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I realize there are maybe three people on this site who have played both. But I'm trying to decide which to pick up again.

Summaries for those who haven't:

Paladin: A young person comes of age. Whether out of faith, or for lack of a better option, they pledge to serve Justice, the goddess of the temple in which they were raised. Unexpectedly, Justice answers. They become a paladin... and must ultimately choose between Justice and Mercy.

Hunter: A young person tries to survive in a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting. A chance encounter sets them on the path to becoming a Hunter, one of the demon-killing elite. They may choose to go in search of a lost childhood friend... and discover a city in ruins. At that point, only they can save their own city from the same fate.

Thoughts? Critical feedback is always welcome!

Paladin. It was fucking awesome. 

Hunter. It was awesome before it even had a plot!

Aw, thanks guys.

Your votes do kind of cancel each other out, buuut I appreciate the votes of confidence, anyway. ^_^

Hunters are infinitely more awesome/classy than Paladins anyway. Unless they are defiantly atheist Paladins.

Update: The Athiest Paladin D&D character that I had recently gave in. It turns out his Willpower (And my willpower...) wasn't high enough to win a religious argument with the High Priest, and that Omnipotent Aliens as opposed to Gods was pretty much semantics anyhow. This, of course, dissappointed the God of Sporks, who wanted to see just how long he could keep the gag going.

XD

I prefer the Paladin concept. A religion as a motivational backbone can add a lot to a story, personal beliefs notwithstanding. Like, Yevon, with Final Fantasy X. Sure, your job was to tear the whole religious system apart from the inside out, (which was bizarrely satisfying, I must admit) but it added a lot of culture and significance to your journey. I'd like to add that I don't think the only choices should be Justice and Mercy for the outcome.

I admit that hunter appeals to me, but we're about to see a boom of post-apocalyptic settings, one of which I know for damn sure will be fantasy, I think it would be better for you to pick Paladin because it will ... stand out a bit more, perhaps? And be a welcome break from the other settings.

 

Thanks for the input!

Hunter, if only so you could submit it into Madglee's contest. That'd be pretty cool.

I missed the 'intent to enter' deadline... also, isn't it for CYS games only? No offense to the loyalists around here, but... yeah, no. I need my pronoun variables. XD

Intent to enter doesn't really exist anymore haha. Madglee threw that out a while ago.

The other thing is inexcusable >:-|

The lack of strings in CYS scripting? I agree. Totally inexcusable. XD

%%GENDER%=%1%CIS Scum%%%%GENDER%=%2%Male%%%%GENDER%=%3%Female%%%%GENDER%=%4%Trans Female%%%%GENDER%=%5%Trans Male%%%%GENDER%=%%6%Owl%%%%GENDER%=%6%Gender Neutral%%%%GENDER%=%7%Attack Helicopter%%%%GENDER%=%8%N/A%

There, a gender script. Just put there wherever in the story where you want their custom gender to appear!

While I agree CYS needs a string variable, there are ways around it, lol.

XD

As... entertaining... as that would be, especially with sentences with multiple custom pronouns... I'm going to have to go with 'no.' XD

What if they are both OWL and ATTACK HELICOPTER?

STOP OPPRESSING ME, YOU BIGOT. 

Hunter, what penguin said.

Thanks for the vote!

I got a couple votes off-thread, and right now Hunter is definitely in the lead. ^_^

For Kiel's reasons, and because I'm particularly curious how your upbringing might play a part in the storytelling...Paladin.

Hunter. 

Hunter

They're both good, but Hunter!

Because trying to do two things at once would make them take twice as long to finish, making it that much more likely that I'd lose interest and stop working on them entirely. :P

Anyway, it looks like Hunter wins! Thank you all for your input, I really appreciate it. ^_^

I jest. :P

But yeah, Hunter sounds better to me, not that one person's opinion is going to shift the balance now.

I don't get the joke. :(

Looking back on it, it was less of a joke and more just me messing around.

xD Had a feeling hunter would win. Oh, well. I'm sure it'll be a good one either way.

Paladin cameo maybe?  xD