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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2646104" data-attributes="member: 2205">Sounds like what you need is a slightly over-the-top hook or two.  Whatever differences you're making in your characters are too subtle to show through in actual play.  Here's a few examples I've seen.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A druid who was a bit obsessive/compulsize with cleanliness.  She had all kinds of little bars of soap, and she'd whip them out to wash her hands all the time.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A ranger who was also a bit of a dandy.  He was a major elfophile, and liked to dress and affect and elvish attitude.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Another player, riffing off of that concept, made a character who was a tall, lanky human (described as looking like the Disney version of Ichabod Crane), yet he honestly believed that he was a dwarf.  He was the most radical and vocal pro-dwarf advocate you'd ever meet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A goblin who grew up in a small town, and had sorta "made good" financially and socially.  He liked to pretend he was a sophisticated, but when the <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=":)" /> hit the fan, he'd fly into a rage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A character who was paranoid of an imagined doppleganger (or changelings, but you already did Eberron, I guess) conspiracy.  Imagine Fox Mulder, or Kolchak, except they really are just paranoid.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Some Like it Hot routine; a character is hiding out, disguised as a member of the opposite sex, or another race, or something.  Always looking over his shoulder for some big organized crime boss who he imagines is right behind him all the time.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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