Clerics do not have to be healing dispensers
Fighters do not have to sword & board plate wearers
Bards do not have to be sexual deviants
Paladins do not have to be religious fanatics
Barbarians do not have to be low int idiots
Rogues do not have to be stealthy edge lords If you WANT to be a super supportive healer cleric, go for it. You do you! If you want your bard to flirt and try and bang every NPC you meet, honey go nuts!But don't tell people they HAVE to play to these tropes and archetypes. Don't EXPECT people to be them.
— Sherlock Hulmes – HighRollers Sun @ 5pm GMT (@sherlock_hulmes) November 6, 2021
Can I be all of those things simultaneously Sam, darling, you can be *anything*. 💖
— Sherlock Hulmes – HighRollers Sun @ 5pm GMT (@sherlock_hulmes) November 6, 2021
Every time I play a cleric, I take this to heart.
Every time I play a cleric, the fighter in the party gets mad.
🤣 Fighter needs to remember they aren't playing WoW. 😛 It's not like D&D even has real aggro mechanics anyway.
— Sherlock Hulmes – HighRollers Sun @ 5pm GMT (@sherlock_hulmes) November 6, 2021
I mean, coming into D&D 3 years ago and ONLY really knowing these tropes was kinda helpful? It made first character creation easier as I knew what to expect what my character should do. Back then knowing clerics were ‘the’ healer was helpful cause I knew I was gonna be useful? Absolutely. Like I said in the tweet after, *nothing* wrong with playing these tropes and using them to ease into the game.
It's the folks who tell off others for NOT playing them, or expecting them to be played a certain way that is IMO wrong.
— Sherlock Hulmes – HighRollers Sun @ 5pm GMT (@sherlock_hulmes) November 7, 2021