to have an Urchin, Sage, or Acolyte background, as they’ve received martial training and equipment. They may have faith and loyalty, but they’re not Paladins, so there may be some moral flexibility or a mercenary streak. Also, somewhat like a Warlock, however a Fighter gains his training and equipment, he may be beholding to his benefactor or original herald.
The fact that a Fighter is a technically trained warrior should separate him from the others with pointy bits of steel. He does sneak or rage or pray to win. He wades in with superior skill and gear.
I am ABSOLUTELY stealing Pruit's blind character idea and making that an NPC in my game. The Modron plot hook from Davis at the end....perfection.
Speaking of Song of Ice and Fire for Fighter characters, an idea that slips under the radar from the expanded history is the hedge knight. Someone who is a knight with an honour system and their training but also travels the country in search of work and hoping to be taken in by a noble house. It’s a very d&d adventurer character.
The only universal thing about chivalry that knights adhered to was loyalty to their liege lord. Everything else is secondary or later romantic retcons. Obviously the king wanted knights to be loyal to the crown, priests wanted a pious devotion to the church, peasants who were ruled by these knights desired a certain standard of treatment, gentlewomen desired to be treated with a certain level of respect for their birth status. But when push comes to shove, you side with the guy who is paying you. That allowed knights to be very pragmatic.
Another thing is that massacres after sieges were similar in principle to a primitive form of the cold war MAD detterant. Castles that are besieged were given an ultimatum: surrender and be spared, or stand against us and be destroyed. Sieges were costly endeavours for an attacker, so if you could get away with not wasting time and resources by having the enemy surrender, that was great. And if it was an empty threat, no one would ever have an incentive to surrender to you. So that is why chivalrous knights would effectively commit what we would consider war crimes and not have too much of a crisis of conscience.
Generally speaking, it was deemed a 'respectable' siege to hold out as hard as possible until the walls were either brieched or the gate was taken. For the most part, if the besieged people surrendered at that moment, there wasn't a massacre.
one of my recent characters is an eldritch knight fighter whos favorite spell is using their longsword to cast inflict wounds
Love Pruitt's shirt !!
I had a blind monk/seer who lost her sight at young age from a corrupting vision. We used blind sense as a sight ruling and she was so fun to play, kicked so much ass.