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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GM Lent" data-source="post: 8279314" data-attributes="member: 6798775">My first really memorable D&D character was a thri-kreen psionicist/ranger in a Dark Sun campaign ca. 1994. The character's name was an unpronounceable string of letters with apostrophes, because that seemed to make sense based on what I read of the species in the books, and he was very fond of elf flesh - luckily, there were no elves in the party, though I used to pretend there once had been but my character ate them while feeling peckish. The party DID include a half-elf, and I sued to reassure him that I wasn't interested in eating him because only half of him would be good and it wouldn't be worth the bother.That character was nicknamed "the Cuisinart" because he just minced the enemies we ran into (as a player, there are few things more satisfying than "did you hit?" "yes" "ok, it's dead; don't bother to roll cause your minimum damage is more than their hit points"), but my favorite way to open any combat was the pick up the halfling fighter and throw him at the enemy. I don't recall that tactic ever working out well, but it was a blast to try every time.If I was to try and recreate the character now I'd just weep quietly, because mutliclassing in 5e (really, in the entire WotC era of D&D) sucks and thri-kreen don't even look like thri-kreen anymore anyway and every version of psionics since 2e has also sucked.Maybe I'm just old.</blockquote>