Revision of Errant:
The term Errant actually refers to a wandering Knight without a lord. I chose it for it's connection to classic literature and the adventuring ideal. This is the fighter who builds the stronghold and attracts followers. He is D&D, in a very real sense.
Well, what if I take the Errant game as it exists today; which is my best attempt to blend old and new D&D concepts in a way that I like, and instead make Errant about being an actual Errant-Knight.
This is my initial list of revision ideas:
1. Strong gendering element added to world to make physical combat very male. Creation of a Knight class, addition of significant henchman elements, re-evaluation of armor in a way that makes Knight very robust, lots of setting-building work here.
2. Strong gendering element added to world to make magic very female. Creation of Sorceress class (instead of neutral sorcerer), but largely keeping everything intact in terms of my magic system except maybe making magic more about non-Evocation styles; especially strengthening of classical witchcraft and manipulation magic concepts. Addition of ritualistic casting for certain kinds of spells that requires multiple sorceresses to accomplish.
3. Reimagining of a Ranger class without any magical or supernatural elements. Pure woodsman. Really a robin hood style dude more than the D&D conception.
4. Maintaining Rogue as a highwayman style class.
5. Taking magic away from Scholar but really beefing up their healing. Removing standard healing from Sorceress class and making magical healing impossible except as a ritual.
6. Cutting Druid, Bard, & Paladin.
7. Adjusting the game in a lot more ways to be strongly attached to a dark medieval setting that I have been accreting in my brain since writing the first beta.
Okay, tell me how I am stupid/brilliant.
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