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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8759901" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Well, this one didn't happen in play, but during character creation...A lot of times I find myself radically changing the character's backstory when making a mechanical decision or taking some mechanical choice I otherwise wouldn't have considered because of what's happening/happened in their backstory.I wanted to make a character based on a Reaper miniature I had,<a href="https://images.reapermini.com/4/02541_G.jpg" target="_blank"> 02541 Darbin the Deadly</a>. Obviously, the figure is a Wizard. But I've always sort of felt he looked more like a druid than a wizard, so I decided to make him a human druid, very much in the traditional real-world mold. I named him Fionn mac Tadg (which is pronounced Finn McTeague). I'd thought going about variant human for the feat at first level, and maybe taking Magic Initiate. But I wasn't sure which class to choose for the feat.Then inspiration hit - I thought to myself, why not go all in on the whole traditional Irish thing... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> It's hard to tell from the pic, but up close in person he has a very spry and somewhat mischievous look to him for someone who's also an older gentleman - a very "Fey" look... And Irish mythology and folklore is full of people suddenly finding themselves on the other side of the divide between our world and that of the Sidhe, accidentally, willingly, or otherwise.I switched my Wisdom and Charisma scores around, gave him a custom background I called "Underhill*", and I went with Warlock for the Magic Initiate feat, with the intention of multiclassing into Feylock further down the road. So now he's a druid 2/warlock 1, with the intention of going mostly warlock for the rest of his levels. Narratively, he's primarily a "face" character, having served as a skilled diplomat and negotiator for a Fey Lord for decades, with an air of wisdom yet a very puckish sense of humor, and he definitely has the social skills/spells to back it up. His Wild Shape is mostly reserved for out-of-combat use, since he only turns into animals traditionally associated with the Irish Druids (horse, bird, fish, stag, etc.), but a druid/warlock multiclass also doesn't do too bad in combat even without Wild Shape - he's got both Eldritch Blast and Shillelagh, so he's covered for both ranged and melee...When I started out to make the character, I had no idea that it would turn out the way it did.* As a druid he'd been invited to party with some fey and woke up the next morning to find himself in the Feywild, a "guest" of some Fey Lord. Eventually, he worked his way up to becoming a trusted friend of the Lord and gets released from their service. But when he returns to this world, he finds that although he's only aged about thirty years in the Feywild, close to 100 years have passed out here...</blockquote>

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