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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Ranting" data-source="post: 2986194" data-attributes="member: 28906"><p><strong>As-yet-Unused concepts</strong></p><p></p><p>I mostly play Arcana Evolved or hybrid AE/D&D games nowadays, but I picked up PHB2, and it's given me an idea for at least one new character, an as-yet-unnamed <strong>Warforged Duskblade.</strong></p><p></p><p> While I'm not terribly familiar with Eberron, I like the idea that he was involved in a battle and disabled, lying face-down in a forest somewhere, dimly aware of the passage of time and his surroundings, but unable to move. After at least a year (time enough for all 4 seasons to pass), he was found by a group of Elves, who managed to re-activate him, and took him back to their settlement. Fascinated by the Elves, and by Nature, but limited by his low wisdom and charisma, the character would be somewhat more angsty than I'm used to playing, struggling with his artificial nature, and feeling that he is somehow inferior to living creatures. Seeing his inner turmoil with his own contradictory nature as a feeling machine, the Elves trained him as a Duskblade, hoping that by learning to reconcile the disparate elements of spellcraft and swordplay, he might reconcile his own nature. If nothing else, following the disciplined path necessary to master both sword and spell has given him something to do with his time, studying swordplay by day, and magic by night. As a result of his inferiority complex, he would treat non-warforged with respect and defer to the decisions of others, particularly Elves and Druids or Rangers, when inter-party decisions are to be made, even if the idea is a bad one. He would be uncomfortable around other Warforged, especially those who follow the Lord of Blades, who's ideals are in opposition to his own. </p><p> Mechanically, I like the idea of him having the Mithril Body feat, and taking the Expertise tree, to get the most out of his relatively high intelligence. Fascinated by the idea of Druidic magic, but unable to cast most of it because he was constructed with a mithril body, his favorite spell would be<em> Animalistic Power.</em></p><p></p><p>Robert "Think Bicentennial Man, Only Violent and Medieval" Ranting</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Ranting, post: 2986194, member: 28906"] [b]As-yet-Unused concepts[/b] I mostly play Arcana Evolved or hybrid AE/D&D games nowadays, but I picked up PHB2, and it's given me an idea for at least one new character, an as-yet-unnamed [B]Warforged Duskblade.[/B] While I'm not terribly familiar with Eberron, I like the idea that he was involved in a battle and disabled, lying face-down in a forest somewhere, dimly aware of the passage of time and his surroundings, but unable to move. After at least a year (time enough for all 4 seasons to pass), he was found by a group of Elves, who managed to re-activate him, and took him back to their settlement. Fascinated by the Elves, and by Nature, but limited by his low wisdom and charisma, the character would be somewhat more angsty than I'm used to playing, struggling with his artificial nature, and feeling that he is somehow inferior to living creatures. Seeing his inner turmoil with his own contradictory nature as a feeling machine, the Elves trained him as a Duskblade, hoping that by learning to reconcile the disparate elements of spellcraft and swordplay, he might reconcile his own nature. If nothing else, following the disciplined path necessary to master both sword and spell has given him something to do with his time, studying swordplay by day, and magic by night. As a result of his inferiority complex, he would treat non-warforged with respect and defer to the decisions of others, particularly Elves and Druids or Rangers, when inter-party decisions are to be made, even if the idea is a bad one. He would be uncomfortable around other Warforged, especially those who follow the Lord of Blades, who's ideals are in opposition to his own. Mechanically, I like the idea of him having the Mithril Body feat, and taking the Expertise tree, to get the most out of his relatively high intelligence. Fascinated by the idea of Druidic magic, but unable to cast most of it because he was constructed with a mithril body, his favorite spell would be[I] Animalistic Power.[/I] Robert "Think Bicentennial Man, Only Violent and Medieval" Ranting [/QUOTE]
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