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<blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 2919378" data-attributes="member: 34175"><p><strong>Mr./Ms. Half & Half</strong> </p><p>I'm a half-celestial, half-dragon, half-elf, half-demon, half-drow, half-dwarf, half-giant, half-ogre, half-troll, [insert class here] Personally, I think they're half-BRAINED!!!! Running a home brew campaign with <strong>specific</strong> ideas of racial and monster interactions, and published house rules on what is allowable, it still amazes me when someone comes to the table with the latest mutant of the week. I might be willing to call this a sub-race of the <strong>Min/max</strong> or <strong>Power hungry gamer</strong> but, this is a special case; its all about the bloodlines (and the bloodline specific feats, of course).</p><p></p><p><strong>The Non-specific Specialist</strong> </p><p>Somewhat covered in Dragon a few months ago, this person has a level in nearly every base class and quite a few PRCs as well. At level 20 he/she still hasn't passed 2nd level in ANY class. </p><p></p><p><strong>But the Monster Manual says...</strong> </p><p>This player has the gaul to bring a DMs only book to the table and then begin to quote line and paragraph when I have made modifications to thwart such "guidebook" mentality. Unless your character sheet says skill "Steve Erwin, Marlon Perkins or Jim Fowler: 25 or higher" on it, don't even start. It would be different if players actually spent skill points on things like Knowledge (Dragons, Undead, Oozes, etc), but have you ever seen this? If so please send a copy of the character sheet via fax to 555-..... <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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thunderfoot, post: 2919378, member: 34175"] [B]Mr./Ms. Half & Half[/B] I'm a half-celestial, half-dragon, half-elf, half-demon, half-drow, half-dwarf, half-giant, half-ogre, half-troll, [insert class here] Personally, I think they're half-BRAINED!!!! Running a home brew campaign with [B]specific[/B] ideas of racial and monster interactions, and published house rules on what is allowable, it still amazes me when someone comes to the table with the latest mutant of the week. I might be willing to call this a sub-race of the [B]Min/max[/B] or [B]Power hungry gamer[/B] but, this is a special case; its all about the bloodlines (and the bloodline specific feats, of course). [B]The Non-specific Specialist[/B] Somewhat covered in Dragon a few months ago, this person has a level in nearly every base class and quite a few PRCs as well. At level 20 he/she still hasn't passed 2nd level in ANY class. [B]But the Monster Manual says...[/B] This player has the gaul to bring a DMs only book to the table and then begin to quote line and paragraph when I have made modifications to thwart such "guidebook" mentality. Unless your character sheet says skill "Steve Erwin, Marlon Perkins or Jim Fowler: 25 or higher" on it, don't even start. It would be different if players actually spent skill points on things like Knowledge (Dragons, Undead, Oozes, etc), but have you ever seen this? If so please send a copy of the character sheet via fax to 555-..... :) [/QUOTE]
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