Class for resisting Dark Urge Playthrough?

[Zaum]

Debating which Class to go with, wanted to make a Likith sworn Drow Vengeance Paladin, but now that we can recruite MInthara without comminting a genocide, not sure 2 Paladins is the right call... What would you suggest?

[Sterling]

I'd say, Monk. Resisting bloodlust through discipline is a fine RP trope.

[Orion Invictus]

Monk. It's what I did.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by 3ayMb:

Class for resisting Dark Urge Playthrough?
Debating which Class to go with, wanted to make a Likith sworn Drow Vengeance Paladin, but now that we can recruite MInthara without comminting a genocide, not sure 2 Paladins is the right call... What would you suggest?

Sorcerer

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Sorc

[Quacksalber]

Only bards can fool gods

[thufirhawat333]

Sorcerer makes a lot of sense, their magic coming from within is already a life of struggle with powers. They have... experience.

Monk would sound nice in theory, but I just can't see how the character got into a monastic order with their past. It just doesn't fit.

[Diomedes]

Originally posted by thufirhawat333:

Sorcerer makes a lot of sense, their magic coming from within is already a life of struggle with powers. They have... experience.

Monk would sound nice in theory, but I just can't see how the character got into a monastic order with their past. It just doesn't fit.

.. Order of the Long Death? There is even a subclass for it in 5e.

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Originally posted by thufirhawat333:

Sorcerer makes a lot of sense, their magic coming from within is already a life of struggle with powers. They have... experience.

Monk would sound nice in theory, but I just can't see how the character got into a monastic order with their past. It just doesn't fit.

Order of the Dark Moon the best thing about Dark Moon monk is the opposition to the Shar

[Sterling]

Originally posted by thufirhawat333:

Sorcerer makes a lot of sense, their magic coming from within is already a life of struggle with powers. They have... experience.

Monk would sound nice in theory, but I just can't see how the character got into a monastic order with their past. It just doesn't fit.

Paladin does not make sense for Dark Urge either, unless you consider that they lost their memory and woke up feeling the need to seek vengeance on whoever wronged them which evolved into a vengeance vow.
Same with a monk, marital prowess intact, previous bloodlust, etc. absent/suppresed.

[Diomedes]

Originally posted by Sterling:

Originally posted by thufirhawat333:

Sorcerer makes a lot of sense, their magic coming from within is already a life of struggle with powers. They have... experience.

Monk would sound nice in theory, but I just can't see how the character got into a monastic order with their past. It just doesn't fit.

Paladin does not make sense for Dark Urge either, unless you consider that they lost their memory and woke up feeling the need to seek vengeance on whoever wronged them which evolved into a vengeance vow.
Same with a monk, marital prowess intact, previous bloodlust, etc. absent.

It'd make sense if they could start out as a Oath Breaker.. Or if other vows existed in the game, like Vow of Conquest.

[Kemaro Kitsune]

Originally posted by thufirhawat333:

Sorcerer makes a lot of sense, their magic coming from within is already a life of struggle with powers. They have... experience.

Monk would sound nice in theory, but I just can't see how the character got into a monastic order with their past. It just doesn't fit.

Disagreed.

A troubled past struggling to control untamed instincts of savagery and terrible killer impulses sounds like PRECISELY the kind of reason why someone with a good conscience would try to hone their self control and determination through meditation, training, dicipline, self-iprovement and spiritual cultivation while seeking guidance of someone wiser and in isolation from society in general somewhere secluded and controlled, like a monastery, to avoid mass chaos, as there are less defenseless people to victimize and more self-cultivated people who can subdue him if the urges become irresistible.

A monk actually fits like a glove under such light, someone with such a charged past but is ultimately a good soul who wishes to see these urges purged or at least put in check.

Not that Sorcerer is a bad choice, but i can definitly see Monk as a perfect fit.

[Sterling]

Originally posted by Diomedes:

Originally posted by Sterling:

Paladin does not make sense for Dark Urge either, unless you consider that they lost their memory and woke up feeling the need to seek vengeance on whoever wronged them which evolved into a vengeance vow.
Same with a monk, marital prowess intact, previous bloodlust, etc. absent.

It'd make sense if they could start out as a Oath Breaker.. Or if other vows existed in the game, like Vow of Conquest.

Nah, what Dark Urge was before memory loss does not matter, as it was erased along with their supposed power level. If you want to RP it to it's fullest you can always multiclass a few levels into what you consider to be Dark Urge pre brain surgery class once you meet Gortash:)

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by 3ayMb:

Debating which Class to go with, wanted to make a Likith sworn Drow Vengeance Paladin, but now that we can recruite MInthara without comminting a genocide, not sure 2 Paladins is the right call... What would you suggest?

Not the answer you're looking for, but you can always just respec Minthara into something else. I did a lot of that to my own party. I didn't want two Druids, so I respecced Jahera into a Ranger, which meant I specced Minsc as a Barbarian (makes sense with his personality), which made Kharlak into a Fighter (seems the most appropriate to me) and Leizel a Paladin of Vengeance. Without Minthara, I didn't have a Paladin already.

[glenn3e]

Doing Monk and very happy with it. A lot of it are wisdom rolls so it just fits.

[Dragon Master]

I actually think druid, monk or cleric would be fun Dark Urge playthroughs.

Yes, they all get good wisdom scores but I also think through roleplay it can be a lot of fun. A repentant dark urge turning to the gods and being granted power (especially if it's a neutral god) can be a lot of fun. Druids can genuinely be good or evil because nature giveth and taketh away and doesn't care one way or the other, and overcoming one's nature through discipline as a monk is always going to be a fun roleplay decision.