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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7482619" data-attributes="member: 6919838">There seems to have been some serious necro going on but its a good topic...I chose other because it varies by character and often - ok always - includes all of those.Example:For my current DnD5e game, starting at 1st i was given a list of characters already in and saw "no mages". So, cuz i did not want to play "book guy" or "mage-shooter-lock" i chose sorc.i chose halfling as a cool fun thing to play and *also* a charisma bonus (albeit +1 not +2.)Who the person was shaped as (background next and started) an almost outcase  halfling living in a city in the mostly urchin behind the scenes and that led between charlatan, urchin and other ideas as she formed in my mind as a "child-like outcast" who looked like the urchins but took a almost maternal and protective role" being she was actually older.Decided she loved dragons and considered dragon origin but... didn't feel right and so i switched to wild sorc but good lord i hated those mechanics so when the Gm opened XGtE celestial was right there! So, Divine soul worked great with that concept.Then as i worked on skills the idea of perform kept growing on me so... eventually that morphed into Entertainer - keeping the "urchin start" but then heading into being "discovered" and moving up but with her roots firmly set in "where she came from" and her protective nature of kids while the entertainer led to more options that way and mechanically some very interesting options.At each stage, and even now as we advance, those all play into the current choices... like choosing Mirror Image to Replace Shield as her "protect me" spell because it also has a great hook into her singing and dancing act... basically turning for 1 minute "Shayna the entertainer into...."Ladies and GentlemenBoys and girlscreatures of all persuasions""We proudly bring to you,Direct from their off-off-off-off Greayhawk tour.""The four, the three the two the one and only...The Shay-na-nas"Curtain pulls as Shayna and her three duplicat backup singers come through and start the show off with a BANG!!!"Each of those elements you listed play together hand in hand *and* they fuse with her interactions and events since we started playing which just changed what her metamagic choices were to be.No one of them would have led me to the place she is now... not even close.</blockquote>

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