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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 447744" data-attributes="member: 1874">I prefer unique characters, yes. Nothing beats playing something "completely different", lika a Modron in your typical Forgotten Realms campaign, or a Kender in... the same setting. While I don't really like playing monsters, like huge demonic creatures with 13 legs and an Int/Str of 50, I think characters should be at least a bit different from the norm. Heck, I can read about "common" characters in fantasy novels, or meet "common" people in the real world.Of course, I have to admit that it can be fun to play completely normal, stereotype fantasy characters (those you can buy 50 for a dime) now and then, but that rarely happens. Heck, the characters doesn't have to be that unique or weird, but there have to be *something* different about a character you cannot just apply by the rules (if so, it isn't that special or unique as the subject is already covered quite nicely by the books). As an example, my current "project" is immortal. However, for balance, he is otherwise pretty worthless. Think Marwin from the hitchhikers guide, he is quite disturbing/annoying, but in a "good" cozy way. I think this character will be a BLAST to roleplay, because that's pretty much the only thing you can do, role play him (as "not to roll play", because there's nothing to roll).... and so on. A unique character is, to me, a character with a perk or quirk that encourage roleplaying. A unique character is not a "cool demon hunter" with a "elite big mofo of a sword" that "kills demons and oh btw pretty much everything" "like a som-o-bitch", but rather a blind, crippled old diviner with a wheelchair, who is quite fond of nature as a whole and dislikes high tech tools as everything created from iron or (possible) stone.Anyhow, yes I'm aware of special characters from movies or books, that they "develop over time" and that a "truly" special character is a not so special character that does something special and becomes... yes exactly that, special. But then, I can read about those stories in fantasy novels, and it's pretty damn hard to game in a way this is possible. Trust me we (our gaming group) have tried many years now.But then, this is just my personal opinion... I like it different from the start, that way, you have lots of stuff to do at lower levels (and yes, It CAN be fun to game at low levels but then again our groups have tried for some years and I just cannot stand anything lower than say level 5 for a long period of time).This might have somthing to do with the fact that I really enjoy those small common things in real life. For two years now, I like and eat the same kind of chocolate bar as much as I did 10 years ago. I sleep to 3PM and operate my computer for 12-15 hours / day whereas I program, create things, hang out with friends in private IRC networks and moderate Swedens largest computer messageboad with 15000 members, 365 days / year, go to bed early in the morning. Two days a week I work some 4-6 hours/day at my grandfathers stable and every time I lift some 150 lbs there without problems I am as proud of myself, the geek who doesn't work out, as I were the week before. I earn some money which I use to I buy computer hardware and (sometimes) gaming material. Now repeat this over and over and over again. I love it. It's not unique or something, but I love it.Well, that's my story. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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