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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 1999604" data-attributes="member: 4134">&quot;Finsterer Streiter&quot; For a character who's so incompetent he cannot even die if he wants toOrigin. Finsterer Streiter is the awful German name for Blackguard, which I never liked - it just sounds as evil and imposing as Blackguard. It sounds more like the archnemesis of the tele-tubbies or something (and I always thought it fit well to the old Blackguard painting from 3.0 DMG). Now, in an all-evil campgaign, one character played a blackguard. And he was Incompetent - with a capital I. He should have been Lawful Incompetent or something. He tried to rob someone on the streets, and from 4 different possible targets (including an old lady) he chose the guy who promptly beat him up and left him lying there bleeding and without money (which he used to get a healing potion for the single hit he got). And that's just one example. It was not like the character was badly designed or had lousy ability scores. The stats were decent. It was just that the player had abysmal luck rolling dice when he played it.Of course, the player was growing to hate the character, and intended to let him die, but even that didn't work - the window he wanted to jump out of on a whim was too small and so on. Finally, the DM wanted to grant him his dying wish, and sent a Cosmic Bolt of Death down on him, telling him to roll reflex for half damage (which would &quot;only&quot; have been 500 points or so). Yeah, you guess it: he rolled a natural 20, which meant he survived it because he had evasion. He was finally just retired to make place for a Psychic Warrior.And at one point I said &quot;Usually I hate the term &quot;Finsterer Streiter&quot; as being a joke and use Blackguard, but I think this guy deserves it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 1999604, member: 4134"] "Finsterer Streiter" For a character who's so incompetent he cannot even die if he wants to Origin. Finsterer Streiter is the awful German name for Blackguard, which I never liked - it just sounds as evil and imposing as Blackguard. It sounds more like the archnemesis of the tele-tubbies or something (and I always thought it fit well to the old Blackguard painting from 3.0 DMG). Now, in an all-evil campgaign, one character played a blackguard. And he was Incompetent - with a capital I. He should have been Lawful Incompetent or something. He tried to rob someone on the streets, and from 4 different possible targets (including an old lady) he chose the guy who promptly beat him up and left him lying there bleeding and without money (which he used to get a healing potion for the single hit he got). And that's just one example. It was not like the character was badly designed or had lousy ability scores. The stats were decent. It was just that the player had abysmal luck rolling dice when he played it. Of course, the player was growing to hate the character, and intended to let him die, but even that didn't work - the window he wanted to jump out of on a whim was too small and so on. Finally, the DM wanted to grant him his dying wish, and sent a Cosmic Bolt of Death down on him, telling him to roll reflex for half damage (which would "only" have been 500 points or so). Yeah, you guess it: he rolled a natural 20, which meant he survived it because he had evasion. He was finally just retired to make place for a Psychic Warrior. And at one point I said "Usually I hate the term "Finsterer Streiter" as being a joke and use Blackguard, but I think this guy deserves it. [/QUOTE]

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