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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5568981" data-attributes="member: 5202">I enjoy the CharOp forums as I've always liked making characters and I had a bad experience when I started in a Dark Sun game recently.  I made an Assault Swordmage.  I thought he was ok when I built him, but I had the worst rolling.  Even when I did connect, things weren't really meshing well.  I was a crappy defender and didn't contribute much to fights.  I switched to a Wizard and it's been great since.  My rolling cleared up for some reason and even when I have bad rolls, I have so many Miss effects.  Then again, I hit a majority of enemies w/a Fireball, but rolled 4 1s, so sometimes you just can't win <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=":)" />I designed a Shielding Swordmage the other day and it stomps the crap out of the old Assault Swordmage I had.  I read the CharOp post about Swordmages and made some better choices.  Given the problems I had early on, I'm all about weapon accuracy so I end up making sure to stack as much as I can.  Not hitting is no fun.  I want to have fun.Also, chalk me up in favor of the DM not pulling punches.  If we're having a bad day of things, well maybe a hero or 2 will fall.  That happens.  The GI Joe cartoon and comic were fun, but the cartoon never saw any serious harm and it tool till issue #109 for them to really start killing some Joes off.  The comic was better for putting characters in real danger.  I like the Raymond Fiest Riftwar saga.  He's had over 20 books out in the same world and the timeline has moved on.  He has killed major characters from illness, ion battle, heck some have died of old age!  No one is safe, anything can happen.  I like that.  Yes, the heroes in 4E are heroic and the general goal of the game is that they win, but you can win and still suffer losses.  You can also just plain lose sometimes, and that's just how it goes.  The CB is quick and easy and people can hide behind the pile of dead Hagen's as I keep bringing in new characters to replace the old one if needed <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=":)" />EDIT: Does anyone have a link to that mounted warlock idea?  Sounds great</blockquote>

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