<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=209069.msg10273659#msg10273659">Quote from: Dirigible on 18-07-2014, 22:04:02</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You could take another kind of spear and add most of the traits lances have via weapon upgrades (pp. 184). A <em>massive, calvary, armour piercing</em> throwing spear would do most everything a lance can do - plus you could throw it. Or a boarspear with the same upgrades, etc.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Got it, will do. I also am pretty sure that's ceremonial armor she's wearing (but it's probably beaten and polished brass with perhaps a few thin-pounded strips of gold sheet as designs over something else (probably crocodile hide, it was good enough for the Romans (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_crocodile_armor,_British_museum..jpg) of Legio Africana (http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=20722&objectId=101700&partId=1)), not actually<em>gold armor</em>...Actual gold plated armor is just too heavy and too much of an invitation to getting mugged in your sleep, even if you do sleep with a lapkitty who weighs more than half a ton). The sort of thing that looks amazing as hell when the sun hits it but up close is clearly just a thin veneer of pretty over something more functional and 'real.'<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=209069.msg10273659#msg10273659">Quote from: Dirigible on 18-07-2014, 22:04:02</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Sounds right. At level 5, you could take the Beastmaster expert class, which gives a nice bonus to animal companion XP.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>At a heavy cost to feat progression including the loss of the level 5 feat the Lancer would gain. Hmmmm. And she wouldn't get any use at all out of the Exotic Partner trait. Also more of a specialist than a combat type, where Lancer is undeniably a combat type. I think for now I'll just...ride this one out. ;)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=209069.msg10273659#msg10273659">Quote from: Dirigible on 18-07-2014, 22:04:02</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">One interesting description I've heard from veteran players is that Specialty is <em>what</em> your character does, and class is <em>how</em> they do it.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That's sort of how I was starting to get it, yes. I have to admit it's quite a mental shift trying to come out of a 3.5/Pathfinder headspace, particularly the way Action Dice work and both the players AND the GM have them to spend in opposition.<br/><br/>But I do think I'm getting it. I will try to have something worth reviewing/commenting on/advising put up later today or tonight.<br/><br/>KnightNelson, I've owned this book over a year, read it previously, fantasized about playing it, thought about characters...And having put it down for about ten months or so I'm<em>still </em>having trouble wrapping my head back around it (and also realizing that some of what I was thinking before was not correct). It's very convoluted. If you imagine laying out race & class in D&D as a flat grid, this game instead is a vertical cube of possible intersecting points on 3 axis (potentially a fourth, the way spellcasting changes things up and is apparently available to anyone willing to purchase it). So I can't blame Dirigible for not wanting to teach someone. It's hugely different. It's NOT 'just a D20 variant' or something. But it has about as many tables. :6