I’m sharing pieces of the advice I’m including in Hundred Dungeons in hopes that it might reach more people and be helpful. What follows is one excerpt from the upcoming GM’s Guide for Hundred Dungeons. While it focuses on that game, the advice is broadly applicable to any game involving open, creative play.
The world can be bleak and selfish, but oathbound Paladins stand for something greater than themselves. They may be devout knights, penitent sinners, or doomed zealots stepping into danger to prove their moral mettle and exemplify the tenets of their oath.
Paladins are primarily warriors of conscience. Loyalty transforms their faith into a source of divine power that enhances their combat abilities and empowers them to heal and defend their allies.
Petitioners of the gods, faithful devotees who mediate between mortals and the cosmic realms, clerics live their faith by becoming emissaries of a grand design. Some seek to heal the world, others to break it in service to their ideals.
Whether humble caretakers, noble philosophers, or soldiers armed for holy war, clerics rise to become the image of that which they serve.
Berserkers are imposing combatants, wild with the frenzy of battle and heedless of danger. With little protection and the relentless focus of a predator, they spring through danger like a pouncing predator and sweep enemies aside with the immutability of a raging tempest.
Bearing ancestral or animal emblems allows a berserker to embody primal forces and become nigh unstoppable on the battlefield.
