Using the Outsider playbook for a character who is an angel instead of an alien: hot or not?
Using the Outsider playbook for a character who is an angel instead of an alien: hot or not?
Using the Outsider playbook for a character who is an angel instead of an alien: hot or not?
I’ve done exactly that.
Super hot. I almost did the same thing once, could imagine all kinds of potential.
The important thing about the Outsider is that they come from a significant cultural remove, ideally from a culture that thinks itself in many ways superior and has enough power to back that opinion up. So a different dimension, or a distant future, or heaven, they all work just as well as an alien planet.
Hmm. That means a devil would also be an option…
Very hot! Though I might have gone Legacy instead.
The Ultimate Protege.
Ashley Dienst Philipson I’m busy using the Legacy for someone who reincarnates.
Hotter than a flaming sword.
It does work, but you want to preface it with players because the Outsider comes from a culture that THINKS itself better but comes with issues. Remember that there are supposed to be things that they find better in Halcyon than back home. This can be uncomfortable for some players if ‘back home’ is a supposedly perfect afterlife; most would be fine with it, but you are touching on religious subjects so double checking is in order.
Hot
Hot.
I did a “Molepeople” Outsider.
Riffing off what Andrew said: Angels in comic books are usually not straightforward good guys. The theology ranges between haphazard and intentionally baroque and they’re villains as often as they are heroes. I think it would be fabulous to play an angel as an outsider, but you’d need to be willing to treat abrahamic mythology with the same lack-of-seriousness and creativity that the Thor comics reserves for Norse Myth.
I’m here for it.
And honestly will probably steal this idea.
One of my players actually is playing an angel, of a sort, but is a Newborn who is an artificial angel created by wizards.