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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilgenius8000" data-source="post: 4549760" data-attributes="member: 63804">Well, lets see...I have two characters right now. One of them - the one I'm playing currently in LFR - is a genasi swordmage named Zan-Bal. He's Arabian themed, with the whole loose pants, sandals, and vest schtick going on, and usually refers to himself in the 3rd person. I came up after combining a few basic ideas: 1) I've always wanted to play a magic-using sword-wielder in D&D, but 3rd ed made it somewhat difficult. Thus, swordmage was an obvious choice, especially considering the setting is Forgotten Realms; 2) Him being a genasi was mainly a matter of it being a decent race, but it lead to his theme after I read some about their 4th Ed incarnation; 3) I read in one of the 4E FR books that many genasi could be found in Calimshan, a place I've been fond of ever since I read about it in the Drizz't novels. Thus, it was almost a no-brainer that my character would be from there. Thus, the Arabian theme.My second character is a little different. He's a mysterious Githzerai, who apparently is named Nostradamus Jones (though it is hard to tell if he was referring to himself when he said that name), who just recently appeared in a 3.5 campaign after my old character (a halfling bard potion salesman named Gillie Goldenfoot) died in the process of looting a fallen enemy's corpse. My idea for this Githzerai is based on the Planescape Xaositect faction, which I found out about in Planescape: Torment... Thus, he's completely crazy (which I've emulated through Flaws) but its hard to tell if he's just insane or if there's a method to his madness. He claims to be from the future (or that he can see the future) but in truth he most likely fled/was forced to leave Limbo for some reason. He's currently a Enlightened Chaos Monk (Mind Blade fighting style) 2 / Battle Dancer 1 (a mixture of Dreamscarred Press's psionic Enlightened Monk and the Chaos Monk variant from Dragon Mag plus the Battle Dancer from Dragon Compendium I)Otherwise... I'm a DM. However, my group doesn't always have a full party (and I'm not big on deviating from the normal rules) so I often have a DMPC travel along (though he/she usually ends up dying a horrible death). I'm not running a campaign yet, but I have a 4th Ed one in development. I'll spare the details of the setting for a different thread, but the character I'm thinking about running is a famous musician in the setting's only city. He's a drow troubador (using the class from the APG but with features from the Bard preview in a Ampersand DDI article) whose stage name is The Darkness... He's basically modeled after the self-important, ignorant rock musicians of our world. You know, with names like Sting or The Edge. He has the Alchemist feat, which he mainly uses for remedies after a hard night of partying. So, yeah... the characters I usually play are rather odd. But I prefer that to a typical fantasy archetype.</blockquote>

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