Help me decide on some PCs

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

A thought to help you avoid lots of conversation between yourself (yourselves?). Twins. Fraternal or identical twins who diverged radically in their career choices, but are in some ways of one mind. They don't need to talk to each other.

Furthermore, since with twins, you usually have a dominant and a submissive member, you could simplify things by making one of them the primary mouthpiece, with the other tending to hang back and look menacing. Probably the cleric would be socially dominant. With the fighter seemingly having dedicated his life to protecting his brother. Plays well into the Devoted Defender class.

And you could throw curves in if you really want to RP it. Often, the apparently dominant twin in public is actually submissive to the other twin when they're alone or among close friends/family.

 

[Dragongirl]

Canis, that makes me think of Caramon and Raistlin in the Dragonlance stories.

 

[Samnell]

I'm really liking that twins idea, Canis.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Having not read anything Dragonlance, I can't comment on Caramon and Raistlin. But twins of those sorts are pretty common both in literature and in psychology studies. Lots of nature vs. nurture debates and such. Lots of psychologists trying to cram twin behaviors into their personal "theory of mind."

It's fun to watch their wheel get spoked

I'm a bad man.

 

[Dragongirl]

And if you really want to roleplay you can have brother and sister. Have the sister dominant telling the meeker brother what to do. Oh wait, that is my life, cept my brother is a year younger. My bad!

 

[Dragongirl]

Having not read anything Dragonlance, I can't comment on Caramon and Raistlin.

:: gasp . . . sputter . . . faints ::

Raistlin was a neutral then evil wizard. He was very intelligent but never very robust in body. His brother Caramon was your typical brawny but not brainy warrior. Raistlin had to pass a test in order to advance in magic which left him even weaker in body than before. Caramon loved his brother and did everything he could do for his "frail" brother.

 

[Theuderic]

Actually Caramon was just as smart as Raistlin he just had a hard time making decisions and such because he would take too long looking at things from every angle.

 

[Dragongirl]

Actually Caramon was just as smart as Raistlin he just had a hard time making decisions and such because he would take too long looking at things from every angle.

Well . . . while I would not say Caramon was stupid, he was not terribly smart, certainly not above average and no where near Raistlin's intellect. Then again, that impression may just be because he was always in his brother's shadow so to speak. He did show remarkable (for him) wisdom when he went back in time.

Edit : By the way, as a possible roleplaying idea if Samnell goes with this sort of idea. Raistlin very much resented having to rely on his brother physically. So if you run with this and made your cleric sickly you could do something similar.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

:: gasp . . . sputter . . . faints ::

Didn't mean to shock you, Dragongirl. I'm just not very well read within the context of D&D licenses. If you strongly recommend them, I suppose I might take a look, but the book pile currently starts in the apartment below mine and tops off just below the high end of the steepled ceiling in my bedroom, so it might be a year or so before I could report back

Anyway, Samnell, while I was initially against the monk idea (sorry Dragongirl and boothbey ), combining Croathian's "the fighter can feel responsible for the cleric's getting captured" with a dedicated brother could result in something not unlike a Stoneheart Ascetic, from Wulf's book. Perhaps the guilt drives him to an ascetic (read: monkly) lifestyle temporarily as a penance, but the clarity of it ultimately brings him reconciliation with his brother and renewed vigor.

 

[Theuderic]

That much I'll give you but to say the man wasn't brainy just doesn't sound right. He was a profoundly deep thinker.