Interesting Cleric

[white_ræbbit]

Hi Guys! Starting with my first Pathfinder campaign as the GM, I just wanted to share this female cleric character that was created last night...

She's a female gnome cleric, named Tulen Lightfoot, NG alignment. But with a twist, as she has the Coprolalia Tourettes syndrome. I think this will be a very interesting character to play by the player and to be used by me as the GM.

Seen as somewhat of an outcast by her Cleric peers, these outbursts of random profane words has driven her to take up the life of an adventurer mainly to solve the mystery behind this occurrence and possibly find a cure. She became a cleric with the hope that it would be cured, but this was obviously not the case.

Any creative ideas how I can use this for an adventure? I'm thinking along the lines of some or other demon that has cursed her at birth for some reason....

 

[Friend of the Dork]

Hehe, I kinda like the concept. It's like "blasted ())&/¤%¤&/) - oh no there goes my third level spells again"

 

[paradox42]

Any deity that would take away spells just for having that sort of problem is unworthy of worship.

That said, a demon seems a likely choice for the source of the problem, yes. Since she's NG herself, that opens up another possibility, if the deity is actually CG- the CG deity might have given her the "curse" as a blessing to try and shake up the church and make them loosen up. This brings up a third possibility, which is that her problem is actually the bgeinning stages of an Oracle's Curse, specifically the curse of Tongues- she might be destined for something like a Divine version of the old 3.5 Ultimate Magus prestige class from Complete Mage. Of course, you'll have to work that out with the player if this interests you.

Another way to use it for adventures is to ignore the "source and reason" angle completely, and just arrange circumstances in game such that she has an outburst at precisely the right (or wrong) time to attract attention from somebody powerful. Could be pretty unfortunate if she badmouths a king, for example: "What?!? How dare you! ...Well, I suppose I could overlook it if you go fetch for me the Mystic MacFoozle that is said to be in the dungeon underneath Swamp Castle." Or, maybe she insults a thief guildmaster, who happens to like that sort of thing, and ends up pursuing her as his True Love (works if she returns the affection, but probably works even better if his affections are unwanted since he then becomes comic relief or a stalker depending on how you want to play it).

There are all kinds of things you can do with a condition like that. Kudos to the player for thinking it up!

 

[Friend of the Dork]

Erhh most deities in D&D are not worthy of worship really... plenty of paladins have fallen for acts which they were not truly responsible for.

but in any case I was not being wholly serious.

Not sure why it would have to be curse and not an actual mental disability as it is in RL. And yeah, it could lead to lot of hilarious situations.

 

[HalfordAskold]

Could be interesting that's for sure!