He remained unusually unchanged after his first metamorphosis, smaller and weaker than his peers. Even after living alone and evolving again, he is still weaker than most others of his age. The large age gap between him and everyone in the caravan is the only reason he is stronger.
He IS smarter though, from sheer breadth of experience.
>76 year old Fighter/Barbarian
>Adventured with a dwarf in his youth and the two promised to keep adventuring until they meet each other again
>Works 50+ years of avoiding conflict with relatively low-risk adventuring jobs like being a guide, or assisting with caravans
>Getting old, making one last effort to find his Dwarf friend after all these years before he keels over
>Has something like 10 dex/str/con, 16 wisdom, 15 int, 10 cha
>Also owns a dog he uses to carry some of his stuff and for it's hearing/smell
2 sessions into the campaign, he impressed his group of young, arrogant party members by
>Detecting traps and setting them off from safety/getting the chaotic dumb fighter out of a trap when he fell into a pit
>stabilizing and dragging someone to safety when they were knock unconscious in a fight against a mob of goblins
>Used his dog to sniff out a goblin ambush in 2 occasions
>Also used his dog to sniff out the dragon wyrmling the party was looking for
>Body blocking the party wizard from a dragon wyrmling hit, then proceeding to diffuse the situation with offerings of gold and other trinkets
>Going into rage for the first and only time when his dog was almost killed by a goblin
>Surprised the party by capturing another goblin and nonchalantly started cutting it's fingers off and stabilizing it with his medkit so it wouldn't die until it agreed to guide them through the dungeon
>Doused the goblin in oil and lit a torch for if it ever speaks in louder than a whisper
He kinda went into edgy territory after the whole dog almost dying incident. He was supposed to be the party chaperone and more of a laid back old man, but now I'm thinking that he actually has his fair share of battle experience. I was thinking that he'd just be super racist and if you were of a race that wasnt widely accepted as "good and wholesome", then he considers you an animal with no rights.
As someone who's also playing the oldest and wisest in his party, I do suggest that you keep this type of character in more of a "support" role than anything. It's the elder's job to guide the tyouth, not join them in the front lines if it can be avoided.
Since she's fighting giant creatures, maybe she'd want to get some sort of moun. The extra mobility is usually pretty helpful.
Shit this was meant for you, not myself.
I had this idea of a half orc who came from very loving parents who babied and spoiled him and now he wants to go adventuring to get his parents the greatest 20 year anniversary gift/get THEM a present for HIS birthday in celebration of going against the stereotype that all half orcs are rape babies and fucked up.
Dunno what to do with him as far as actual gameplay though.
An aasimar Warlock/Sorcerer who took a pact with a demon just to prove that his own celestial magic is better and stronger than any evil magic the demon could give him.
Going to be playing a recently escaped physic Slave girl in an upcoming Gamma world game. She was raised in a secluded compound for most of her life along with some other kids. They were fed a steady diet of Magic Mushrooms and LSD to bring out their full potential. She specializes in causing mind shredding hallucinations and the occasional brain hemorrhage. Just before her and the other children where about to be sent to the totally real mother ship she was kidnapped by slavers and escaped with the help of my buddy's character who's a military grade kill-bot from before the world went tits-up. Pic-related is the closest thing I have to our dynamic duo
cleric that was dropped off at a temple as a baby and raised very strictly. wake up, training, prayer, gruel and water, more training, study, prayer, more training type stuff. he discovered that clerics in another temple in a nearby town did not have to do the same kinda strict bullshit, but would drink and party and be sociable with everyone in the town, while they were respected but treated with caution by their own town.
long story short, other town falls to a plague, the medicinal knowledge of his order manages to keep their town mostly safe, so the now freshly risen of the nearby town (a side effect of the plague) and so, the clerics used their training - both physical, mental and spiritual and managed to repel it.
having squashed any and all doubts of his own duties and responsibilities so does he set out on the world, in an attempt to do as much as he possibly can, even if it would mean carrying the world on his shoulders.
Sounds fucking radical dude! How do you plan to play out their interactions? Do you plan on ever having your Warlock use some demonic power to get the party out of a tight jam, or are you gonna wait and see what the dice say? Will they ever come together to defeat a common foe with a big "Heaven and Hell" attack? I need to know more
We're starting lvl 9 and I realized that was high enough level for a Wizard to get Permanency so...
My experienced Halfling Wizard lost a bet with his familiar, and now his permanently reduced Tiny ass has to 'ride bitch' to a permanently enlarged raven "wizard" for a full year of adventuring.
I like this because it gives me an opportunity to play a high level character that's still legitimately dazzled with childlike excitement at the prospect of fisting mother nature and flipping off father time. The actual halfling wizard himself is a bit too bookish and boring and aloof to really enjoy his philandering with the cosmos, but the novelty hasn't worn off on the recently-intelligent raven.
That and I kinda want the raven familiar to be just a little bit of a dick to his master.
Suggestions for source material? Character personalities that fit this? Anyone got good character art of this sort of thing?
Failing that, anyone got birds (preferably non anthromorphised) in either dapper or wizardlike attire?