09-12-2003, 06:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2003, 06:23 PM by LemmingofGlory.)
Quote:I'll bite. What's the DSF/LL/RBD difference between a role and a variant?
Style
Describes the way a character plays.
High AC is generally "tank." Low AC is Artillery (if Mage) or LAW (if Warrior); don't know of any designation for rogue. Other designations may be used depending on character's weapon, e.g. "axe warrior" or "bow rogue" or "s/s rogue" or Claudio's "CAT rogue." Mages that use melee combat as their main source of kill-power may be called "Battle Mages" (as opposed to the variant "Muscle Mage").
All characters have a particular style.
Role
If a character is roleplayed, the role is the character's personality. There's not much roleplaying in Diablo, so most characters simply carry the their player's personality.
Roles are optional and seldom used.
Variant
A set of rules connected by an overall concept. For example, the Barbarian (BAR) is a muscle-bound brute not sophisticated enough to understand magic. The rules illustrate this by disallowing anything magical: shrines, blue items, yellow items, and spells (not that he can read anyway).
Variants sometimes have a role associated with them. Again using the BAR, players were encouraged to use "BAR speak" which, in essence, meant talking very primitively. Example phrases:
"Me am fine"
"Much bad juju!"
"Og hate jujuwitches!"
"Him bad!"
Even for variants, however, roles are optional. It sure is a lot of fun, though, when you've got a group RPing their variants together. ;)
[o: *LEMMING* :o]