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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 1948283" data-attributes="member: 8951">First, Kai Lord, you are AWESOME!  What a cool idea to have a contest like this!Second, I'm *such* a big Wayne Reynolds fan.  I couldn't believe it when I actually got the chance to shake his hand at GenCon last year.  I was the very model of a pathetic, geeked-out, drooling fanboy.  (But if you can't be a fanboy at GenCon, where can you?)Third, when this contest first started, I thought to myself, "I really love my character, but he really hasn't achieved that signature moment that the rest of the players will be talking about for years to come."  Then, just before New Years, it finally happened!  Thus, the following entry...The character's name is Hazmi, the Mighty, a.k.a. Hazmi, the Dragon.  He is a tribesman from the Elos desert in the Kalamar setting.  (I wish it was Dragonlance, but it isn't.)  For most of his career, he and his companions have been fighting the minions of Shedra, a female lich bent on world domination.  She and her undead armies have already ravaged the Empire of Kalamar and its armies.  Hazmi's party of characters was primarily responsible for stopping the undead army by bringing an artifact of undead-slaying to the Kalamaran army's last stand.  In gratitude, the Empress of Kalamar granted Hazmi the title of King of Basir, a vassal nation that had been ravaged by the undead and whose royal family had been slain.That's the background.  A couple days before New Years, I was playing this character for the last time.  We had started the campaign as first level characters.  After 2 years, we were all around 17th level, and our DM was ready to start something new.  So this was to be our final battle.  We were finally going after our longtime nemesis - Shedra herself!So here is Hazmi's moment.  The party was facing Shedra's second-in-command, a powerful vampire whose task was to guard Shedra's phylactery.  Hazmi's party was pinned down by the vampire's thralls.  Negative levels were being dealt out left and right.  Hazmi knew that he needed to end the fight quickly, or all would be lost.  So he flew up above the battle (with his winged boots).  He dropped his signature weapon, his +3 scimitar.  He also dropped his signature shield, a +2 large steel shield with the emblem of a red dragon on it.  He pulled out a weapon that he had recently taken from an ancient mummy his party had defeated in a previous encounter: a +1 vorpal greatsword.  With this weapon firmly clutched in both hands, Hazmi initiated his barbarian rage and flew directly at the lead vampire (praying for a critical hit).  Low and behold, he got it!  The lead vampire's head tumbled to the floor with one clean stroke!  It was dead!  The vampire's thralls became confused, giving the rest of Hazmi's party an opportunity to take the upper-hand.  The party was victorious, thanks to Hazmi's heroic action!That was definitely my character's most thrilling moment.  Watching the number I needed to crit the vampire come up on the die was the cause of much rejoicing around the gaming table (to put it mildly).   <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=":)" /> If Wayne picks my character, here's a bit more description of him.  Hazmi is a very large and muscular man (6 foot 4 inches, 235 pounds) with black hair, dark eyes, and a full (but well-manicured) black beard.  He is now a king in civilized lands, so he doesn't quite look the part of a desert barbarian any more.  But some aspects of that past are certainly still evident in his overall appearance.  Although I haven't kept careful track of time, I assume that he's approximately 25 years old.  He has a prominent scar running down his left cheek.  Hazmi killed the vampire while it was sitting on its throne on a dais.  In a corner of the room, Hazmi's 7 companions were surrounded by 12 vampire thralls.  After beheading the lead vampire, Hazmi used the great sword to impale its body on the throne (a pointless but cinematic gesture).As I described earlier, normally Hazmi carries a magical scimitar and a large steel shield with the emblem of a red dragon.  But in the scene I described, he had been forced to drop these old friends and risk attacking with a lower AC and an unfamiliar weapon (a great sword).  He wears +5 studded leather of the deep, winged boots, gloves of Dex +6, and a belt of giant strength +4, a ring on each hand (evasion and protection), and a cloak of resistance +4.  He also has 3 ioun stones above his head: one is a pink rhomboid (+2 Con), one is a pink and green sphere (+2 Cha), and one is a pale green prism (+1 to all saves, skills, and attack rolls).  At his side (as a back-up weapon), he wears a fabulous dagger whose hilt is encrusted with green jewels and whose scabbard carries a design resembling a green dragon.  Being an adventurer, he also carries lots of other mundane items on his back.  (But I'll leave these to Wayne's imagination.)I'm so stoked about this contest!  Even if I don't win, it has been fun reminiscing about my retired character's glory moment.  BTW, I would *gladly* pay Wayne $180 for an oil painting of this character.  Please, please, please pick me!    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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