I saw something on the homebrew forums of Giant in the Playground about a "Philosopher" base class. It basically was to cleric what sorcerer is to wizard, but what he'd done with the domains was interesting: you could get various minor buffs for aspects of the philosopher's philosophy.
I remember thinking that the class as built worked a lot better for eastern philosophers. It was difficult to see it working for a Socrates or a Descartes or a Chesterton.
Anyway, to the point: something like that might work for the Scholar. Maybe if they're an expert on Plato, they get resistance to things that would require sanity checks, because they're used to the idea of seeing beyond the physical world, or if they're a librarian they get something like a bardic knowledge skill (like that one guy in "It"), or if they're a naturalist then they get additional chances to notice if something unnatural is in the area because it's warping the natural world insidiously.
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Date: 2008-07-03 01:56 am (UTC)I remember thinking that the class as built worked a lot better for eastern philosophers. It was difficult to see it working for a Socrates or a Descartes or a Chesterton.
Anyway, to the point: something like that might work for the Scholar. Maybe if they're an expert on Plato, they get resistance to things that would require sanity checks, because they're used to the idea of seeing beyond the physical world, or if they're a librarian they get something like a bardic knowledge skill (like that one guy in "It"), or if they're a naturalist then they get additional chances to notice if something unnatural is in the area because it's warping the natural world insidiously.
The possibilities are pretty wide.