Reminds me of this thread way back on the old World of Darkness forums on White-wolf, it was a thread singing the glories of my character... it kept going until the thread limit and then another thread started up... and then they deleted the forums because they made the current ones. xD
It was funny, and even though it was about my character, it was an ego boost.
Reminds me of this thread way back on the old World of Darkness forums on White-wolf, it was a thread singing the glories of my character... it kept going until the thread limit and then another thread started up... and then they deleted the forums because they made the current ones. xD
It was funny, and even though it was about my character, it was an ego boost.
Reminds me of a thread we had back on the old STAMods board...thread went so long, the database actually lost entire pages of the thread.
I'm not allowed to play Vampire anymore. Because I did what I always do and subconsciously min-maxed my character without meaning to. It's a...habit?
Anyway, I made a character that would have had super-low rank among vampires but would have kicked everyone's butt through magic and pistols, was rich as sin, and was untouchable because of my connections to the mob.
Anyway, Andorians are cool. HAHAHA! See what I did there?
I'm not allowed to play Vampire anymore. Because I did what I always do and subconsciously min-maxed my character without meaning to. It's a...habit?
Heh, I used to do that up until the last couple years. All my characters in games would be freaks inept at everything minus one skill, which they did better than anyone in the universe. More recently I've been appreciating the aspects of characters not quite so tilted. I've found that spending just a little time improving the weakest skills to acceptable levels tends to get rid of a potential Achilles' heel down the road. The same thing works in academics to some degree. A little drawing practice to stimulate the other side of the brain can help out on that pesky logic problem that I'm stuck on... but that's extra nerdy so it gets black ninja text! Huwahhhh!
-karate chops self in neck-
-dies-
Heh, I used to do that up until the last couple years. All my characters in games would be freaks inept at everything minus one skill, which they did better than anyone in the universe. More recently I've been appreciating the aspects of characters not quite so tilted. I've found that spending just a little time improving the weakest skills to acceptable levels tends to get rid of a potential Achilles' heel down the road. The same thing works in academics to some degree. A little drawing practice to stimulate the other side of the brain can help out on that pesky logic problem that I'm stuck on... but that's extra nerdy so it gets black ninja text! Huwahhhh!
-karate chops self in neck-
-dies-
No, I create characters that don't even really have an Achilles Heel.
So, I made a DnD Rogue. My highest stat was Charisma, followed by Dexterity and Intelligence. My lowest stat was my Wisdom, which was 7. But this was covered somewhat by taking a feat that allowed me to substitute my Charisma score for my Wisdom score in saving throws.
I then multiclassed into a couple levels of Fighter to pick up all the two-weapon fighting skills. Then I also later dabbled in some Swordsage. And I also had the skill 'Use Magic Device' and a wide array of wands, scrolls, and staves, allowing me to to cast wizard, cleric, and bard spells. My high Charisma essentially made it impossible for me to fail at using said devices.
Including using a wand of Improved Invisibility. So just about every attack I made was a sneak attack. And I had 2 short swords (no additional penalties to using 2!) with the Holy, Chaotic, and an elemental modifier on them. And I took Weapon Finesse: Short Sword. Combined with almost always catching the other guy unawares and having a high attack bonus, I almost never missed.
And I was Chaotic Good, so I was able to pick up a special skill that increased my sneak attack damage to d8 holy damage against evil creatures.
And I carried around 2 modified Short Swords of the Emissary, each of whoch gave me a +8 AC. And a feat called 2-Weapon Defense that gave me a +2 AC when wielding 2 weapons. And another feat called Twin Sword Style gave me another +2 AC when wielding 2 swords.
And with multiple attacks on a full attack action eventually giving me ten attacks I was able to kill gods in one turn. And I did kill gods. Several in fact. Three evil ones and a lawful neutral one.
And throughout half the campaign nobody noticed what I was doing because I roleplayed as the goofy rogue that nobody trusted because I was constantly changing everything I said, from my name to origin to where I learned to do what I do. And I had a strange obsession with my hat. Then when they noticed what was happening when I stormed a tower of evil wizards and killed them all. And took their treasure.
And that was also where I gave my epic bluff of 'We're not really a band of adventurers. We're actually some traveling carpet salespeople here to give you a free quote on carpeting your evil lair! But we need to know where you keep the traps and all that so we can fully carpet your lair."
My AC (when you could see me) was higher than the Paladin's, I could cast spells like the sorcerer and cleric, and I did more damage than anyone else in the party. The game ended when I started using the Clone spell on myself followed by a powered up Charm person, cast as a sorcerer, and then using this army of Me-clones to take over the world.
No, I create characters that don't even really have an Achilles Heel.
So, I made a DnD Rogue. My highest stat was Charisma, followed by Dexterity and Intelligence. My lowest stat was my Wisdom, which was 7. But this was covered somewhat by taking a feat that allowed me to substitute my Charisma score for my Wisdom score in saving throws.
They have a feat for that!?! I missed that one, but then I never played a rogue.
I was a ranger with charisma for a dump stat. My DM reminded me at every encounter -- people would attack me first because I looked revolting, but not revolting enough to benefit from it in any way. If I missed a night, the group would "babysit" my character and send him into dangerous situations first. I was melted by one of those green acid dragons on such a night.... they sent me to negotiate with it while they snuck away.
If you had my DM, I'm guessing he would've had you kill the wrong tower full of wizards, or something along those lines. (I'm guessing that feat only worked during combat?) He didn't let anyone get away with low stats. We had a barbarian (low int) who needed help getting dressed before battle, would injure himself randomly, and would require us to explain every plan to him a couple extra times. It was good fun though!
edit: fyi, my ranger was a male elf named Myrtle....
I was the goofy rogue. I was easily distracted, egotistical, had several OCD disorders including the big one (hats), had poor impulse control, an unquenchable curiosity, and I caused chaos for the sheer fact that I liked chaos.
I took some 'orc TRIBBLE' from a dungeon and planted it on the Paladin, only to 'discover' it later. Then enrolled said Paladin in a support group back at his temple to deal with his orc TRIBBLE addiction. I empathized with him, saying I guess it could get lonely being a warrior of law and virtue.
All of this played into my stealth maxing. Like I said, nobody even noticed what I was doing until I was knocking off gods like they were chumps.
And my charisma when that character retired was in the 60s.
They have a feat for that!?! I missed that one, but then I never played a rogue.
I was a ranger with charisma for a dump stat. My DM reminded me at every encounter -- people would attack me first because I looked revolting, but not revolting enough to benefit from it in any way. If I missed a night, the group would "babysit" my character and send him into dangerous situations first. I was melted by one of those green acid dragons on such a night.... they sent me to negotiate with it while they snuck away.
If you had my DM, I'm guessing he would've had you kill the wrong tower full of wizards, or something along those lines. (I'm guessing that feat only worked during combat?) He didn't let anyone get away with low stats. We had a barbarian (low int) who needed help getting dressed before battle, would injure himself randomly, and would require us to explain every plan to him a couple extra times. It was good fun though!
edit: fyi, my ranger was a male elf named Myrtle....
My Orc has int as his dump stat. While he doesn't need help getting dressed, he's completely illiterate, and tends to ask really stupid questions *to a man dressed all in red* "why ye known as the red baron?" The redneck accent really sells it.
Although I really did like the time he crossed a border with false papers declaring him to be a priest of Corellian (elven god of magic or something) and he said "Kord be with you" (Kord being a human god of war) to the border patrol guard. Bonus points the border patrol guard watched as my half-orc was given the false papers.:D
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lol thanks.
Reminds me of this thread way back on the old World of Darkness forums on White-wolf, it was a thread singing the glories of my character... it kept going until the thread limit and then another thread started up... and then they deleted the forums because they made the current ones. xD
It was funny, and even though it was about my character, it was an ego boost.
*waves* Hi Aisling!
Reminds me of a thread we had back on the old STAMods board...thread went so long, the database actually lost entire pages of the thread.
Anyway, I made a character that would have had super-low rank among vampires but would have kicked everyone's butt through magic and pistols, was rich as sin, and was untouchable because of my connections to the mob.
Anyway, Andorians are cool. HAHAHA! See what I did there?
Heh, I used to do that up until the last couple years. All my characters in games would be freaks inept at everything minus one skill, which they did better than anyone in the universe. More recently I've been appreciating the aspects of characters not quite so tilted. I've found that spending just a little time improving the weakest skills to acceptable levels tends to get rid of a potential Achilles' heel down the road.
The same thing works in academics to some degree. A little drawing practice to stimulate the other side of the brain can help out on that pesky logic problem that I'm stuck on... but that's extra nerdy so it gets black ninja text! Huwahhhh!
-karate chops self in neck-
-dies-
No, I create characters that don't even really have an Achilles Heel.
So, I made a DnD Rogue. My highest stat was Charisma, followed by Dexterity and Intelligence. My lowest stat was my Wisdom, which was 7. But this was covered somewhat by taking a feat that allowed me to substitute my Charisma score for my Wisdom score in saving throws.
I then multiclassed into a couple levels of Fighter to pick up all the two-weapon fighting skills. Then I also later dabbled in some Swordsage. And I also had the skill 'Use Magic Device' and a wide array of wands, scrolls, and staves, allowing me to to cast wizard, cleric, and bard spells. My high Charisma essentially made it impossible for me to fail at using said devices.
Including using a wand of Improved Invisibility. So just about every attack I made was a sneak attack. And I had 2 short swords (no additional penalties to using 2!) with the Holy, Chaotic, and an elemental modifier on them. And I took Weapon Finesse: Short Sword. Combined with almost always catching the other guy unawares and having a high attack bonus, I almost never missed.
And I was Chaotic Good, so I was able to pick up a special skill that increased my sneak attack damage to d8 holy damage against evil creatures.
And I carried around 2 modified Short Swords of the Emissary, each of whoch gave me a +8 AC. And a feat called 2-Weapon Defense that gave me a +2 AC when wielding 2 weapons. And another feat called Twin Sword Style gave me another +2 AC when wielding 2 swords.
And with multiple attacks on a full attack action eventually giving me ten attacks I was able to kill gods in one turn. And I did kill gods. Several in fact. Three evil ones and a lawful neutral one.
And throughout half the campaign nobody noticed what I was doing because I roleplayed as the goofy rogue that nobody trusted because I was constantly changing everything I said, from my name to origin to where I learned to do what I do. And I had a strange obsession with my hat. Then when they noticed what was happening when I stormed a tower of evil wizards and killed them all. And took their treasure.
And that was also where I gave my epic bluff of 'We're not really a band of adventurers. We're actually some traveling carpet salespeople here to give you a free quote on carpeting your evil lair! But we need to know where you keep the traps and all that so we can fully carpet your lair."
My AC (when you could see me) was higher than the Paladin's, I could cast spells like the sorcerer and cleric, and I did more damage than anyone else in the party. The game ended when I started using the Clone spell on myself followed by a powered up Charm person, cast as a sorcerer, and then using this army of Me-clones to take over the world.
They have a feat for that!?! I missed that one, but then I never played a rogue.
I was a ranger with charisma for a dump stat. My DM reminded me at every encounter -- people would attack me first because I looked revolting, but not revolting enough to benefit from it in any way. If I missed a night, the group would "babysit" my character and send him into dangerous situations first. I was melted by one of those green acid dragons on such a night.... they sent me to negotiate with it while they snuck away.
If you had my DM, I'm guessing he would've had you kill the wrong tower full of wizards, or something along those lines. (I'm guessing that feat only worked during combat?) He didn't let anyone get away with low stats. We had a barbarian (low int) who needed help getting dressed before battle, would injure himself randomly, and would require us to explain every plan to him a couple extra times. It was good fun though!
edit: fyi, my ranger was a male elf named Myrtle....
I took some 'orc TRIBBLE' from a dungeon and planted it on the Paladin, only to 'discover' it later. Then enrolled said Paladin in a support group back at his temple to deal with his orc TRIBBLE addiction. I empathized with him, saying I guess it could get lonely being a warrior of law and virtue.
All of this played into my stealth maxing. Like I said, nobody even noticed what I was doing until I was knocking off gods like they were chumps.
And my charisma when that character retired was in the 60s.
My Orc has int as his dump stat. While he doesn't need help getting dressed, he's completely illiterate, and tends to ask really stupid questions *to a man dressed all in red* "why ye known as the red baron?" The redneck accent really sells it.
Although I really did like the time he crossed a border with false papers declaring him to be a priest of Corellian (elven god of magic or something) and he said "Kord be with you" (Kord being a human god of war) to the border patrol guard. Bonus points the border patrol guard watched as my half-orc was given the false papers.:D
*loses train of thought on the gobbledygook*