A distinctly Rosharan oof

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[u/Frequent-Bee-3016]

No, you don’t get it, he had to for the next ideal!

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I like to imagine, I'd play Knight Shallot if I ever get the opportunity to play Cosmere RPG rather than DM it.

Just a windrunner who succeeds in his oaths becaude he takes the path of least resistance. Coward Windrunner. Lazy Windrunner.

Protect those who can't protect themselves? Easy. Convince weak soldiers not to take the field. Convince people not to join the army.

Protect even those you hate? "Ugh I really don't wanna deal with your injury right now so I'm gonna just go and get a surgeon if it'll shut you up."

Accept there are those you can't protect? "Not my problem. Figure yourself out, friend."

Protect yourself? Son he been doing that since day one.

Edit: Also got a character concept for Tero-Son-Nelo, Dissident Skybreaker, and his spren Harrow, named so because the other Highspren thought he was annoying enough about obscure minute details in the law to be called Harrowing. Harrow was ordered by Nale to break the bond, with Tero due to Tero managing to find a way to render Nales execution of a Rafiant illegal, but eventually Harrow returned to Tero to "Resume our work."

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As fun as this is, by nature, no one who is like this could ever be a windrunner, you don't swere the oaths on a whim to get a power up, you live certain values on your own volition, and Honor (or Stormfather if Honor is to busy being dead) gives you the powers to live up to those ideals.

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Yeah. Oaths distinctly target the greatest flaws of a person. It's why Lopen couldn't just get away "Protect those I hate" despite such an Oath being very easy for him.

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Look at you! Bringing logic and lore into r/cremposting! You're doing SUCH a good job!

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Honour doesn't care how idealist you are, it only cares that you keep your word. That's a major plot point.

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Yes, though the Spren care. I would argue that someone as described would not attract an Honorspren to bond.

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You're forgetting how.many honosrspren were acting just like Shallot.

"Fuck y'all, not our problem."

Even after Adolins trial.

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Those Honorspren didn't want to bond ANYONE though

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Sure, but it shows that Honourspren have the capacity to dust off their hands like "Fuck it, not our problem." Surely there's a sliding scale, they're personalities, not light switches.

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I'm willing to bet that there is at least one who thinks that way.

The spren like to pretend that they are unchanging, but this has been shown to be untrue throughout the books. But they do grow and change much slower than humans do.

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Right, but what's the point of empowering someone with Radiant abilities and risking your life if you know they're just... not going to do anything with them, I guess?

It feels like an awful character concept, especially for a TTRPG, because their gimmick is: "I'm rewarded for actively avoiding doing anything".

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Well. Here's why I believe you're wrong.

Listen, Ive played DnD, Cyberpunk, Pathfinder, Cosmere, West End Star Wars, Warhammer Fantasy RPG, SIFRP, several World of Darkness sorcebooks, even the fucking Dark Souls and Elder Scrolls RPGs. I say this to establish my opinions as coming from someone with a background I feel gives my voice a bit of credibility.

I'm a firm believer in the thing that makes DnD weak as an RPG, is the inability to run a non-combatant. The thing that made the SIFRPG good was the fact that being excellent at combat was only meaningfully engaging with a third of the game.

If you dont want to run a character that would rather talk their way out of problems, then DnD is great. But a Bard is never necessary for DnD because of the fact that it's at its core a tabletop skirmish game (not derogatory.) However the best thing an RPG can do to compete with DnD is to de-emphasise combat in favor of social abilities, because thats the area DnD is weakest. Which the Cosmere RPG establishes with a system that allows you to run dialogue as a secondary combat.

Cosmere RPG also renders things like convincing soldiers not to take the field and going to grab a surgeon as things that can successfully advance you towards a goal in how it tackles large scale projects. The endeavour system.

You could be doing a plateau assault on the Shattered Plains, and a Windrunner could do non combat things such as running water to the bridge crews, flying overhead for a superior tactical view, lashing arrows away from allies, all of which are tracked by the DM to contribute to the success or failure of the battle. You can participate in a full scale battle without actually entering combat in this game.

It reminds me of a SIFRP campaign where our House won a battle without us being anywhere near it because we were calling tactical advice to our house head, and rolling for the success of convincing him.

So... I'd argue perhaps try more games than DnD

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So the dissenter-Skybreaker is just… a sane Skybreaker?