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How do you RP a Wis: 74 and Cha: 60?
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So the character is a godless athiest that has suddenly gained stats that rival or, probably, surpass the gods themselves?
Here's how I would play it out. He casts his epic spells, gaining an instant, unfathomably high boost in his perception of the universe. Play out the Transcendent nature of the change (go for the 2001-esque "Oh my god, it's full of stars!" kind of feeling of awe and wonder). Mere moments after attaining what is essentially godhood, the character will percieve all the secrets of the multiverse. This will reveal several very relevant things to him:
First, he is now a threat to the gods in a way he never was before. And he has the Charisma to lure away huge chunks of their follower-base.
Second, he realizes the gods are inevitably going to come gunning for him. All of them. With a serious attitude.
Third, while his intellect is titanic, there's no way he can make himself powerful enough to survive that inevitable confrontation with the gods.
Realizing all this in the first moment after attaining his transcendant state, he makes a change to his own mind, so that he retains all his vast, cosmic insight, but can't access it on a conscious level. He might not know why he's doing certain things, or why people are reacting so well to him, but it still happens. No longer an immediate threat to the gods, he can survive long enough to do what he needs to do, with only a fading memory of why it is so.
In other words, since the character built and cast the epic level spell, and the DM approved it, he should still get the benefits. But you can't roleplay that kind of mental state...without achieving Nirvana yourself. At which point, you've got better things to do than play D&D.
Or maybe you don't. Who can say?
Here's how I would play it out. He casts his epic spells, gaining an instant, unfathomably high boost in his perception of the universe. Play out the Transcendent nature of the change (go for the 2001-esque "Oh my god, it's full of stars!" kind of feeling of awe and wonder). Mere moments after attaining what is essentially godhood, the character will percieve all the secrets of the multiverse. This will reveal several very relevant things to him:
First, he is now a threat to the gods in a way he never was before. And he has the Charisma to lure away huge chunks of their follower-base.
Second, he realizes the gods are inevitably going to come gunning for him. All of them. With a serious attitude.
Third, while his intellect is titanic, there's no way he can make himself powerful enough to survive that inevitable confrontation with the gods.
Realizing all this in the first moment after attaining his transcendant state, he makes a change to his own mind, so that he retains all his vast, cosmic insight, but can't access it on a conscious level. He might not know why he's doing certain things, or why people are reacting so well to him, but it still happens. No longer an immediate threat to the gods, he can survive long enough to do what he needs to do, with only a fading memory of why it is so.
In other words, since the character built and cast the epic level spell, and the DM approved it, he should still get the benefits. But you can't roleplay that kind of mental state...without achieving Nirvana yourself. At which point, you've got better things to do than play D&D.
Or maybe you don't. Who can say?
Blue_Genie
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For inspiration I would also suggest looking at the Runelords series by David Farland, which deals with people with incredibly high stats (in D&D terms.)
Blue
Blue
Those scores are high enough taht I, too, think they are beyond human portrayal. This character's concept of the universe probably leaves his mind in a state alien to the rest of us. Consider how well an infant understands an adult. Same thing. While this character is charismatic, and will be loved, listened to, and cherished, he won't be comprehensible.
More interesting, I think, will be role-playing him (if he survives) when the power goes away. Used to have better than godlike comprehension. Now is reduced to miniscule humanity. That's gonna be a real downer. Consider suicide for this character as an option.
More interesting, I think, will be role-playing him (if he survives) when the power goes away. Used to have better than godlike comprehension. Now is reduced to miniscule humanity. That's gonna be a real downer. Consider suicide for this character as an option.
Chroma
Explorer
Orius said:
With that high of a Wis, might he not realize the gods are actually important? It could be made as an epihphany type thing. Either realizing the cosmic balance and playing it cool. Or deciding one way is actually better and devoting himself to bringing about monotheism. Lots of ways to go!
Kahuna Burger
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Ascend, go home, make another character....
At a certain point in a story, it is possible for a character to become something so much more than human that it has cosmic implications. At this point that character leaves the story, until such a time as he or she has regained humanity or makes occasional cryptic apearances talking about mysterious but unbreakable rules that prevent direct interference. it is done this way both to allow the story to continue with some point, and because a cosmicly wise and charismatic guy doing and caring about whatever he did before gets silly.
This is just my opinion, but the only way I would consider roleplaying a character that somehow achieved this is by deciding the best loving but slightly cryptic sentance to utter as they became suffused with a pure glow of white light which grew in intensity until all were focred to look away crying at its indescribable beauty then expanded away into infinity and invisibility.... That or catatonic shock... that would be fun too. Total perspective vortex and all that.
Sorry to be unhelpful, but this is why epic games don't interest me - seriously trying to play this character as an adventurer or anything close just seems bizarre. If you don't automaticly ascend realizing the pointlessness of all this mundane activity and becoming a hermit would be the next best thing.
Kahuna Burger
At a certain point in a story, it is possible for a character to become something so much more than human that it has cosmic implications. At this point that character leaves the story, until such a time as he or she has regained humanity or makes occasional cryptic apearances talking about mysterious but unbreakable rules that prevent direct interference. it is done this way both to allow the story to continue with some point, and because a cosmicly wise and charismatic guy doing and caring about whatever he did before gets silly.
This is just my opinion, but the only way I would consider roleplaying a character that somehow achieved this is by deciding the best loving but slightly cryptic sentance to utter as they became suffused with a pure glow of white light which grew in intensity until all were focred to look away crying at its indescribable beauty then expanded away into infinity and invisibility.... That or catatonic shock... that would be fun too. Total perspective vortex and all that.
Sorry to be unhelpful, but this is why epic games don't interest me - seriously trying to play this character as an adventurer or anything close just seems bizarre. If you don't automaticly ascend realizing the pointlessness of all this mundane activity and becoming a hermit would be the next best thing.
Kahuna Burger
Dingleberry
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Upon reading this thread, I was struck by one simple question: what does an anti-theist do when all the people and creatures he encounters immediately begin to worship him unequivocally?
As a variation on Kahuna's theme: with horror, you suddenly realize that the great outer god OA is nearing completion of his nefarious plans. None is aware of his plans -- not the gods, not his followers, not even the great cosmic over-god whos presence you sensed in the mystical letters D.M. Only a group of fledgeling adventurers has any hope of stopping him. Now you must put them, and your fellow PCs, and even the holy D.M. on the path to stopping this most inconceivable of plans.
. . . . . . . -- Eric
. . . . . . . -- Eric
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