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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Selvarin" data-source="post: 7762265" data-attributes="member: 6102">If one wants to bump him up, one could make him a Barbarian 2/Rogue 2/Fighter 8 (Champion). Perhaps give him Keen Mind or Linguist feats. That would make him closer to his 'prime'. I try to avoid adding too many levels and additional classes, it's too easy to stat-out to level 20 by looking at everything remarked upon.With regard to his knowledge of languages, in D&D it's been dumbed down quite a bit. The mechanics for knowing a 'smattering' of words and basic communications skills aren't there. You either know a language or you don't, whereas in the real world we can well know enough to read or speak basic sentences and still not 'know' a language. (As an example, I've studied Italian and Spanish on and off over the years and remember enough to be able to 'read' some portions of a news article in either language, but no one including myself can say I truly know Italian or Spanish.) In the end what we write up are only approximations, as the writer never thought in D&D terms--it came afterward. Even material written after D&D has to be taken a certain way--Bruenor Battlehammer, for example, called upon his god to create Wulfgar's mighty hammer, but I wouldn't call him a cleric nor would RAS see him like that. Just as Liriel Baenre was never a Hathran even though she was able to participate in/utilize Rashemi magic ritual, however brief. A book is a book, a game is a game. Some things won't translate well.</blockquote>

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