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Message: <blockquote data-quote="psychognome" data-source="post: 904167" data-attributes="member: 828">Name: Matt ReillyAlias: The Dragon KeeperBrought up by an abusive father and an indifferent stepmother, Matt was a very independent child already at an early age. Most of the time he kept to himself in his room, so that he could avoid his father's bursts of anger. During this time Matt made up his imaginary friend, Smoky the Dragon. Matt would talk to Smoky for hours, draw pictures of him (mind you, not very good ones) and pretend he was really there. This earned him the ridicule of his friends, who started calling him "The Dragon Keeper," and once his father found out about his son's imaginary friend from Matt's teacher, he gave his son a good trashing and told him to "stop that fairy bull<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> and grow up, 'cause dragons don't exist."That was a bad mistake, because this dragon turned out to be very real.All of Matt's anger and sorrow culminated in that one moment of his father's speech, and suddenly manifested in the form of a huge reddish-brown-scaled dragon, who didn't like to see his friend beaten up. The dragon burnt down the house, killing Matt's father and stepmother, but saved Matt from the burning ruins, unscratched. When the fire department arrived they found a little kid staring at the burning house with a tear in his eye.Matt was 6 years old when he lost his home. He was then put into a nursing home, where he spent the rest of his days, all the way until his late adolescence. While there he spent quite a lot of time with Smoky, of course when no-one was looking, and learnt how to manifest him even when not angry or sad. Now 19 years old, Matt has finished his studies and is now a freelance author who writes fantasy literature. Going for him in his career is the fact that he is probably the only author in the world who can claim to have seen a real dragon. <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=";)" />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For his class, I was thinking that the Smart Hero would be a good starting point, and maybe some abilities based around the Astral Constructor to increase Smoky's powers. The idea is that as Matt's mental capacity increases, his imagination becomes even more vivid, and he can "dream up" greater abilities for Smoky.Okay, now I've got a few ideas for Smoky: Smoky should have the Emphatic Link ability of a familiar, because Smoky is really in direct contact with Matt's psyche. (if Matt gets angry, Smoky gets angry; if Matt gets sad, Smoky gets sad) As for other abilities, Smoky should be Large at least, (so's he can serve as a mount Matt) have claws and teeth (tail slap, wing buffet and other dragon attacks can wait) and be able to breath fire. As for other abilities, some natural armor, a high strength and constitution, and maybe fire resistance would fit him fine...Now I've gotta wrap this all up in a Level 4 character class. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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