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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7042752" data-attributes="member: 996">My second 4e character, Varinhall Mith'morenial, was on the one hand, an Eladrin Wizard McFighter on track for WotST.  That'd be the mechanical choices hand.  OTOH, he was a call back to the old elven fighter/magic-user (I was careful to pick classic spells as both powers and rituals, and I lampshaded edition changes - "this is a spell from my grandfather's book, originally penned by some forgotten mage named 'Tenser,' according to his notes, he'd sometimes prepare it, but I've never been able to, though reading it straight from the book seems to work fine...").But, OTOOH, the relevant one, he was also the last in an an ancient lineage stretching back to before the elf/eladrin/drow split, and an 'inheritor of the mantle' a sleeping magical artifact, the Balefire Brand, a magic sword lit with the fire of creation.  It wasn't any such thing, of course, but, via Eladrin Sword Wizardry I did go ahead and use it to cast a lot of my spells, so when I cast light, I'd wake the sword fitfully and ghostly green flames would dance around it.  That kinda thing.  I was also draining magic items for residuum on the theory that all the magic in the world came from the original Balefires, and I was just collecting some of it to restore the sword.  I was also a Wand Wizard and said my Wand was a 'Wand of Fire,' thus the Scorching Bursts I was casting all the time.  In 4e, some of that may have been pushing things a bit, but re-skinning powers was kosher enough.  In 2e, I'd've needed 'Sense Shifting' and in 3.5 'spell thematics' to get away with most of it.So, yeah, I think items being minor parts of a character, or engineered central part of the concept, are both nice ideas.  BTW, there's a 5e UA version of the hexblade that's meant to be an Elric-like character with his power mostly coming from his terrible magic sword.</blockquote>

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