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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6343739" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Didn't want to mislead anyone there.  His character isn't worshiping the god of Smallpox, I was just commenting that there was one.His character in the last game was a Scout 5/Hexblade 5/Shadowdancer 5/Ranger/something else.  He had two feats, something about being specialized in killing mages, that both lowered his casting level by 4, so his caster level as a Hexblade was -7.  He wanted Evasion and Mettle, Hide in Plain Sight and he claimed that he could penetrate and auto dispel any spell effect that increased a caster's AC, including things like Cat's Grace and Haste.  He overlooked the fact that the feat only applies in melee, and he had taken the Flaw of Noncombatant (Unearthed Arcana) that gave him penalties in melee.  He tried, many times, to claim it worked through his bow.He had what he called a "Force Striker" bow that tuned out to be a magic bow with the Force modifier on it.  He tried to play it so the Mighty component increased with his Strength, when he got a buff.  It didn't.  The special bow he claimed it was (from Magic Item Compendium) wasn't there.  He liked the bonus damage from Skirmish (Scout ability), but missed the trick to make it effective:  You have to move 10 feet to get the bonus damage from Skirmish, which normally limits a character to a single attack.  Good damage on a single shot, but it's an all or nothing deal, and you can potentially do more at higher levels by just taking all the attacks.  You get to count your bow's damage bonus on every shot.   And he missed a big thing: Mounted Archery lets you meet the movement requirements with the mount's move action, thus letting you get a full round attack with Skirmish damage on each shot.He liked the Hide in Plain Sight, with a +30-something to his Hide, and a Ring of Darkhidden so he couldn't be spotted by Darkvision, but overlooked spells like Glitterdust that shoots that down in flames.  (-40 to Hide checks).  So a lot of this looked like he was trying to trick out the character based on things he'd heard, rather than on things he actually understood.  His emails are so badly spelled and with horrible grammar that I suspect he's borderline illiterate.  It never surprises me to learn that he didn't read something all the way through.  I'm more surprised that he read it at all.When he Role Played, it was always for self aggrandizement.  Ego stroking, "Oh, I'm too good for that to work" kind of thing.  (He literally said that, on more than one occasion).  His RP efforts never contributed to anything at the table, other than to the other players' blood pressure.So I'm not exactly looking forward to the "Role Playing" he's trying to bring to the table this time.</blockquote>

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