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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7351993" data-attributes="member: 82106">He picked it up because Fate decreed that it was time for The Living Weapon to return to the stories of men! Buried in the heart of that farmer (or maybe his son, that would be dramatically cool) is the spirit of a hero! Roll up your new character. <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=":)" />My spin on him is he's a young guy, not married yet, his father was killed by the Evil Duke's men. He hankers for justice, but he's not really a REVENGE! type of guy, though he will certainly channel his anger and indignation at his personal brush with injustice to inspire him to get the job done. Presumably he's a fighter, but you could imagine him turning out to be a Paladin (he goes to the local temple to pray and his uncle the priest tells him of the secret, when he was blessed there as a newborn a voice spoke out from the altar declaring that he would return some day to take up his holy duty). I'm sure you could spin a ranger, or a warlord out of this easily enough too. Obviously a little change of backstory could get you a barbarian as well, or a Warden perhaps. In any case, my spin on the living weapon is that the wielder supplies the particulars of the personality of the relationship. The weapon has its goals and the end result is sort of a fusion of the two. I'd mechanically represent it almost like a revenant, with the primary race overlaid with the special functions of the weapon. 4e should handle this really well.</blockquote>

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