Characters, Decyphered!

And Dave said "let there be someone who can take out a vampire", and He saw that it… actually kinda worked.     For our final week of Christmas @ Gary's, we'll be statting out the Mighty Man of God in the Middle, the original third wheel, the Grand Moff of miracle working… the Cleric!  Conceived as a way to stop a vampire PC  from derailing the First Fantasy Campaign , the cleric eventually found its niche as a sort of supportive gap-filler with some of the fighting man's might and some of the magic-user's magic.  WIth that in mind, our design goals will be to build a character who can  heal and turn undead be the heart of the group be somewhat balanced, in case any of your comrades go down. Without further ado, prepare for come high deus vultage!  First Tier     Just as Fighter Man was a warrior and Magic-User was an adept, our great holy man will be a speaker becau

      The artillery to the fighting man's infantry, the magic user uses magic to progress from "mundane version of Penn & Teller" to "living deus ex machina" in eleven levels or less.  Our build goals are thus: make 'em squishy make 'em magical make 'em feel like it's tool time, all the time. That means all of the cyphers, most of the time. First Tier     Our magic-user will be an Inquisitive Adept who Masters Spells.   As the Monte Cook type, your pools are 7/9/12 in might/speed/intellect order before we dump our bonus points into intellect, and 7/9/18 after, with 1 intellect edge because you're a Genius™ , and can carry three cyphers instead of the usual two.  Of course, because fair is fair, you have an inability to use medium and heavy weapons (swords, longbows, etc.).  To balance out that fairness, however, your goodie bag will contain: Clothes, which means you get pointy hat and normal clothes. 2 expensive items (a "walking sti

Fighter Man!  Fighter Man!  Overall, he's fairly bland!    … until now!        You see, in theory, the simple-almost-to-the-point-of-abstraction fighting man would be the easiest class to decypher, given that the only build goals were or could ever be: hit good take hits gooder hit goodest But then a psychic alchemy of 2020, procrastination, and spending five more minutes with the Cypher System Revised coninced me to pivot from my initial idea for MR. MAXIMUM DAMAGE   to a more weapon-for-every-occasion-and-occasion-for-every-weapon kind of guy  Without further ado, meet Ser Thomas Clancy, the Fighting Man! First Tier     Given the straightforward role as the infantry of an old-school adventuring party, I'm going with a Tough Warrior who Looks for Trouble.   I was initially going to go with Masters Weaponry , but he just ain't a one-blade man… a warrior's got needs, you know.  the Tough descriptor gives you +1 armor, +1 to recovery rolls, training in might d