{"id":41139,"date":"2014-02-17T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/17\/there-are-no-bad-character-classes-just-bad-oh-never-mind.html"},"modified":"2014-02-17T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:32:12","slug":"there-are-no-bad-character-classes-just-bad-oh-never-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/17\/there-are-no-bad-character-classes-just-bad-oh-never-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"There are no bad character classes, just bad &#8230; oh, never mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">A lot of these are, from what I can tell, needing to add pizzazz to modules \/ settings by adding character class variant, combined with D&amp;D&#39;s commercial crunchiness. So you can&#39;t have some druid spells that are extensible to arctic settings &#8212; you have to have a <i>completely unique<\/i> Arctic Druid class. \u00a0You can&#39;t have a fighter who&#39;s a mine slaver as background, you have to have the brand-new\u00a0_Mine Rowdy_ class. \u00a0Keen!<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t Stan)\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OZIykNiTgg7cmFQTrmycu_eq3TDfaNgq05jDQmlJLWuH0-_i5TdaTJwUXtF-eG-aJ-8pQ_3JAViEDwvajcdd8uAONv51LdK03q84Lr1M6aDatFuBOSu7Q8qd2UJ4LiBz=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/the-24-most-embarrassing-dungeons-dragons-character-1524448977?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&#038;utm_source=io9_twitter&#038;utm_medium=socialflow'>\u200bThe 24 Most Embarrassing Dungeons &#038; Dragons Character Classes<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Fighters. Mages. Priests. Rogues. These are the primary four<br \/>\ncharacter classes in Dungeons &#038; Dragons, and they have served the<br \/>\nrole-playing game well for over 30 years. But there are many others in addition<br \/>\nto these \u2014 some awesome, some weird, and some just ridiculous. Here are 24 real<br \/>\nD&#038;D specialty classes that should force any player to make a saving throw<br \/>\nagainst shame.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'><span class='gpb-reshare'><br \/>This post has been reshared 1 times on <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/YNuduECSf7o' target='_new'>Google+<\/a><br \/><\/span> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/YNuduECSf7o' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of these are, from what I can tell, needing to add pizzazz to modules \/ settings by adding character class variant, combined with D&amp;D&#39;s commercial crunchiness. So you can&#39;t have some druid spells that are extensible to arctic settings &#8212; you have to have a completely unique Arctic Druid class. \u00a0You can&#39;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/17\/there-are-no-bad-character-classes-just-bad-oh-never-mind.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There are no bad character classes, just bad &#8230; oh, never mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27539,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun-in-comic-books-at-least.html","url_meta":{"origin":41139,"position":0},"title":"There is nothing new under the sun (in comic books, at least)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Apr-12 10:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, wait, this was \"X-Men vs. the Avengers,\" rather than \"Avengers vs. the X-Men.\" That's because then the X-Men were hot, and now Marvel is flogging their Avengers movie.And it was back in Magneto's Magenta period.Actually, it wasn't a bad storyline, as I recall, though that wasn't a good era\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20778,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/book-review-unperfect-souls-by-mark-del-franco-2010.html","url_meta":{"origin":41139,"position":1},"title":"Book Review: &#8220;Unperfect Souls&#8221; by Mark Del Franco (2010)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Apr-11 7:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Unperfect Souls by Mark Del Franco My rating: 4 of 5 stars Del Franco has the fantasy noir schtick down: dark, depressing, tortured, a sullied knight fighting dishonor and personal conflicts yet still trying to do what's right. 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