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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5632499" data-attributes="member: 35909">I plan out my character's build in painstaking detail before a game starts.&nbsp; Seldom do I 100% stick to the plan.&nbsp; Things might not work as I thought they would, the way the DM runs things might suddenly make other options more appealing than what I had planned on, and sometimes I even pick things up to go along with my character's personality.&nbsp; The most glaring example was probably the game where my typical power/knowledge seeking arcanist met a cute Druid NPC with a scathing wit to match his own, and he ended up gaining a crapload of Knowldge (nature), getting an animal companion, and becoming the defacto &quot;defender of nature&quot; of the party.&nbsp; He sincerely developed an interest in nature, but I'd be lying if I said he didn't head in that direction because he wanted to have more in common with the NPC. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I never go completely off the rails of &quot;the plan,&quot; either.&nbsp; Stuff gets rearranged in importance, some things get dropped, but overall the original build serves a useful purpose for deciding the character's advancement, even if i don't follow it to exacting detail.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 5632499, member: 35909"] I plan out my character's build in painstaking detail before a game starts. Seldom do I 100% stick to the plan. Things might not work as I thought they would, the way the DM runs things might suddenly make other options more appealing than what I had planned on, and sometimes I even pick things up to go along with my character's personality. The most glaring example was probably the game where my typical power/knowledge seeking arcanist met a cute Druid NPC with a scathing wit to match his own, and he ended up gaining a crapload of Knowldge (nature), getting an animal companion, and becoming the defacto "defender of nature" of the party. He sincerely developed an interest in nature, but I'd be lying if I said he didn't head in that direction because he wanted to have more in common with the NPC. :) I never go completely off the rails of "the plan," either. Stuff gets rearranged in importance, some things get dropped, but overall the original build serves a useful purpose for deciding the character's advancement, even if i don't follow it to exacting detail. [/QUOTE]

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