Thought this might be relevant to our discussions here.
Originally shared by Andrew Medeiros
I was watching some season 4 Angel today on my lunch and mused on how different Wesley is in that season as compared season 1. He goes through a lot (taking over the team while Angel is incommunicado, betraying them all in order to save baby Connor, getting his throat slit, etc.) and these events leave their clear mark on him.
What this highlights for me is the archetype/playbook/skin change in PBTA games. In my humble opinion, Wesley goes from Urban Shadows’ The Scholar to The Hunter somewhere in the middle of season 3. The change is obvious: he has all these cool new weapons he’s designed, he starts toting firearms that would have looked ridiculous in the old Wesley’s hands, and he grows some killer stubble.
Anyone who has played a campaign with me knows that I always shoot for the Archetype swap asap! I love it, I feel like it gives me complete control of my character’s arc and it just plain makes me happy!
What are some other notable archetype/playbook changes you enjoy in fiction? I’d love to hear your faves.
I had an idea for a character who had a brush with one of the Japanese goblin spider myths (jurougumo or something similar) and slowly changing and managing to suppress the change via a medicine of some sort (similar to the vampire hunter in a 2001 vampire movie called “The Forsaken”.
starting as a hunter due to increased physicality of the initial changes and eventually going toward either vampire or wolf (depending on whether I wanted to emphasize the seductive spider spirit or the rampaging shape-shifter aspect of the Japanese myths).
If it were possible, I could do the the whole arc by starting as Aware…shifting to Hunter as she started to get physically stronger and acquire new hunting instincts and then finally go full spider-creature (Vamp or Wolf)
But I’m not sure if you get a fresh batch of Advancements when you switch or not.