Author Topic: Where do I choose Cleric domains?  (Read 1426 times)

Legacy_jmlzemaggo

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Where do I choose Cleric domains?
« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2011, 08:45:17 am »


               True. The convos... Male or female, not boths... What you're saying is actually making a little sense, Hip. For a change. Now that you made me think, of it, I did switch to a male charcater in 'A Harper's Tale', only because I was playing a woman but couldn't stand any longer having that hairy guy kissing me all the time and thought I would have had maybe a better time with a "girl" doing so. So I switched genders... but at the very beginning of Part II... which is not such an exploit anymore... the beginning being the only moment where the module "reads" you as a guy to know what henchy gender to offer you. 
Actually... I'm wrong here too, since Part II load automatically from the end of Part I. 
Okay, 'got it. I didn't use the Shia's trick here, just modified the girl PC to a male one, same class, in my "Leto but for Mac" application. 
What I was saying before would make some sense if I could remember switching PCs, names and genders right in a middle of a game without experiencing any problems, as you said with having your journal already written but for the former PC, and so on... 
The thing is I probably did it, as I like to try everything, but never ever feel any wrong about it. So it "might" work in the end, simplier than I could imagine. 

Aren't you supposed to be... by the way? '<img'>
               
               

               
            

Legacy_jadedjim

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Where do I choose Cleric domains?
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2011, 04:52:38 am »


               i wish deities had more of a role, as far as creation. no pun intended. i dont mean biblical creation, but character rather. at least a list you can choose from. kinda unlike custom races.

seems like domains, some classes, you'll get the same spells anyway yknow? idk. think race has something to do with it.
               
               

               


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Legacy_MrZork

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Where do I choose Cleric domains?
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2011, 06:33:58 am »


               There are a fair number of modules and persistent worlds that make use of your choice of deity during character creation. Some require it for clerics, paladins, champions of torm, etc. and it can have impacts on available spells, weapon feats, and so on. It's just up to the module builder to provide a list of deities you can choose, or to let you pick one via dialog (or other scripted means) later on. As I recall, the premium module Wyvern Crown of Cormyr made at  least some use of the deity choice. I played a wizard, and the effect was largely some dialogs and effects of a couple magic items. It's tough to tell what impact it would have had on a more deity-centric profession.
               
               

               


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« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2011, 10:15:34 pm »


               Actually, deities are a common vestige that many PWs use to nerf some of the most powerful, potentially-unbalanced classes like clerics, sorcs, wizzers.  By enhancing or nerfing spells (or even entire spell schools), these once-uber classes can be forced closer to mainstream.  More often used in RP-type apps, but not limited to them, it usually seems to work rather well once it has been implemented.  As an example, I know WoG has some of this going on their server.

Vanilla cleric domains are one of the reasons the cleric class has become the "one-size-fits-all" class for just about any multiclass toon imaginable.  Redefining them (domains) makes the game altogether more interesting, creative and less one-dimensional.