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| A '''class''' is, in the broadest sense a division or category of similar things. A class of ships all have similar designs and roles, a class of students may share an age, achievement level, or graduation date, and so on. In the context of [[role-playing game]]s, there are two definitions of class that are most relevant: ''[[character]] class'', which is a career or set of skills, and ''social class'', which is a character's place in the social hierarchy.
| | '''THE GRAND DAD EMPIRE''' ARE a prolific VINESAUCE-centric MEME group based in BEDROCK CITY. Their largest periods of activity seemed to be around the time SILVAGUNNER was terminated, when they were hosting several unofficial VINESAUCE gaming events (which they assure you repeatedly are ''not'' official Tournaments and are in no way affiliated with JOEL). |
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| == Character Class ==
| | They operated out of the SilvaGunner YouTube channel until it was terminated in 2014, after which they appear to have transitioned briefly to GiivaSunner in September of 2016 before returning to SilvaGunner in June of 2018. |
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| A [[character]]'s class (e.g. [[ranger]], [[paladin]], [[rogue]]) encodes and/or influences her career (in fact, some role-playing games use ''career'' as the term for the class mechanic), skills, specializations, and role in the [[party]]. A character's class may provide bonuses to certain [[stat]]s and grant access to certain skills (or make certain skills cheaper to purchase) as a character gains levels in that class. Some games permit [[multiclassing]], where a character can pick up levels in different classes at the same time (leading to character classes like "Paladin 6/Wizard 1/Lawful stupid 10" and the like).
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| | The original forums appeared to function as four services: preparation and communication in service of coming events, discussion about new HIGH-QUALITY RIPS, MEME showcase, and general VINESAUCE or unrelated discussion. |
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| In [[Munchkin (Card Game)|Munchkin]], you have no class (heh) until you play a class card.
| | {{awesome}}== EVENTS == |
| | The VINESAUCE MEME events that The GRAND DAD EMPIRE held were known for being diverse and involved, due in large part to their incredibly strong YTP scene. These events would involve VINESAUCE-branded fan-made HIGH-QUALITY RIPS for SONGS that wouldn't exist for nearly a decade, and some that still don't! They also hosted some of the first KING FOR ANOTHER DAY tournaments, with fan HIGH-QUALITY RIPS. |
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| == Social Class ==
| | In later years, an event known as GRAND FEST was hosting PREMIERES for GRAND DAD Fantasy, KING FOR ANOTHER DAY, GRANDmachine, HE THICC 69, and MEME Wars, as of 2019. |
| As most fantasy games (and some sci-fi games, like [[Warhammer 40,000]]) are set in a [[Medieval Stasis|quasi-feudal time period]], their societies tend to be fairly stratified. Feudalism and class systems from history could get quite complicated, but most game writers (and most players, for that matter) abstract things:
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| * Royalty is usually at the top of the chain. There might be some layering if the kingdom is a vassal state of an empire.
| | == HIGH-QUALITY RIPS and MEMES == |
| * Below them are the [[noble]]s. Often, there's too much land for a single royal family to control personally, so they parcel it out to families loyal to theirs, who might in turn divide their chunk into smaller pieces for lesser noble families to manage, and so on. Nobility is broken up into various stratified subclasses from those who rule provinces bigger than most kingdoms to podunk knights who are in charge of a square kilometer of marginal rocky farmland and a dozen dirt farmers.
| | Some HIGH-QUALITY RIPS appear to have seen releases or updates in 5th and 6th edition. Note that The GRAND DAD EMPIRE seem to have been most active between 2012 and 2019. |
| * Some powerful organizations, like a state church or a society of [[wizard]]s, may sit parallel to the nobility -- they aren't families and don't have inherited titles, but they have holdings of comparable size and some kind of royal recognition.
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| * Artisans, [[guild]]s, and similar organizations occupy the next layer down. Their members are skilled and respected, but they're not born into noble families, so they don't get to have castles or armies. As roads improve, ship designs get better and cities grow these classes get more powerful. Most [[player character]]s are (or at least start out) in this layer.
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| * The largest group are [[peasant]]s (or "commoners" for a more polite term) who grow the food that everyone eats. Not all of them are happy in this situation (cf: the [[Wikipedia:French Revolution|French Revolution]]).
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| * The lowest class is the underclass. Pretty small in the grand scheme of things these guys do the really shitty jobs such as being nightsoil men and scavengers who looked through garbage middens for anything they might scavenge. If you're in this class '''''everyone''''' looks down on you.
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| *(Special mention should go here to the "classes" of [[Slavery|slaves and serfs]]. They don't really merit a formal entry as such on this list; Any society that practices the institution will almost never consider the slave population to be "human," or whatever the predominant species is, much less worthy of classification as anything other than chattel.)
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| Usually, the only way to move up a layer is to marry someone from a higher layer (good luck to those peasants in love with princes and princesses), get elevated by members of that layer (you ''might'' get a [[knight]]hood, but your kids won't inherit it), or force your way in by revolution (in which case, watch your back for people looking to do the same to you).
| | * GRAND DAD 2: SPASTIC BOOGALOO |
| | * GRAND DAD 3: THE GAUNTLET OF ASS (FEATURING SMOL NOZOMI, TITO DICKMAN, SPONGE, HE THICC, and SANS UNDERTALE) |
| | * GRAND DAD 4: GRAND DAD IS GOD |
| | * GRAND DAD 5: DEATH TO 1D4CHAN |
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| If one has an interest in East Asian societies and wants to use that as a template, the social hierarchy is structure a bit different due to Confucianism. It's laid out roughly as such...
| | GRAND DAD IS LOVE |
| | | GRAND DAD IS LIFE |
| *Scholars: Scholars are rich people (generally landowners) who have money to dedicate their lives to study of moral philosophy, history, arts and similar. This is a big deal because you get government jobs by passing exams about these things. Their wisdom and learning is to be valued above all. Fortunately for people who are not born into this class you to can become a scholar if you can pass the exams. Though you are going up against people who have been training for them from childhood and about 1 in 500 or so gets a passing grade. But there is paper evidence of it happening so it's a better chance then you might think of a peasant getting into the top of society. In Japan, you substitute [[Samurai]] for Scholars.
| | GRAND DAD WILL CONQUER THIS WIKI |
| *Peasants: Peasants are technically ranked pretty high because they keep everybody fed and clothed. Without them, everyone would starve to death. The cynic would argue that this "high rank" is just a ploy to keep peasants happy and avoid rebellion.
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| *Artisans: Artisans are seen as less critical than peasants (if you don't have shoemakers you have to make your own shoes or go barefoot where as if you don't have peasants you starve to death) but still valued for their skills and abilities in taking what the peasants produce in terms of ore, clay, wood and food and making nice and important things out of them.
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| *Merchants: Merchants are at the bottom of this hierarchy. The peddlers are USEFUL, but they don't create anything. All they do is buy stuff from one person, move it, and sell it to someone else. In practice the merchants gain prominence and influence above their station by virtue of their wealth, much to the annoyance of the Scholar class and generally in spite of their best efforts to keep them down.
| | AND FOR |
| | | SILVAGUNNER |
| ==See Also==
| | [[Category: Meme]][[Category: GRAND DAD]][[Category: GRAND DAD Fantasy]][[Category: Awesome]] |
| * [[Prestige classes]], which are character classes that provide extra specialization at later [[level]]s.
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| * [[Combat roles]], for a partial taxonomy of character classes in terms of combat role.
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THE GRAND DAD EMPIRE ARE a prolific VINESAUCE-centric MEME group based in BEDROCK CITY. Their largest periods of activity seemed to be around the time SILVAGUNNER was terminated, when they were hosting several unofficial VINESAUCE gaming events (which they assure you repeatedly are not official Tournaments and are in no way affiliated with JOEL).
They operated out of the SilvaGunner YouTube channel until it was terminated in 2014, after which they appear to have transitioned briefly to GiivaSunner in September of 2016 before returning to SilvaGunner in June of 2018.
CHANNELS
The original forums appeared to function as four services: preparation and communication in service of coming events, discussion about new HIGH-QUALITY RIPS, MEME showcase, and general VINESAUCE or unrelated discussion.
EVENTS
The VINESAUCE MEME events that The GRAND DAD EMPIRE held were known for being diverse and involved, due in large part to their incredibly strong YTP scene. These events would involve VINESAUCE-branded fan-made HIGH-QUALITY RIPS for SONGS that wouldn't exist for nearly a decade, and some that still don't! They also hosted some of the first KING FOR ANOTHER DAY tournaments, with fan HIGH-QUALITY RIPS.
In later years, an event known as GRAND FEST was hosting PREMIERES for GRAND DAD Fantasy, KING FOR ANOTHER DAY, GRANDmachine, HE THICC 69, and MEME Wars, as of 2019.
HIGH-QUALITY RIPS and MEMES
Some HIGH-QUALITY RIPS appear to have seen releases or updates in 5th and 6th edition. Note that The GRAND DAD EMPIRE seem to have been most active between 2012 and 2019.
- GRAND DAD 2: SPASTIC BOOGALOO
- GRAND DAD 3: THE GAUNTLET OF ASS (FEATURING SMOL NOZOMI, TITO DICKMAN, SPONGE, HE THICC, and SANS UNDERTALE)
- GRAND DAD 4: GRAND DAD IS GOD
- GRAND DAD 5: DEATH TO 1D4CHAN
GRAND DAD IS LOVE
GRAND DAD IS LIFE
GRAND DAD WILL CONQUER THIS WIKI
FOR MEMES
FOR VINESAUCE
AND FOR
SILVAGUNNER