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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Billiarmus" data-source="post: 290381" data-attributes="member: 6347">Now, I am personally a powergamer.  I hope you all don't hold that against me too much <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=":)" />  But sometimes, I think everyone finds a character that is truly their favorite, or at least a few characters that are truly memorable.  Now, for those of you that've been playing for decades, these characters may be older concepts that newer players, like myself, have never even heard of.  But that's why i've started this thread.As much of a powergamer as I am, I rarely make a character that could be stronger statistically, or at least within the limits of *some* reason.  I max out all usefull attributes, minimize lesser ones and drop the character into a game, backstory or no backstory.  But once, just once, as I recall, I had a really great character.  His name was, of all things, Billiarmus.  He was a drow wizard-rogue.  He absolutely sucked.  He couldn't cast high level-spells to keep up with the rest of the party.  His skills lacked because of his wizard levels.  He occasionally got off a color spray, and it was a joyous occasion when he did.  "Wow.  Billiarmus did something," was the response I got, even if I only dealt damage.  But as I played the character, I played off his weaknesses more and more, and really did enjoy seeing him do something useful, simply because he rarely could.  In the end, in a still-remembered plot development from the best DM in our group truly made Billiarmus my favorite character.We were captured in an anti-magic chamber, Billiarmus unable to use even his feeble dweomers.  Locked in, stripped of equipment.  We were in deep *insert favorite explitive*.Then, a super-fighter, with some freakish artifact sword, walked in and proceeded to beat the crap out of our party, hurling our cleric against the wall and breaking every bone in his body.  Then, he teleported Billiarmus to an isolation cell for insulting him.  Then, he gave us a choice.  Aid his organization's evil conquest of the realms (FR setting, albeit slightly changed history), or die.  As the party one by one pledged their alliegence to his group to save their lives, each party member made difficult decisions as they rationalized this change in alignment.  Finally, the fighter brought Billiarmus back, and he asked again, "So, do you join, Billiarmus?"  I then asked my DM what the Faerunian equivalent of flicking someone off was.  As you can imagine, Billiarmus died, run through with a sword in his chest.  And that was the end of my favorite character.I hope you enjoyed this story, not boring you too much, and I'd love to hear all the great stories i'm sure everyone has about their favorite characters.  So start posting those characters and their stories, especially the stories that defined what made them your favorite characters!</blockquote>

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