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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nac_Mac_Feegle" data-source="post: 2787602" data-attributes="member: 32300">Gizmo, you have made a lot of assumptions todayFirstly that the OP is a whienr and power gamerThat I am in a roundabout way calling you a thespian hippyand then claiming I wouldnt enjoy playing a character like conan, on some basis that im obviously a power gamer of some suchWell lets get down to some factsYour role playing of your character will get you nowehere if your character sheet cant back you up, its why it existsYou want to play a fighter wiht 8 strength, 10 con, 12 dexterity? go ahead, but you wont be role playing a strong fighter, and that was the point of my post, I wouldnt play a Conan style barbarian, almost legendary for his physical prowess wiht 8 str and con, I coulnt back up the story side of my characterI cant attempt to slay all the foes aorund me in a heroic swing of my blade if I dont have whirlwind attackIndeed characters in game dont adventure to level up, but if your character concept doesnt go beyond 1st level, you wont need ot adventure at all, infact you could tell the GM not to give you any xp, and just play level 1 characters all the time. However if I have a vison of a mighty warrior on horse back, who is brave and just, and is willing to ride headfirst into the enemy cavalry, I better make sure I have some platemail on (game mechanic) a warhorse (game mechanic) a sword (game mechanic) the ride skill (game mechanic) and mounted combat (game mechanic) if I hope to pull it offThe role play aspect and the mechanics of the game go hand in hand, and playing a character who is completely unprepared for a campaign can be fun, if you know you face this, and therefore half the fun in the role play is the adaptation of your character to meet the challenges. If thats what you want to play, some poeple will find it hard ot do that, not everyone is that good at adaption, and so, to make thier character, or even the whole party, fishes out of water isnt necessarily going to be fun.Of course conan met adversity, hes an adventurer, if we didnt want adversity, we would stay in the towns waiting for the next orc raid, and die screaming on the end of the swords. But theres a difference between adversity and completely nullifying your entire character and concept from the campaignSo can we please stop assuming things I havent said, or attempting to tell me what I would and would not like role-playing wise, as you dont actually know me, or the many characters and game systesm I have played over the last 22 yearsFeegle Out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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