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# Pillars of Eternity to have brilliant weakling fighters, idiot jackass wizards, and other strange classes
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/pillars-eternity-have-brilliant-weakling-fighters-idiot-jackass-wizards-and-other-unconventional-classes/
- Published: 2014-04-21T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:34:08.000Z
- Description: A fair critique of RPGs is that you inevitably wind up overseeing the same wimpy wizards and quick-witted rogues no matter which game you’re in. But Obsidian’s Kickstarted fantasy Pillars of Eternity gives you the option to disassemble those tried-and-true archetypes of the ancient rulebook. Josh S
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, D&D, Kickstarter, obsidian, Pillars of Eternity, RPG, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

A fair critique of RPGs is that you inevitably wind up overseeing the same wimpy wizards and quick-witted rogues no matter which game you’re in. But Obsidian’s Kickstarted fantasy *Pillars of Eternity* gives you the option to disassemble those tried-and-true archetypes of the ancient rulebook.

Josh Sawyer, lead designer on *Fallout: New Vegas* and now this game, told PC Gamer that he was upending the tea table in terms of character creation.

> If someone wants to make a brilliant, weakling fighter, that is a build that is viable in our game, and it’s rewarded within the conversations and the fiction of the world.   
>  
> If you want to make a muscle wizard, who is mighty and powerful and a stupid idiot, you can do that.

His motivation is that he often has great ideas for characters while playing tabletop games, “but mechanically they’re shitty characters,” he says. But in *Pillars of Eternity*, they’re capable of holding their own. A shakeup in the dogma of D&D is something I can totally get behind.