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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7158059" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>When the first FR nixed set was released my DM decided to run a game there. This was 1987 or 1988. I sat down with the materials and olled some dice. They were kind and I ended up with the bet stats I had ever rolled, including an 18 Intelligence. However, I'd just played a wizard and was done with it. Setting aside the Ittelligence, he had good stats for a fighter. </p><p></p><p>The thought process I went through inspired me to look in the b [KS and come up with a PC that rejected wizardry. I loved at Thay and decided I'd make a Fighter from Thay, the son of a powerful Red Wizard that hated all things magic and evil. I immediately asked how such a PC could survive to adulthood in Thay ND realized he could not. So I made him the evil disfavored son of the Red Wizard who was denied magic for his arrogance and ease the father feared his intellect. The son feared his father and rarely had the guts to oppose him from the shadows (and never in the light). </p><p></p><p>One day he came across a shipment headed for his father and intercepted it. It proved to be a powerful magical warrior's helm. He stole the helmet and killed the messengers. When he done it, however, it turned out to be a Helm of Opposite Alignment. On the spot he became Lawful Good. He fled across the lands fearing that someone would someday remove his helm and return him to the monster he once was...</p><p></p><p>The DM managed to pull dozens of story lines out of the origin and the PC, now an NPC still plays a major role in that DM's world. He dual classed to wizard after a battle involving a beholder and a necklace of missiles resulted in a TPK (except for him) and eventually became a Lord of Waterdeep, enacting Law and Good via subversion and misdirection, the tools of his family. He is still my favorite PC, ever. He was promoted to NPC in 1993 and I have not played him officially since then, but a version of him exists in every game world I run as an NPC that sponsors heroes to go out and make the world better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 7158059, member: 2629"] When the first FR nixed set was released my DM decided to run a game there. This was 1987 or 1988. I sat down with the materials and olled some dice. They were kind and I ended up with the bet stats I had ever rolled, including an 18 Intelligence. However, I'd just played a wizard and was done with it. Setting aside the Ittelligence, he had good stats for a fighter. The thought process I went through inspired me to look in the b [KS and come up with a PC that rejected wizardry. I loved at Thay and decided I'd make a Fighter from Thay, the son of a powerful Red Wizard that hated all things magic and evil. I immediately asked how such a PC could survive to adulthood in Thay ND realized he could not. So I made him the evil disfavored son of the Red Wizard who was denied magic for his arrogance and ease the father feared his intellect. The son feared his father and rarely had the guts to oppose him from the shadows (and never in the light). One day he came across a shipment headed for his father and intercepted it. It proved to be a powerful magical warrior's helm. He stole the helmet and killed the messengers. When he done it, however, it turned out to be a Helm of Opposite Alignment. On the spot he became Lawful Good. He fled across the lands fearing that someone would someday remove his helm and return him to the monster he once was... The DM managed to pull dozens of story lines out of the origin and the PC, now an NPC still plays a major role in that DM's world. He dual classed to wizard after a battle involving a beholder and a necklace of missiles resulted in a TPK (except for him) and eventually became a Lord of Waterdeep, enacting Law and Good via subversion and misdirection, the tools of his family. He is still my favorite PC, ever. He was promoted to NPC in 1993 and I have not played him officially since then, but a version of him exists in every game world I run as an NPC that sponsors heroes to go out and make the world better. [/QUOTE]
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