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Its my Dad's birthday, and to celebrate I'm putting the Direlock on sale for the rest of the month.
Right now you can get the Direlock 40% off at d20PFSRDstore - also part of d20PFSRDstores' awesome Shocktoberfest sale promotion;
AND at
DrivethruRPG.
I hope to have the same sale price here at Paizo soon if possible...
And in even more excellent news, I'm giving away two copies of the Direlock PDF absolutely free to the first two posters who can tell me why they'd want to use the Direlock in their campaign, either as a GM or a player, what race it would be and what weapon they would use as their dire weapon. By all means, read Enzeitgeist's longest ever class review in two parts - Part I AND Part II that gave the Direlock 5 stars and seal of approval rating to get a feel for the class.
Look for more from Forest Guardian Press, well if not soon then hopefully by Christmas.
Thanks,
Morgan Boehringer
Creative Director
Forest Guardian Press.
Wow, this is an awesome looking review. Never heard of this guy before, will have to give him a try!
As I'm generally a GM, I'd likely use this guy as an NPC, he makes a nice bounty hunter type, with all his abilities that seem to focus around shifting around debuffs and restrictions on others. Doubly so since he's so good at tangling with casters, and the two casters in my game are both deeply entwined with the politics of the fey courts. Since I'm running Kingmaker, he'd likely be a big burly fey type - a satyr or grimstalker are the first two to come to mind, probably with a greataxe or waraxe as his Dire Weapon to get across that whole "lord of the wood" feel.
Nice one Orthos! It is a complex Base Class, but I think you'll find the synergies of his anti-caster abilities rewarding! As for flavor, the playtesters "tangled" with a half-orc Direlock in fetish eelskin armor wielding an adamantium naginata corralling two festrogs on leashes in an AP added encounter (Broken Moons IIRC). I'm sending you a PM regarding your preferences for where you want delivery from...
One free copy of the Direlock to go folks!!!
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better hurry up people, this ones a steal.
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I would love to use this class as a enemy against my party, to destroy the casters and have an utter hatred towards them. I would use the enemy as one who had a tragic history of someone who had lost a relative who was the person they loved the most. I know this is usually a boring story of oh I lost my parents as a child and now I am angry, but that is not how I would do it. I would say that the NPC lost maybe his grandmother who raised him during the summers, who he became very close too. His grandmother was murdered by a band of cultist magic users who killed many civilians, and he was never able to recover. His fractured mind did not want to survive with out his grandmother, but then he was taught a way to combat and counter magic. He studied day and night to try and exact revenge on the cultists. In doing so, he lost more and more of who he really was. It just wasn't the cultists any more that he hated, it was most forms of magic. His beliefs turned him into a person with a Zealot like belief.
This is at least how I would play a enemy Direlock against my party. It might be a little cliche, but I think it sounds cool.
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I would love to use this class as a enemy against my party, to destroy the casters and have an utter hatred towards them. I would use the enemy as one who had a tragic history of someone who had lost a relative who was the person they loved the most. I know this is usually a boring story of oh I lost my parents as a child and now I am angry, but that is not how I would do it. I would say that the NPC lost maybe his grandmother who raised him during the summers, who he became very close too. His grandmother was murdered by a band of cultist magic users who killed many civilians, and he was never able to recover. His fractured mind did not want to survive with out his grandmother, but then he was taught a way to combat and counter magic. He studied day and night to try and exact revenge on the cultists. In doing so, he lost more and more of who he really was. It just wasn't the cultists any more that he hated, it was most forms of magic. His beliefs turned him into a person with a Zealot like belief.
This is at least how I would play a enemy Direlock against my party. It might be a little cliche, but I think it sounds cool.
A cliche' is such for a reason after all ;)
That is a great way to reason the mechanic's inception, and I love a cautionary tale on the vagaries of revenge too vigourously sought. And I much rather a cliche than the old "I'm a bad guy because I'm bad!" Chris, I'll PM you in a minute regarding your free PDF - just having some family time here.
The Direlock is on sale at Paizo.com as well!
Thanks Liz! That's right folks, till the end of October!!!
@Chris Zank - PM sent!
Everybody else: don't forget you can get the Direlock 40% off all through the rest of October at Paizo, d20PFSRDStore and DrivethruRPG!!!
Thanks to my Dad's birthday, and d20PFSRDStore's fantastic Shocktoberfest promotion!!!