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  • #91
    I'm glad to see that you gave it a try, and you seem to be having a good time at it!

    I won't offer you anything in the way of character development advice, save for this: Let the types of stories you're involved in inform your choices. Not only will it help the character come more fully alive, but your decisions will all acquire an internal consistency that will make your character's story that much more compelling, and focus on your character's story. His motivations, trials, tribulations, deepest desires, failings....for me, the magic has always been in creating memorable characters and then putting them in memorable stories. Everything else is...meh.

    Of course, this from the guy who doesn't usually even let his players see their own stats, so take it with a grain of salt...

    -=Vel=-

    (fond memories of a woodsman character of mine who failed to protect the life of someone he was sworn to guard....he turned to the drink after that, and that one weakness became the basis for a whole series of adventures, temptations, failures, and finally, redemption...good stuff... )
    The list of published books grows. If you're curious to see what sort of stories I weave out, head to Amazon.com and do an author search for "Christopher Hartpence." Help support Candle'Bre, a game created by gamers FOR gamers. All proceeds from my published works go directly to the project.

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    • #92
      Originally posted by Heraclitus
      I've made level 2.

      I'm a human paladin.

      What do I get? Which feat should I choose? What I should never ever pick?
      Do you have Weapon Finesse?
      Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin
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      • #93
        Originally posted by Mrs Snuggles
        As a human paladin, you may want to either take the action surge, which gives you a nice boost, or the hardiness(?) one that gives you extra healing surges--seeing as, as a paladin, when you heal others you spend your surges, not theirs.
        Ok.

        Originally posted by Lorizael


        Have you taken your god's feat yet?
        No, what's Pelor's feat?

        Originally posted by Lord Avalon


        Do you have Weapon Finesse?
        I don't think so, what does it do? Or is that the default weapon proficiency (or something nearly everyone chooses and I probably already have) and you are just teasing me?
        Last edited by Heraclitus; October 10, 2008, 08:50.
        Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
        The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
        The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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        • #94
          Originally posted by Velociryx
          I'm glad to see that you gave it a try, and you seem to be having a good time at it!

          I won't offer you anything in the way of character development advice, save for this: Let the types of stories you're involved in inform your choices. Not only will it help the character come more fully alive, but your decisions will all acquire an internal consistency that will make your character's story that much more compelling, and focus on your character's story. His motivations, trials, tribulations, deepest desires, failings....for me, the magic has always been in creating memorable characters and then putting them in memorable stories. Everything else is...meh.

          Of course, this from the guy who doesn't usually even let his players see their own stats, so take it with a grain of salt...

          -=Vel=-

          (fond memories of a woodsman character of mine who failed to protect the life of someone he was sworn to guard....he turned to the drink after that, and that one weakness became the basis for a whole series of adventures, temptations, failures, and finally, redemption...good stuff... )
          I plan on playing him that way, I got a detailed back story with special emphasis on his family history ... I am so hoping my DM eventually prepares something linked to that.
          Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
          The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
          The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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          • #95


            Let me know how it goes, and keep talking to the DM (let him know what you want/are hoping for). Any DM worth his salt can't ignore that.

            -=Vel=-
            The list of published books grows. If you're curious to see what sort of stories I weave out, head to Amazon.com and do an author search for "Christopher Hartpence." Help support Candle'Bre, a game created by gamers FOR gamers. All proceeds from my published works go directly to the project.

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            • #96
              Originally posted by Heraclitus
              I plan on playing him that way, I got a detailed back story with special emphasis on his family history ... I am so hoping my DM eventually prepares something linked to that.
              Did your character struggle with his father and then eventually leave to pursue his own path?
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              • #97
                Originally posted by Lorizael


                Did your character struggle with his father and then eventually leave to pursue his own path?
                Not really.

                That would be such a cliché.
                Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                • #98
                  Originally posted by DirtyMartini


                  I moved a couple months ago. being a little bit of a stickler for organization, I bought an obscene number of plastic totes. packed 'em and labelled 'em (all four sides and the top). While this made moving in super easy, it also allowed the movers to discover the tote labelled "D&D". I see one of them carrying it out -- he says nothing.

                  So, it's a hot day. An hour later, I'm pitching in and saving myself some dough by helping them load the truck. I come stumbing out of the house lugging a mattress. The smart-guy, eighteen year old stoner mover, goes, "Dude, you must be like some kind of Warlock to carry that mattress all by yourself -- what are you, like level 18?" My girlfriend nearly died laughing.
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                  • #99
                    Originally posted by Lorizael
                    I'm pretty pleased with the new edition (though playing a 3.5 game alongside a 4e one), but I'm pretty pissed at how Wizards has handled this whole thing. *shrug*

                    They've never struck me as a terribly well run company.

                    If I had more free time, and if the other people I game with were up for it, I'd want to try out some of the less well known systems. We're also running a Deadlands game right now. Lots o' fun there.
                    You're in NoVA, right? Got any room in your games? A friend of mine is into role playing but has had some struggles getting a game going. He just moved to Virginia.
                    Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

                    When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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                    • #100
                      Gaithersburg, actually. I'm not running any of the games we're doing right now, but I could certainly ask. We're always looking for fresh meat.
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                      • #101
                        Originally posted by Heraclitus

                        I don't think so, what does it do? Or is that the default weapon proficiency (or something nearly everyone chooses and I probably already have) and you are just teasing me?
                        No, Weapon Finesse is a feat that enables you to use DEX bonus instead of STR bonus when attacking (with light weapons, rapier and some others). I don't know what your stats are, but I'm assuming STR > DEX, and possibly no DEX bonus.

                        If that be the case, then it would be of no gameplay value to take this feat, but immense roleplaying value:

                        See the dimwitted, rapier-wielding paladin clunk into battle in his heavy armor - en garde!

                        So, yes, I'm teasing. Hence the
                        Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin
                        Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
                        One more turn .... One more turn .... | WWTSD

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                        • #102
                          I think there's some edition confusion here.
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                          "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                          • #103
                            I use 3.5
                            Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                            The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                            The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                            • #104
                              Then ignore what Q Cubed and I told you.
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                              "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                              • #105
                                Whoa, I thought you were on 4 also. Yeah, ignore my advice then, I don't know anything about 3.5.
                                B♭3

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