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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5352422" data-attributes="member: 18701">Most of my favorite character moments are not combat related. Mostly because I find the roleplaying part of D&D more interesting and exciting, and also because as a player, my dice rolls suck. I'm pretty good strategically, but the execution is where I have problems. My dice always fail me. So even though I have tried to do some cool combat heroics, the ending of the stories will never be all that cool (unless you're the DM).I've always remembered the time my human Fighter/Thief (2e Dark Sun) was being hunted by a clan of elves in some dry brush. I was way outnumbered, so I tried to sneak away by stabbing a dagger in the ground and leaning my mirror on it so the sun would reflect (hoping the elves would investigate it and give me time as I escaped). But I guess it didn't help since they ignored it and continued searching for me away from the mirror. They quickly found me, captured me (no big surprise there), stripped me naked (dammit, I had already lost all of my gear twice before), and took me to a nearby forest where the cannibal halflings live.They left me tied up there to be eaten by the halflings and soon I was being hauled off to a halfling village by some scouts. They lifted me above a fire they were building and the only thing I could think of left to do was to promise them a bigger meal for dinner than just me, and it would be elves they would be feasting on (Dark Sun halflings and elves hate each other). They untied me, I took them back to where the elves captured me & found my mirror still on the ground (elves must have taken the dagger). Then we tracked the elves back to their own camp. I still had no weapons, so hoping the savage halflings have never seen a mirror, I offered to trade them my mirror for whatever weapon they could give me. They liked it and gave me a bone dagger. Then to show my support (and my hatred for elves), I helped them attack the elven tribe and we won the battle (nothing spectacular, the halflings did most of the work). The halflings wanted me to join their celebration, so I obliged. And of course they served elven meat as the main entree. I couldn't be rude seeing as how they decided not to eat me, so that was the first time my character ever tasted elf. And to be honest, he hated elves enough that he actually enjoyed the thought of eating them.</blockquote>

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