Five Worldly Ascetics & Rogue Exponents
I've always liked psionics in my D&D, both as an innate set of traits, and as a trained or ascetic practice. But one of Telecanter's blog posts, which helped highlight these differences got me thinking about how odd it is that a character whose claim to fame is self reliance, would be marauding through a dungeon looking for wealth and power. I posed this question in the comments, and in Telecanter's response , he mentioned a similarity between kung fu narratives and westerns. This led to a roundabout epiphany on my part. In my mind westerns will now always be associated with this weird little niche of geekdom: The Dark Tower - With it's knightly gunslighters. Knights of Cydonia - Which crosses the kung fu and western genres. 21 Guns - Which crosses the Dark Tower with Knights of Cydonia. The Dark Tower in particular suggests a foil to the gunslinger: the failed gunslinger. Gunslingers who fail their Test are forced to turn in their g...