An O.L.D. Conan

[Morrus]

I thought I'd put together an example of an advanced O.L.D. character. I went with Conan, but to be honest I don't know much about Conan, so this may not reflect him much. The main point, though, is that this is an example of a fairly advanced barbarian type character.

I haven't given him any decent equipment. Many of his tradition exploits are adjustments to derived stats, so you can see the final scores (high move and jump, that sort of thing) but I didn't list them as exploits specifically.

This was Primitive, Barbarian 5, Brawler 3, Ranger 2. Total of 11 traditions, so a dice pool cap of 11d6.

 

[Morrus]

And here he is with an extra three grades of Burglar (since someone told me he wasn't roguish enough). That's now a 14d6 dice pool cap.

 

[hirou]

A funny thing, this actually sparks my interest in OLD, would you consider building other well-known characters? Or Zeitgeist conversion...

Ps: am I the only one with disappearing topic prefixes in "EN Publishing" subforum? I mean the little icons next to topic name, they simply miss

 

[Morrus]

I'd have to be familiar with the characters. And there would be copyright issues, so I probably couldn't name them.

 

[hirou]

How is Conan different then? I can swear I saw a build "Darth Vader" somewhere at WotC 4ed forums...

 

[Morrus]

Earlier works are public domain.

I'm sure fans have made Vaders. I doubt WotC has! At least, not since their license ended.

 

[Morrus]

I played with the layout a bit more.

 

[Gradine]

I like that he's got Carousing twice; certainly captures the feel of the character.

I've got a question I can't seem to find the answer to (at least in the O.L.D. playtest document and is somewhat related. When you go up a grade in a tradition/career, do you always get the listed attribute bonus, or only during character creation?

 

[Morrus]

I like that he's got Carousing twice; certainly captures the feel of the character.

I've got a question I can't seem to find the answer to (at least in the O.L.D. playtest document and is somewhat related. When you go up a grade in a tradition/career, do you always get the listed attribute bonus, or only during character creation?

Always, yep.

And darnit! Well spotted on that double carousing entry! Most characters only have 4-6 skills; this was an example of a pretty epic one!

As a bonus, here's a look at the upcoming starter set. It's GORGEOUS!

 

[Morrus]

This one was fun. A young, brand new starship captain right at the beginning of his career, long before he becomes the legend he is destined to be.