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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5348390" data-attributes="member: 29398">One suggestion that hasn't come out yet is to let the combats roll as they are, but focus more on what your character does when the dice aren't rolling.  Give it a serious personality makeover.  Take whatever the character has - alignment, established traits or habits, etc. - and go just a little over the top with it.  Make every word your character says unforgettable - at least until the next one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  In short, give your character - well, character.Once you've done that, the personality will creep in when the dice *are* rolling; for example, you ought to be able to ignore the repetitiveness of combat much more easliy when you're busy trying to think up a new battlecry for every single swing you take! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Some of my most memorable characters have been mechanically bland 1e Fighters, due in large part to the personalities I gave 'em; not least of which is my namesake here.  I've played him on and off for 26 years now (in fact, completely out of the blue he showed up last weekend in a game I play in due to a wish [not mine] that didn't exactly work as planned) and he still rocks out!Lan-"yeah, that'd be me"-efan</blockquote>

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