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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4611588" data-attributes="member: 35909"><p>I'd have to break it up, there's been too many concepts I haven't been able to do.</p><p></p><p>For a background story, I was excited to make a Warblade "Samurai" of the Toyotomi clan, hoping to have his own little plotline setup chronologically a few years after the Seige of Osaka, with him presumably being one of the last living members of the Toyotomi family. (It would have been cool if it were part of the plot that Lady Yodo and Hideyori faked their deaths with body doubles [which would have burned in the fires to be too difficult to ID] and turned up alive later on.)</p><p></p><p>My character would be living as an outcast in a far-off land, trying to plan his next course of action. Grappling with the desire to proudly bear the golden gourd but yet needing to be secretive and disguised to survive in his homeland; wanting to overthrow the evil and despicable Tokugawa regime, but realizing the revolution would have to be done in a way that didn't plunge the land into chaos, lest Ieyasu's BS reasons for usurping power become justified.</p><p></p><p>It looked good, even had several other players on board to be friends and allies -- a Shimazu heir, one of the Sanada braves... but soon realized: this sort of thing had me in the center spotlight, I needed to be fully a player. But no one else seemed to know or care as much about the historical backdrop, so someone else being the DM wasn't going to happen.</p><p></p><p>Mechanically, I loved my Goliath Martial (feat) Wilderness Rogue / (racial variant) Lion Totem Wolf Totem Whirling Frenzy Barbarian, twinked to all hell to deliver crazy offense and fight like a circus performer, able to send guys twice his size flying across the room, bowling them into allies and knocking them both down, and more. Ironically, I built him more for combat tricks and versatility (outdoors skills, trapfinding, magic item use, able to do nearly all combat maneuvers well, acrobatics...) than pure damage, yet it was his damage output that drew the most anger from another player. The constant complaints of "broken" weren't all; I chose to RP him as a poor speaker of common and so despite his decent int score (whenever he spoke in Gol-Kaa or communicated telepathically he sounded very eloquent), he alternated between first and third erson and used a broken sentence structure. This led nearly all the other players, even the DM ("I love Forge's numbers, but can't stand his character") to really not like him. He effectively got retired from sheer unpopularity. I'm still bitter about it. I mean...the guy complaining about his damage had a character that did even more!</p><p></p><p>On the DM side, I REALLY want to do a Ronin Warriors themed game, but haven't gotten enough of my close friends hooked on the anime yet for it to catch steam. Maybe some day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 4611588, member: 35909"] I'd have to break it up, there's been too many concepts I haven't been able to do. For a background story, I was excited to make a Warblade "Samurai" of the Toyotomi clan, hoping to have his own little plotline setup chronologically a few years after the Seige of Osaka, with him presumably being one of the last living members of the Toyotomi family. (It would have been cool if it were part of the plot that Lady Yodo and Hideyori faked their deaths with body doubles [which would have burned in the fires to be too difficult to ID] and turned up alive later on.) My character would be living as an outcast in a far-off land, trying to plan his next course of action. Grappling with the desire to proudly bear the golden gourd but yet needing to be secretive and disguised to survive in his homeland; wanting to overthrow the evil and despicable Tokugawa regime, but realizing the revolution would have to be done in a way that didn't plunge the land into chaos, lest Ieyasu's BS reasons for usurping power become justified. It looked good, even had several other players on board to be friends and allies -- a Shimazu heir, one of the Sanada braves... but soon realized: this sort of thing had me in the center spotlight, I needed to be fully a player. But no one else seemed to know or care as much about the historical backdrop, so someone else being the DM wasn't going to happen. Mechanically, I loved my Goliath Martial (feat) Wilderness Rogue / (racial variant) Lion Totem Wolf Totem Whirling Frenzy Barbarian, twinked to all hell to deliver crazy offense and fight like a circus performer, able to send guys twice his size flying across the room, bowling them into allies and knocking them both down, and more. Ironically, I built him more for combat tricks and versatility (outdoors skills, trapfinding, magic item use, able to do nearly all combat maneuvers well, acrobatics...) than pure damage, yet it was his damage output that drew the most anger from another player. The constant complaints of "broken" weren't all; I chose to RP him as a poor speaker of common and so despite his decent int score (whenever he spoke in Gol-Kaa or communicated telepathically he sounded very eloquent), he alternated between first and third erson and used a broken sentence structure. This led nearly all the other players, even the DM ("I love Forge's numbers, but can't stand his character") to really not like him. He effectively got retired from sheer unpopularity. I'm still bitter about it. I mean...the guy complaining about his damage had a character that did even more! On the DM side, I REALLY want to do a Ronin Warriors themed game, but haven't gotten enough of my close friends hooked on the anime yet for it to catch steam. Maybe some day. [/QUOTE]
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