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Velmont

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A 27th level character... what story could have a 27th level character, as he would most liekly have a long and interetsing one. Where does his story starts? I have no idea of teh world you want to play in, so I'll try to give no name and just familiar sight of the people surroudning him and the place he has visited... so let's start the story of this... let's call him the Wanderer. Why a wanderer? Someone who has such skills and knowledge that only a 27th character can have must have travel a lot. He could be some leader of nation, but I prefer to play someone who has no more responsability.

-=-=-= Wanderer Story =-=-=-

X years ago (level X)

My name is Volindar. I am a storyteller. I'll tell you the story of a wanderer that came many years ago, in this small town. He was only travelling, between two points. Where did he came from, I do not know. Where he was heading, the story doesn't tell. But I know one thing, here, some event important in his life happen.

He was suppose to just pass the night here and leave the day after. Talk to Conrad, the old Innkeeper, he will tell you I am not lying, as it was Conrad who received him. But a messenger came to him. The messenger was coming from anotehr direction. He gave him a letter. After he has read it, the wanderer entered some fury. He smashed a table in two. His anger was so great that everyone in the room was scared by his reaction. He returned to his room and awaited there. He spend a whole week in his room. Conrad never bother him, he was only hoping his customer would leave without doing further damage. He didn't even asked for a meal. Only a few faint sound once in a while could tell he was still there. On the ninth night, just as the moon was full, as it was litghing the bottom of of teh well with her rays, he exit his room. He walks on the central place and await next to the well.

He didn't await long. A cloaked figure came to him. The cloaked figure started to talk to him. The wanderer was boiling with anger. At a moment, he raised his hand and hit the cloaked figure falled on the ground under the hit. The hit was so violent that the hood falled. The figure was a lovely lady. Her light and golden hairs was reflecting the moonlight. Her eyes was silvery and was enough to seduce the first man coming. But the wanderer wasn't the first man, and didn't seemed affected by her charm, and she didn't seemed hurt by his punch. She simply standed up and stared a moment at the wanderer. She handed him a silvery object and stared at it a moment. He closed his hand over the object and put it in his pocket. From that moment, the wanderer lost something of himself. His anger changed into some sort of despair. The lady left him and he stayed by the well for hours. when the moon was about to dissapear at the horizon, he simply throwed a silver coins into the well and returned to his room.

The day after, he left the village without a word. He turns back on the road he came. Before leaving, he left over an hundread gold pieces to Conrad. He was never seen again in this village. I'll tell you more about him another day.

-=-=-= Wanderer Concept =-=-=-
Ok... starts to like that story, still open to a lot of possibility, but with that, i suppose he would be stronger than the average, so he will most likely end as a warrior or holy warrior of some sort. I think playing some kind of divine caster/warrior could be interesting, but let's see where this story lead us.

I've not yet decided who is the lady, what is the silver object that he was given, what he was doing on that road, why he has turn back and what broke his spirit like that.

By the way, if there is thing you want to add to this story, or if you don't like it, tell it. I'll continue another day.
 
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Wrahn

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You still have room? I have been following the thread, but I had assumed that you would start a new OOC when you were ready to run and enough people here to convince you that there was still interest, so my posting was irrelevant.
 

Vertexx69

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Here we go,

Tenneth, The Trajedy of the Underdark

While picking mushrooms in the underdark for her potions, a drow cleric happened upon a beautiful winged man fighting an ultraloth. Her dark nature getting the better of her, she watched the fight until the demon delivered a devasting rend to the deva's head. Unfortunately the beast turned on her after it had slew the angel. After several days her ravaged and unconsious form was found by others from her order. A month later the cleric discovered she carried its child. To hide her eternal shame she concealed it from everyone. When Tenneth was born, his "demonic" ancestory was apparent. His mother hid him as best she could, but boys being boys he escaped every chance he could as he grew.
Always cloaked to hide his silky black bat wings, the boy's fighting prowess soon eclipsed that of the other drow children 20 or 30 years his senior. Unfortunately that was excactly what drew Lolths attention to him. Tenneth was brought before Lolth with his mother, who knew her life was over at that instant. Lolth's gaze searing a hole strait through her. A smile, the likes of which could not have been any more vicious and malevolent from any deity with only 1 mouth, slowly spread across the goddess's face as her eyes turned to the boy. His mother, out of pure reflex, threw herself in front of her son to shield him from the deity's wrath. But even as she clasped him to her body, the chitinous clack of the childs new limbs made her recoil in disgust. Then the new half-fiend drider boy vanished.
Lolth's vengence had made a "True Believer" out of the boy as he found himself alone in a strange blue-ceilinged cave that was larger than anywhere he had ever seen. Wandering the land, his faith kept him from degenerating into a mindless killer. The light did not hurt his eyes anymore however his new body ached at every step since he now had 8 legs (it took him less than a month to reach his full large size). Then Lolth's voice chimed inside his skull "You were never meant to be my little abomination. You can no longer proceed down the clerics path your wretch of a mother started you on, find another way and perhaps we will see what you can make of your future."
So abandoned by his people, his mother and even by his god, Tenneth went out into world above ground to find a new path. Lolth's competitive streak was deeply apparent as he found himself to be a natural bowmen. Flying and hunting became favorite pass times for Tenneth as adventures unfolded around him, his arcane talents immediately melding with his skills as an archer.

Tenneth, Neutral-Evil Half-Fiend Drider /Fighter2/Arcane Aracher11
 
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Rino

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all concepts are good, races of destiny and ebberon are good. races of series was it posted on. so i allow all those books, gives good inside on your characters.

build a PC and I'll take a look who gets in. going for a balanced group.

@vertex: I wont allow celestial and CN and loth as deity
 
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Rino

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Wrahn said:
You still have room? I have been following the thread, but I had assumed that you would start a new OOC when you were ready to run and enough people here to convince you that there was still interest, so my posting was irrelevant.

new OOC will be posted
 

Pyrex

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While I don't have a lot of flavor text to post, here's the concept I'm working on:

Specialist Abjurer with the Master Specialist and Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil PrC's, specializing in wards and magical defenses. Probably court wizard to a good ruler of a good kingdom.

Since I'm likely to have an extensive set of spellbooks, how do you want me to handle acquisition of spells beyond what you automatically get by levelling?
 

Rino

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Pyrex said:
While I don't have a lot of flavor text to post, here's the concept I'm working on:

Specialist Abjurer with the Master Specialist and Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil PrC's, specializing in wards and magical defenses. Probably court wizard to a good ruler of a good kingdom.

Since I'm likely to have an extensive set of spellbooks, how do you want me to handle acquisition of spells beyond what you automatically get by levelling?

the idea is good, But I dont realy get the last part. you mean the bonus spell through INT mod?
 

Paper_Bard

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I was thinking an human Half-Fey Fighter 10/duelist 10/ Street Fighter 5/

Have to look back at the half-fey template again though.
Duelist is from DMG, street fighter I think is from either complete Warrior or complete adventurer, Half-Fey template is from Fiend Folio, which despite being 3.0 has been updated to 3.5 through a document WOC sent out, and the template never changed. LA +2 if I'm not mistaken.

Another possiblity I was thinking of is an elven werewolf cleric with the prestige class, can't remember what, it's from Complete divine, that gives him more contorl over bieng a werewolf.

My final idea would be a human level 27 warlock.

What do you think. The first and last seem most appealing to me.
 


Pyrex

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Rino said:
the idea is good, But I dont realy get the last part. you mean the bonus spell through INT mod?

No, I mean I want to buy more spells and scribe them into my spellbook.

I assume that at the very least I'll have to pay the 100gp/page* (i.e. 100gp/spell level) to scribe them into my spellbooks; but there is still the question of how much I have to pay to acquire the spell in the first place. The typical options would be to either pay SL*50gp (the listed cost to copy a spell out of another wizard's spellbook) or SL*CL*25 (to buy a scroll).

I've also seen DM's rule that the acquisition expense be ignored (i.e., you generally don't bill PC's for every scroll they've ever used, so that extends to scrolls that were scribed instead of cast); but you still need to pay the 100gp/page for spellbooks, which also seems perfectly reasonable to me and results in less bookkeeping.

*Of course, past 10th level or so most wizards aren't actually paying 100gp/page for typical spellbooks, they're using Blessed Books for ~12.5gp/page.
 

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