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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad Mac" data-source="post: 3068275" data-attributes="member: 27873">Hmmm...pitiful character stories? Nothing recent, but back in my 2nd Edition days, I had a character I named Theoden. I had big plans for him. He was a pugilist kit Human Fighter using the Skills and Powers martial arts rules. Eventually he was going to dual-class into wizard. He was going to be the greatest character ev-er.  Sadly, fate had other plans. I should have known from the start, when a simple street brawl that served as his introduction (Giving him a chance to show his stuff) had him quickly sidelined while the other pcs that didn't know their fist from their rump cleaned house. But this was a small embaressment for what was to come.  Poor Theodin was destined to suffer a horribly crippling critical hit in the opening rounds of every important fight. Every....Single...One. He quickly became known as Theoden the Unlucky, seeing as how he spent every battle sucking mud and bleeding nearly to death. Oh yes, and we were using the optional crit system from the Skills and Powers books, so he wasn't just down for the fight...he didn't lose limbs or anything, but he was typically forced to spend a week or so of downtime resting his poor, broken body, only to get into another fight and snap his colorbone for the 5th time in 2 months.</blockquote>