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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 4428241" data-attributes="member: 380">You never know what'll lead to a character's personality.  One of my favorite characters was a diviner who was a professor at Morgrave university at sharn who had one of his arms blown off by a trap on an expidition to xendrick.  I had envisioned someone coolheaded and goodhumoured who had come to terms with his limitations.  First game comes up, the PC's are just beginning to get together as a group and first time meeting the druid (who was a sailor) is greeted with "Hey! Stumpy."  That character never became the happy fellow I thought of orginally but rather continously irritated and snippy (especially when he had to ask for help) and locked in a constant back and forth with said uncouth druid and probably one of the characters I've enjoyed playing the most over the years.   But my absolute favorite was in 2nd ed.  I had only been playing rpg's for a year and thought it was really weird because logically with levels why would the most archtypal mage of fantasy be 1st level, that is the old white bearded wizard.  My solution was he had been a brilliant archmage who through years of work to save to world found out he had been duped and in fact ended up doing something really terrible.  As punishment the mage council had him level drained back to nothing (friends on the council kept him from being outright killed) but the trama was so great it snapped his mind.  He winds up a drunk in a bar and wind up starting his adventuring career again years later when a stranger presses a spellbook into his hand and tells him he'll need it.  Of course he's half off his rocker at this point has amnesia and doesn't remember very much of anything was very spacey and tended to trail off in the middle of sentances.  Of course he wasn't as far gone as he let on and would often use his "senility" to get his way and was a bit of a con man.  It was all very cliche but tons of fun and played complete with oldman voice (think like master roshi).  I'd kind of like to play him again.  Of course I don't feel as though I've done either of these characters justice I could probably write quite abit about the mental landscape of either of them but I feel like one of those obnoxious people that ramble on about their past characters, but it's been nostalgic.  I hadn't thought about Finius the Chastised for a long time.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[Lest I be totally self-absorbed I'll mention a moment that has alwasy stuck out in my mind from another player as sort of proof that even the merciless killing machine can have a bit of character when done with some flair.  Party decides we can't take the goblins with us we've captured and they know to much to they'll have to be put to the sword, that cold hearted warrior immediately grabs up their spears walks over to them and she cuts their bonds.  Throwing their weapons on the ground she demands they pick them up.  Once they do she declares, "It's better to die with your weapon in your hand," and snicker snack two dead goblins.  It was a little awe-inspiring.]</blockquote>

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