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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 562412" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>I find my problems lying at the other end of the spectrum. I've gotten bored watching my players make all the safe, ordinary character choices, so when the opportunity comes for me to play, I haul out the most un-min-maxed character of all time, roleplay him to the hilt, and attempt to prove to the players not only that you can roleplay anything if you try hard enough, but that I can out-minmax them even with un-min-maxy characters.</p><p></p><p>They thought that my dwarven Brb3/Clr7 was underpowered right up until he used a large number of his daily spells and became a combat inferno. The fact that up until that time he'd been comic relief (a cleric of a Water God who is a) Not built for swimming and b) Five hundred miles from the nearest large body of water) was even better. One minute I'm using my wilderness lore skill to find crawdads (those four-legged, tree-dwelling crawdads with the furry tails. I think you call them "Squirrels"), and the next I've unloaded Bull's Strength, Endurance, Fly (Travel Domain), and am winging my way around the battlefield, dual-wielding a pair of Icy-Burst warhammers.</p><p></p><p>My dwarven Druid/Bard talked like Sean Connery. His badgers, Bloodfang and Mister Snuffles, were occasionally used as ranged weapons.</p><p></p><p>And Mirk Dilliwaddle, the half-orc raised by halflings, was fabulous comic relief, and the players thought he was pretty much useless until they got into a boxing match with him and discovered that a barbarian/rogue with Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Ambidexterity, Two-Weapon Fighting, and Extra Stunning can really be a bit formidable.</p><p></p><p>-Tacky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 562412, member: 5171"] I find my problems lying at the other end of the spectrum. I've gotten bored watching my players make all the safe, ordinary character choices, so when the opportunity comes for me to play, I haul out the most un-min-maxed character of all time, roleplay him to the hilt, and attempt to prove to the players not only that you can roleplay anything if you try hard enough, but that I can out-minmax them even with un-min-maxy characters. They thought that my dwarven Brb3/Clr7 was underpowered right up until he used a large number of his daily spells and became a combat inferno. The fact that up until that time he'd been comic relief (a cleric of a Water God who is a) Not built for swimming and b) Five hundred miles from the nearest large body of water) was even better. One minute I'm using my wilderness lore skill to find crawdads (those four-legged, tree-dwelling crawdads with the furry tails. I think you call them "Squirrels"), and the next I've unloaded Bull's Strength, Endurance, Fly (Travel Domain), and am winging my way around the battlefield, dual-wielding a pair of Icy-Burst warhammers. My dwarven Druid/Bard talked like Sean Connery. His badgers, Bloodfang and Mister Snuffles, were occasionally used as ranged weapons. And Mirk Dilliwaddle, the half-orc raised by halflings, was fabulous comic relief, and the players thought he was pretty much useless until they got into a boxing match with him and discovered that a barbarian/rogue with Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Ambidexterity, Two-Weapon Fighting, and Extra Stunning can really be a bit formidable. -Tacky [/QUOTE]
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