How did your Character Concept come about?

[Wednesday Boy]

The Six Million Dollar Warforged

From the first time I read about them I've never really been drawn to the Warforged. Ever since then I've been looking at them trying to figure out a slant that would appeal to me. The slant that I like is when the Warforged character isn't really a Warforged.

Although I haven't had the opportunity to play it yet, when a character of mine would die the only way their companions had to save them was to put their consciousness into this construct. So my new character would be my old character's mind in a Warforged body. I think it would be very interesting to see how the character would develop in their new body. Whether they would adapt as best they could in their new body to continue in the path (Class) they were familiar with or if they would change their direction for a Class that was more suitable to their new body's abilities. (Ex.: Would a former Wizard try to deal with the consequences of being in armor all of the time or would he shift focus to be a more melee oriented character?)

The idea came about after thinking about a Warforged Elemental Savant who was an elemental that was housed in and powered a construct body (and who eventually wanted to be freed of its construct prison). That concept was lifted from DC's Red Tornado, the android that is powered by an elemental. The idea that the Warforged race is really a shell with something different inside lead me to the Six Million Dollar Warforged character.

 

[Rel]

From the first time I read about them I've never really been drawn to the Warforged. Ever since then I've been looking at them trying to figure out a slant that would appeal to me. The slant that I like is when the Warforged character isn't really a Warforged.

Although I haven't had the opportunity to play it yet, when a character of mine would die the only way their companions had to save them was to put their consciousness into this construct. So my new character would be my old character's mind in a Warforged body. I think it would be very interesting to see how the character would develop in their new body. Whether they would adapt as best they could in their new body to continue in the path (Class) they were familiar with or if they would change their direction for a Class that was more suitable to their new body's abilities. (Ex.: Would a former Wizard try to deal with the consequences of being in armor all of the time or would he shift focus to be a more melee oriented character?)

The idea came about after thinking about a Warforged Elemental Savant who was an elemental that was housed in and powered a construct body (and who eventually wanted to be freed of its construct prison). That concept was lifted from DC's Red Tornado, the android that is powered by an elemental. The idea that the Warforged race is really a shell with something different inside lead me to the Six Million Dollar Warforged character.

That's a pretty cool idea.

My previous character in an Eberron campaign was a Warforged and his backstory was that he had none. He was built for the Last War but was never activated. I arranged with the GM to have him activated in the middle of Night 1 of the campaign. So he was a blank slate.

I had fun roleplaying him as the "weapon for a war that's already over", seeking his place in the world and trying to figure out "whose side he was on".

 

[Obryn]

I've only gotten to play 4e twice, and the DM for that game (also a player in my game) is moving away soon. So I think I will have only played twice until another one of my players starts up their own game.

Anyway, since I was familiar with the module they were using, I decided to make my character basically a hanger-on. I decided to make an Elf Cleric of Corellon... I noticed he was the God of Beauty and whatnot, so I tried to figure out what kind of hook I'd give him.

I made the character during a Project Runway marathon, so that was on my mind. And I decided that he was a religious fashion designer, questing to come up with practical and beautiful adventuring clothes. Since he's not an adventurer, himself, he was tagging along and helping out in order to get hints of what kinds of things adventurers do, and what kinds of practical touches he should add to his clothing.

It was a really fun character.

-O