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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kristivas" data-source="post: 3195938" data-attributes="member: 34179">I also find it annoying that people need to make odd and often debilitating race/class combos just to be 'interesting'.  Many times, I've played all sorts of characters that other people found to be not only interesting, but a fine addition to the party.In a Forgotten Realms/Ravenloft game:  A LE Human Rogue.  He was the brother of another of the characters (CG fighter).  The game started with the Lord the party worked for assigned to take my character to a prison for his crimes.  This prison was out of the city and out of the way, due to the dangerous nature of the criminals it kept.My character was inexplicably evil, and he and his brother never could see eye-to-eye on anything.. except they cared about each other.  He also had a grudging respect for the rest of the party because they'd all grown up together.  Still, he was a cold murderer.  When someone would steal from the party, he'd kill them.  When someone insulted him, he'd kill them.  If someone did something against his brother, he'd kill them even more.They ended up on a side-quest that lead them away from the prison and on to adventuring glory.  An evil character in a good party, you ask?  Surely a recipe for disaster and backstabbing.But, it turned out to be an AWESOME game.  At first, the group just tried to convert him.  When they ended up in Ravenloft, it turned into a "use evil to fight evil" thing.At first, when we started that game, the other players were aghast.  They'd seen me play evil characters before, and just assumed all of their characters would be murdered in their sleep with everything but their loin cloths stolen.  After we talked and I agreed that I wouldn't be doing any of that nonsense (unless someone else started it, of course), they warily agreed.  To this day, we still talk about that game and how awesome that character was.I'm sure some of you would disagree, and probably find that as annoying as I do a Half-Orc Bard or a Runner.  To each their own, I suppose.. but if everyone playing is having fun, then I would say that's success.. no matter what you roll up.</blockquote>

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