{"id":12170,"date":"2017-12-05T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/?p=12170"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:29:42","slug":"the-workshop-mechanics-dont-define-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/the-workshop-mechanics-dont-define-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Workshop – Mechanics Don’t Define You"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently read a forum post where a poster came down rather hard on 5th<\/sup> Edition Dungeons and Dragons. He was rather up front with the fact that perhaps the game system was just not for him but then started to make what I feel were some rather unfair assertions about the game\u2019s design that I don\u2019t feel come anywhere near the mark \u2013 it\u2019s designed to be about killing and looting instead of really roleplaying and that the game (and especially combat) was filled with bland mechanics. (If that was really their experience, I would wager that they probably had a pretty bad DM.) There were also a number of digs at the term \u201cusing your imagination\u201d as if it were somehow a negative thing? I dunno, and I really don\u2019t want to pile on the person for this post but I really have to start to question if he\u2019s in the correct hobby.<\/p>\n

Now, the biggest issue I took with the post was the claim that character creation was simply \u201cchoosing an archetype\u201d and there was nothing else unique about it. Your 5th<\/sup> level Fighter with the Champion archetype would be exactly the same as my 5th<\/sup> level Fighter with the Champion archetype. As someone who has looked at the character creation rules for just a few posts on this very website, this sentiment actually made me pretty mad, and I was finally able to crystallize it into a single, easy to remember mantra \u2013<\/p>\n

\u201cYour character is not your class. But your class is a part of your character.\u201d<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/math-lady-confused-lady<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(It\u2019s kind of an \u201cevery square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square\u201d sort of thing. Maybe. I dunno, I was pretty bad at geometry. The proof may be in the pudding, but it definitely wasn\u2019t on my final in that class. Anyway, where was I? Oh yes)<\/p>\n

There is no way around the fact that choosing what class you want to play in Dungeons and Dragons is a big thing. No other decision you make has nearly as much mechanical weight to it. Do you want your character to be a fighter or a spellcaster? Does arcane or divine magic sound more up your alley? Do you want a lot of weird and esoteric class features, or are you happy with a few solid and easy to remember things? Is there a class that simply sounds like more fun than any of the others? Yes, the class you choose will be with you for the entirety of your character career (regardless of any multiclassing you do \u2013 you were still your 1st<\/sup> level class first), but it doesn\u2019t define your character. It defines a part of them.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t believe that this poster was being that disingenuous to the game to where he would simply ignore that above axiom. I do believe that he was looking at the mechanics of the class. Yes. Every Monk gets Martial Arts at 1st<\/sup> level and gets a reserve of Ki energy starting at 2nd<\/sup>. Every Fighter gets an extra attack at 5th<\/sup> level, and a Barbarian just isn\u2019t a barbarian without a heaping helping of unfettered Rage at 1st<\/sup> level. Those things don\u2019t change from character to character, it\u2019s true. But if that is the basis of your argument, it tells me that you aren\u2019t interested in playing the game \u2013 you\u2019re interested in playing the system, which tells me that you\u2019ve lost the point of the entire thread.<\/p>\n

Just the night previous to finding this thread I had done some thought exercises (that you\u2019ll probably get to see in a few weeks) making four Human Druid 1\/Way of the Four Elementals Monk 3. Two of them started out as Druids, and two of them started out as Monks at 1st<\/sup> level. Three were using the variant human rule for a free feat selection and bonus skill and all but one used the standard array (with the odd duck out being a point buy build). I\u2019m pleased to say that even though they were built around a similar theme, each one of these characters came out looking very different in my head (and even a little bit on paper) when all was said and done. The mechanics and the abilities are a part of the character advancement, but they do not define the character class. Instead, it\u2019s up to the player to define the abilities within the scope of the player.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take the Monk\u2019s Martial Arts for example \u2013 your archetypal (and don\u2019t get me wrong, they use archetypes for a reason) Monk is a practitioner of some form of martial art like karate or judo, giving a eastern flair to a predominantly western setting. But maybe your character is more of a wrestler with arm locks and other technique holds replacing the pressure point strikes of a more \u201ctraditional\u201d Monk. Your Flurry of Blows then becomes a Zangief style Double Lariat. Or maybe your character favors a more aggressive form of fighting, and instead of playing a technical game, he likes to dash in with a literal flurry of strikes in a Cobra Kai \u201cstrike first, strike hard, no mercy\u201d type of philosophy.<\/p>\n

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Sure Rich Franklin and Wanderlei Silva can both throw a punch, but they definitely don’t train the same way. (Photo from June 2012, courtesy of fighthub.tv)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even the particular Fighting Style that every Fighter chooses at 1st<\/sup> level can benefit from more detail into what it looks like and how it serves the particular character concept. A character that selects the Dueling Fighting Style from a Sailor background may favor fast and heavy attacks with a cutlass or scimitar to repel boarders while one from a Noble background may drop into an \u201cen garde\u201d position reflecting the time he spent with his family\u2019s fencing master when he was growing up. Two Soldiers might have different ideas on what the Defense fighting style actually means, with one turning his body to most effectively use his armor to absorb the blows while another might adopt more of a juggernaut style and simply stride through the battlefield letting his experience with wearing armor let him ignore blows that would interrupt or harm those of lesser skill.<\/p>\n

In short (because I could really go on and on about this for quite a bit more) if you let the mechanics dictate your character, you\u2019re going to have a bad time. The mechanics are there to do exactly what they sound like they should do \u2013 help to drive the story that is being told. Nothing more. Nothing less. The mechanics are not your character. You are expected to put in some of the work. And using your imagination to do so is a large portion of the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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