clearly we are going by chrono trigger rules and there's a 50% chance of either saurians or apes becoming the human paladins (dominant species) of every 'verseAlthough the paladin class is normally restricted to humans, since saurials originate from a different prime material plane I suppose an argument could be made that different rules apply there.
Everyone else was too small for the gods to notice them, half-orcs are filth and elves... are elves.
Why would a Gnome want to be an inferior class when they had access to the superior Fighter/Illusionist?
...Excuse me?
I found no explanation in AD&D 2ed PHB I have, but it's like asking why only dwarf could be a dwarf.
going by baldur's gate 2e was rather arbitrary. do we need an explanation why elves can't be fighter/druids but half/elves can?
even better, why can a half elf be a fighter/druid but an elf can't?
Games are arbitrary by their nature. Different buffs, debuffs and limitations are reasons for experimentation. Without that you get something bland like Pathfinder. "Oh golly! Now I can make druid-mage dwarf!" quickly lost its charm.
I don't totally agree. Games are reasoned by nature. Designers decide the strengths and limitations of every aspect of their worlds, as to create an experience that rises above sandboxy make believe. Wether the game feels arbitrary or not is a factor of novelty multiplied by the quality of that reasoning.
If we were looking forward to this game, we wouldn't be posting about it.
Art is rooted in life. Art without life is mere abstract, yes. But art, games especially, always have an abstract aspect and in games this aspect is limited by pleasure that the players got. What give pleasure to the players? Well, that's arbitral, just I wrote
All this example is completely wrong. Gygax was history buff and hardcore Christian before he created D&D. He made clerics this way because he knows how they were presented in culture, like Turpin from "La Chanson de Roland" or even Brother Tuck from Robin Hood.
You've proved my point. No I don't remember the exact inspirations for every single thing in D&D. But wether Gygax and co based their decisions on Conan or Robin Hood, then the decision was not arbitrary. It was reasoned. And it was based on the designer's lives. Basing clerics off of Friar Tuck, a character they read about in childhood, is as far away from arbitrary as you can go.
The cleric class originated in Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign, as a counterweight to the player-controlled villainous vampire Sir Fang, although it seems the prohibition against edged/piercing weapons came from Gary Gygax's interpretation of the class. See Bishop Carr - First D&D Cleric.
Oh we're all waiting
I guarantee you that it will win the codex goty.
I didn't know your video card was a lord. Guess they'll hand those out to anybody these days, even in Leafland.
They named that guy after my video card.
