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<blockquote data-quote="Merlin the Tuna" data-source="post: 4303047" data-attributes="member: 55638">Is it wrong that I'm laughing to myself at some of these character concepts? So many of these descriptions amount more or less to &quot;I am the coolest guy in the universe.&nbsp; No seriously, I am totally unstoppable.&nbsp; I am captured by no man, I leave no trace, and all who see me quiver in fear.&nbsp; In fact, most people can't see me even if they want to, but they quiver in fear anyway.&nbsp; I am so unspeakably awesome, I don't just have a trenchcoat and a katana; I have a trenchcoat made of katanas.&quot;&nbsp; This is doubly amusing knowing that, if these characters were played in 3.5, they likely spent their fair share of a campaign being utterly embarrassed on more than a few occasions, and a couple likely weren't very good even at their chosen specialty.n I mean, I loved a lot of my 3.5 characters, but I'm not about to neglect that my Rogue's ability to be a deadly, sneaky assassin was impeded by the fact that a gentle breeze tended to render him unconscious, that his stalwart Fighter teammate was incapacitated by Will saves all the bloody time, that my clever and learned Sorcerer/Fiend-Blooded was shredded by insignificant monsters, that my grizzled Barbarian/Dragon Shaman will be known for hitting on about 2 attack rolls throughout his short career, and so on and so forth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merlin the Tuna, post: 4303047, member: 55638"] Is it wrong that I'm laughing to myself at some of these character concepts? So many of these descriptions amount more or less to "I am the coolest guy in the universe. No seriously, I am totally unstoppable. I am captured by no man, I leave no trace, and all who see me quiver in fear. In fact, most people can't see me even if they want to, but they quiver in fear anyway. I am so unspeakably awesome, I don't just have a trenchcoat and a katana; I have a trenchcoat [i]made of[/i] katanas." This is doubly amusing knowing that, if these characters were played in 3.5, they likely spent their fair share of a campaign being utterly embarrassed on more than a few occasions, and a couple likely weren't very good even at their chosen specialty.n I mean, I loved a lot of my 3.5 characters, but I'm not about to neglect that my Rogue's ability to be a deadly, sneaky assassin was impeded by the fact that a gentle breeze tended to render him unconscious, that his stalwart Fighter teammate was incapacitated by Will saves all the bloody time, that my clever and learned Sorcerer/Fiend-Blooded was shredded by insignificant monsters, that my grizzled Barbarian/Dragon Shaman will be known for hitting on about 2 attack rolls throughout his short career, and so on and so forth. [/QUOTE]

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