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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4855542" data-attributes="member: 29398">One of the most successful characters I've ever had falls under this description.The game was high-powered 3e (for example, stats were roll 5d6 drop lowest 2), and my first character was amazing - I forget his exact stats, but the lowest was a 12 and his total modifiers added to +11.Then I rolled up a second one, to play as a backup (we usually run 2 characters each in our games) and the luck ran dry.  Her best stat was 15, next best was 12, and down from there to a low of 7; total modifiers added to +2.  In an ordinary 3e game, she'd have been only slightly below average.  In this game, she was way down.Looking at this, I thought I'd be rolling up her replacement right quick, and decided to go for broke in the comic relief department.  I made her an Illusionist (banned evocation), dropped the 7 into Wisdom, and played her like a bubble-headed valley part-elf - except for her single-minded focus on her spells.  If you interrupted her in mid-casting, for example, no matter what the situation you were probably due a slap upside the head even in mid-melee!  And if the game had allowed for Wild Mages, she'd have been first in line."Summon the magic, shape the magic, release the magic - you know, it's easier if I just skip the shape-it step and let it do what it wants..."So what happens?  This "throwaway backup" lasts for 14 adventures over 7 real-world years, and finally dies as the longest-serving member of the party after having broken the world in the meantime! (it was her in-game action that triggered a DM-planned rule change from 3.0 to 3.5)  And it ultimately was her flaw that killed her: she fireballed the party one too many times via using her (self-built) Rod of Wonder into a mass melee, and the party...or at least some of it...turned on her and slew her where she stood.And the guy with all the stats?  Died early, retired, came back later, died again a few times, retired...sigh.Lanefan</blockquote>

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