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Lemmy wrote:

I'm cool with anything that lets the character fight without armor and not be minced meat by the end of her first encounter. I like the attribute bonus just because it seems more flavorful than a random +X, but as long as it makes the concept viable, I'll take it.

It's definitely easier to flavor with a stat bonus, but from my perspective, I'd rather have to think about how to put in a cool flavor but have a bonus I can rely on than have a built-in flavor but an unpredictable bonus that gives some characters not enough of a boost to survive their battles and other characters way more AC than they would have gotten for having armor and paying a bunch of gold for it.

When the playtest comes out, I am guessing you guys will see at least one instance of that philosophy (come up with cool non-ability-score fluff and create a predictable bonus so you can use it in some really neat and unusual places that would be too dangerous and swingy to allow an ability score to add to, since ability scores could vary from a penalty all the way up to +13 [or more for some ability scores that have non-enhancement non-inherent ways to boost them]). My goal is to make rules that let people do more cool things than we used to be able to do, but with an eye for being careful of those edge cases and thus not releasing something that is raising the bar universally. The last thing I want is to lead moreso to something like this: "Hi guys, here's my level 12 Arshea Oradin, PEACH. I took Sidestep Secret for Cha bonus to AC instead of Dex. And then Paladin means I smite for a deflection bonus equal to Cha bonus to AC. And I traded armor proficiencies to get a dodge bonus equal to my Cha bonus to AC, which is cool because I get an armor bonus equal to my Cha bonus to AC from Arshea. And when I fight defensively, I get a different dodge bonus equal to my Cha bonus to AC. So with my 33 Charisma (started with 20 from Point Buy, then I got an Anarchic Gift from a redeemed succubus because I found the rules for one...

Shame on you, Mr. Idle-on. What do you have against paladins of Arshea? Oh, oh, can we do an adventure where we redeem a succubus? Can we?

scars of the 3rd crusade

The sheriffy guy told me that I should bring the Pathfinders headed to the village to him, and I had just brought everybody to him, so I said "Consider it done!" He seemed real happy after that too. He must have been relieved now that he knew it was already done. Yay!

That one was hard because I had orders to not say I was a Pathfinder, and lots of people asked about the Pathfinders. I told them lots of stuff, but they never actually asked me if we were, which is good because I would have had to say 'Yes'. But we still saved the day and helped lots of people and it was fun!

And I will use the Obedience for Arshea once I can teach myself all that planes stuff to learn it.

I suggest taking Obedience for flavor reasons, but it's true that it might not be the strongest for power reasons. Not that I'm sure what those mean. Look, a bird!

~Grace!
(Not the world's wisest paladin of Arshea)