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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kabouter Games" data-source="post: 6771217" data-attributes="member: 6788812">I voted "Thematic," because I always have at least an idea what sort of character I want to play. I'm with the people who then work to make their themed characters effective through mechanics. But it's not as optimized as they can be, generally; if optimization goes against the spirit of the theme, I'm willing to discard the fullest optimization and instead concentrate making the mechanics of the theme as optimal as possible. The example of the butcher in this thread typifies what I'm talking about. See also Durnik the Smith in Eddings's Belgariad.I adore the idea of the "emergent" character based on random elements in generation. In a very real way, all characters are emergent - or they should be - but the idea of not really having a pre-determined role until the dice fall on the background table is really, really cool. The character I'm playing now is a themed Cavalier. He's a bodge of various mechanics to fit the concept/theme: A noble knight errant, specialized in combat with lance on horseback. He's totally useless doing anything other than charging at foes, with the possible (and arguable) exception of schmoozing other nobles/aristocrats. My DM and I developed a niche for him in the party by house-ruling a "mark" ability which lets him tank. I'm having a fabulous amount of fun roleplaying his flowery Jacobean language ("Stand, knave! I name thee recreant, false, and craven. Take up thy lance that I might prove thy folly upon thy body!"). Yeah, basically he's Mandorallen from The Belgariad. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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