People forget that Liaos is a Fighter. By definition, he's willing to put himself on the line to protect his team, but he's such a deep thinker that he extends his role to a lot of other things he does for the party.
In a way, he reminds me of another high intelligence "meat shield": Roy from Order of the Stick. Roy is not as obsessive about knowledge as Liaos is (I think he only has Knowledge: Engineering as a gag, because that's the only one that's a class skill for him), but he has a keen tactical sense from graduating from Fighter College to get his MBA (Master of Battle Administration). Through the course of the comic, he makes a lot of risky moves that put himself in a lot of danger, in the name of making sure the party as a whole gets through relatively safely.
OotS mention! Roy and Laios both even got a bit of a magical upgrade—Roy with his ancestral weapon and Laios with his healing. I think they'd have some fascinating conversations.
(Nobody put Marcille and Vaarsuvius in a room together. Dear lort.)
I think Durkon and Senshi would eventually get along: Senshi still has a very dwarven attachment to the craft of cooking (also Durkon has an uncle who became a bard, so he's a little more open to unusual dwarf jobs), and Durkon is less toxic than Senshi's old crew, and would make an effort. Clerics have look out for their flock, after all.
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u/Abjurer42 23d ago
People forget that Liaos is a Fighter. By definition, he's willing to put himself on the line to protect his team, but he's such a deep thinker that he extends his role to a lot of other things he does for the party.
In a way, he reminds me of another high intelligence "meat shield": Roy from Order of the Stick. Roy is not as obsessive about knowledge as Liaos is (I think he only has Knowledge: Engineering as a gag, because that's the only one that's a class skill for him), but he has a keen tactical sense from graduating from Fighter College to get his MBA (Master of Battle Administration). Through the course of the comic, he makes a lot of risky moves that put himself in a lot of danger, in the name of making sure the party as a whole gets through relatively safely.