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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JustKim" data-source="post: 5287881" data-attributes="member: 5478">Sometimes I have a clear idea of what kind of person my character would be attracted to, just as a complementary idea kicking around the back of my head, but I think normally I work by flash of inspiration, so of course it helps to have a large and changing pool of NPCs.Back when 3.0 was limited to a number of books a human being could carry, I had wanted to play a paladin but we needed a healer, so I went with a melee cleric instead. She had wanted to become a paladin, but had never quite made the grade, hence she was Lawful Neutral. I played the combination the best that I knew how, as a paladin with an authoritarian moral compass.By mid-levels we were having a lot of planar adventures. For whatever reason we ended up traveling the Styx on a ship run by mercenary devils. The captain of the ship, whose name nobody recalls now, was a fat, rakish cambion. I don't think he was intended as a likable character, but he was dependable and ran a tight ship, and he was either neutral or suitably discreet about his evil. Something just clicked for me and I decided this rotund, horned purple thing made hearts appear round my cleric's head.The pace of the story did not really allow for much to develop, but, I'd like to think that when my cleric retired at 15th level, she was bound for the River Styx.</blockquote>