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Swords Nitpick
TheMouse:
--- Quote from: KnightFerrous on April 21, 2010, 12:38:47 AM ---This is why one of the character ideas i had in order to play a knight of the cross without breaking cannon was having the Spear of Longinus reforged as a roman gladius with a red blade.
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The word you're looking for is, "Canon." I'm only being a pedant because...
Some lunatic could totally have used the metal from the spear of Longinus to forge a cannon with which to fight the forces of darkness. Think they're frightened of glowing holy swords? Imagine how frightened they'd be of a glowing holy cannon used to fire blessed grapeshot made of iron, silver, salt, and other such baneful substances.
Knight of the Cannon? I like that because of the pun.
luminos:
--- Quote from: exploding_brain on April 23, 2010, 02:47:48 PM ---I've always felt that champions of Buddhism/Eastern Martial Artists should have a slightly different set of powers, based around a high Discipline score, rather than a high Conviction score. Just a feeling about the flavor of that sort of archetype, and the portrayal of that tradition in fiction. YMMV.
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Give them powers based on a feeding dependency of chi/ki, that way their discipline determines how much of their powers they can safely use.
exploding_brain:
What would they need to feed on to recover their chi/ki?
luminos:
--- Quote from: exploding_brain on April 23, 2010, 07:56:37 PM ---What would they need to feed on to recover their chi/ki?
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"Feeding" would be meditation or something.
blues.soldier:
On a similarly related note... if you want to play a Knight of the Cross/Sword and keep the canon intact, it would be simple to have a blade forged with a piece of the True Cross in the handle. That, in my GMs brain, would be more than enough "oomph" to power a Sword of the Cross. In that manner, you could build a PC as a Knight of the Cross and not mess with the canon. After all, there are THIRTY Nickelheads. Makes sense that the Powers of Good would even the odds a little.
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