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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7908048" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yet as both player and DM I love characters like these! Entertainment on the hoof! Fun for all! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And sometimes these characters last in spite of themselves.&nbsp; There's a wizard in my current game whose player rolled horrible starting stats (I think in 3e/5e terms his net total bonus might have been +0 or -1), the worst of which was a 6 that got stuck into Wisdom.&nbsp; And he's played that low Wisdom to the hilt over the years...and yes, I said &quot;over the years&quot; because despite everything he's now one of the longest-serving characters in the game!My own arguably-best-ever character was another such: a 3e wizard (illusionist) who started with Wisdom 7 and who I played for most of her career* as a bubbleheaded blonde with spells - kinda smart and dumb at the same time - and despite herself she lasted for ages!* - late in her career when she realized she'd become the highest-seniority member of the party, everyone older having died off or retired, she started acting like a mother hen looking after her brood... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7908048, member: 29398"] Yet as both player and DM I [B]love[/B] characters like these! Entertainment on the hoof! Fun for all! :) And sometimes these characters last in spite of themselves. There's a wizard in my current game whose player rolled horrible starting stats (I think in 3e/5e terms his net total bonus might have been +0 or -1), the worst of which was a 6 that got stuck into Wisdom. And he's played that low Wisdom to the hilt over the years...and yes, I said "over the years" because despite everything he's now one of the longest-serving characters in the game! My own arguably-best-ever character was another such: a 3e wizard (illusionist) who started with Wisdom 7 and who I played for most of her career* as a bubbleheaded blonde with spells - kinda smart and dumb at the same time - and despite herself she lasted for ages! * - late in her career when she realized she'd become the highest-seniority member of the party, everyone older having died off or retired, she started acting like a mother hen looking after her brood... :) [/QUOTE]

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