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[NPC Optimization] How best to make a mounted combatant? (My players stay out!)
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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 1535204" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>The lovely thing about getting to design these high-lvl NPCs is that I can give them a ton of history and backstory to excuse the fact that they're ludicrously high levels. That's fun for me!</p><p></p><p>Not that anyone asked, but here's the wilder's backstory. I'll do something similar for our mounted combatant:</p><p></p><p>Dalga the Unslayable was a powerful planar enforcer and bounty hunter who was raised in the streets of Sigil. She is a Maenad, but she had no idea of her heritage or her parentage. She turned from prostitution in the Hive Ward after something inside of her snapped while being beaten up by a customer. She swore that no one would ever hurt her and be unpunished again. She's kept her promise. </p><p></p><p>Taken in by the Sign of One, a faction that taught her the fine points of self-sufficiency, she teamed up with others to make her living as a planar bounty hunter. She's very hard to hurt, and while she tries not to hurt anyone but her prescribed targets she doesn't lose sleep over dispatching innocents in the process. She lives for her wild surges; they're the only thing that truly makes her feel alive, so she gears up for an ambush ahead of time and maxes out all of the powers that she can. She'd much rather be over-prepared and riding a surging high than allow a victim a fair fight.</p><p></p><p>She's older now, scarred and largely retired, but she still hires out for jobs that pay especially handsomely. She secretly misses adventuring, and misses it badly. She feels like she's frittering away her old age, and looks for opportunities to jump back into a more dangerous lifestyle once again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 1535204, member: 2"] The lovely thing about getting to design these high-lvl NPCs is that I can give them a ton of history and backstory to excuse the fact that they're ludicrously high levels. That's fun for me! Not that anyone asked, but here's the wilder's backstory. I'll do something similar for our mounted combatant: Dalga the Unslayable was a powerful planar enforcer and bounty hunter who was raised in the streets of Sigil. She is a Maenad, but she had no idea of her heritage or her parentage. She turned from prostitution in the Hive Ward after something inside of her snapped while being beaten up by a customer. She swore that no one would ever hurt her and be unpunished again. She's kept her promise. Taken in by the Sign of One, a faction that taught her the fine points of self-sufficiency, she teamed up with others to make her living as a planar bounty hunter. She's very hard to hurt, and while she tries not to hurt anyone but her prescribed targets she doesn't lose sleep over dispatching innocents in the process. She lives for her wild surges; they're the only thing that truly makes her feel alive, so she gears up for an ambush ahead of time and maxes out all of the powers that she can. She'd much rather be over-prepared and riding a surging high than allow a victim a fair fight. She's older now, scarred and largely retired, but she still hires out for jobs that pay especially handsomely. She secretly misses adventuring, and misses it badly. She feels like she's frittering away her old age, and looks for opportunities to jump back into a more dangerous lifestyle once again. [/QUOTE]
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