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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mulkhoran" data-source="post: 463061" data-attributes="member: 894">My pain can finally be told..............This is long, but it pays off in the end.Last year, I made up an elven barbarian character for a setting my friend was running.  It was sort of a frontier/Last of the Mohicans type thing, and the elves were sort of like the indians.So this character had a long and detailed background, which involved his father being exiled from the village due to the evil politics of the other men, and his mother being ostracized. He left this village to find his father, and returned after several years to find his mother and baby brothers gone, under extremely suspicious circumstances.  I had this line in there about how his best friend, who had offered to stay with them and protect them, couldn't look him in the eye after that.Essentially, this led to him slaughtering the entire village, and going out into the world.  The campaign opened with a combat, and I ended up fighting this orc shaman alongside the other characters, just having come upon the scene, looking for a fight.The orc shaman killed me in like 2 rounds after I rushed him. So the fight proceeds, and I make up another character.  They beat the shaman, and go to free the prisoners. I'm introduced as one of the prisoners they free.While this is happening, the party "priest" is praying over the bodies of the fallen. Unbeknownst to the rest of us, he's a priest of Cyric, and his goal is to attempt to send the spirits of the fallen off to Cyric. The DM was giving him a 10% chance (01-10) to do it.  Over the body of the barbarian, he rolls a 00, meaning some bizarre backlash effect occurs.It's about this time the DM asks me who I'm playing. I mention, that since I didn't want the long history I wrote up to "go to waste", that I'm playing the longtime friend of the dead barbarian, the only one to escape his slaughter of the village, and the one most likely responsible for his family's death.He goes into shock momentarily, and leaves for a bit with my barb's character sheet.  Just as I'm being introduced, my barbarian rises. As a revenant.The new character was a finesse fighter. He was eviscerated in the first round, before anyone could act. Well, not before the rogue could act, but once he saw the revenant was just going for ME, he jumped aside and let it maul me.2 in one night. That's my record so far.</blockquote>

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