King of the Gods patron of civilization, rulership and law and associated with the sun and summer. gods of agriculture are common in real world pantheons, but their priests aren't likely to go on adventurers) to add enough onto such concepts to make their portfolios cover things that adventurers would find useful. I started out by looking at some of the more well-known real pantheons to look at the sort of things that were commonly found in them and then put them through the filter of 'usefulness to an adventurer' that was mentioned in the 4E development book (i.e. Yesterday I brought you the general layout for the divine classes so today I thought I'd give you an idea of how the domains were shaping up. Mostly likely its going to end up being a sub-set of the arcane power source (alongside the study, bloodline and pact sources of arcane power) with the Psion being a subset of Mage and the Psychic Warrior/Battlemind and Soulknife concepts being subsets of the Spellblade while the Ardent is essentially a Skald-build of the Rogue with the "Monastic" background instead of the "Arcane Scholar" background applied. It should be noted too that, as of now, there isn't going to be a distinct 'Psionic' power source. allowing for barbarian fighters, rangers, rogues and even mages and gadgeteers (think Hiccup from HtTYD). It also doesn't lock them into any one power source, so you could have divine monks, arcane monks, martial monks or even primal monks depending on the world you're setting up.Īnother iconic class shifted into background status is the Barbarian (which was a culture, not homogenous bands of rage monsters). One of the two biggies in terms of 'iconic' classes is being built into the "Monastic" background that covers the elements of the D&D monk and allows not just slayers, but guardian, controller and enabler monks as well.
perhaps add rituals for a grade of magic.For those who want such things there's going to be a "Religious Order" background that would model that pretty closely.īackgrounds are also how I'm enabling a few concepts that didn't fit quite so cleanly into the basic class structure. Garthanos wrote: Yes a Warlord with religious training actually makes a pretty fair priest of Odin too.