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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rowport" data-source="post: 2975474" data-attributes="member: 9729">Malvoisin-Hey, there!  This sounds like a fantastic idea to me.  My home group is running through Age of Worms right now, and having a great time with the campaign.  I am sure that Savage Tide will be of similar high-quality.FWIW, I have only had a few PBEM/PBP games.  They had all flamed out fairly quickly, unfortunately!  But, I am certainly interested in playing and post reliably.My character concept is for Vakra Quinn, the Half-Elf Warlock.  I have always liked the *idea* of half-elves, but never really bought into the PHB idea of their happy, get-along-with-everybody charismatic selves.  Why, I thought, would a half-breed race get along with those that likely ridicule and alienate them?  I mean, half-orcs are never played that way!Then I read the flavor text of the Scar Enforcer PrC in Races of Destiny, and found the answer!  Instead of playing an Appeaser PHB half-elf, I could be a Defender of the Race!  "Call me half-breed, will you?  <ZAP!>"  <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=":)" />Vakra will be a sneak, from surviving on the outskirts of society, likely in a Port City.  His social skills will fall more on the side of Bluff and Intimidate than Diplomacy, but he will still emphasize the social nature of half-elves as called out in the PHB.  His Warlock abilities would derive from his elven heritage (i.e. more like a sorcerer than a typically fiendish Warlock background), and like most elves, he uses a longsword in melee as well as his innate magical abilities.  (This might be expressed mechanically with Swashbuckler, Rogue, or maybe the Half-Elf Fighter Substitution levels- I would have to think about the details.)  The ultimate expression of his desire to demonstrate the competance and independence of the Half-Elf Race will be via the Scar Enforcer PrC levels, through which he will develop both his martial abilities and his magical abilities, striking a blow for the Half-Elves against the haughty Elves and the judgemental Humans.Of course, Vakra will work best in a mixed-race party (i.e. not all Humans, where he would feel alienated).  But looking at some of the other submissions, there is a good chance the party will have several 'mis-fits', which would work perfectly.  A bunch of rowdy skalywag privateers strike a Blow for Freedom, and Vakra the Half-Elf is there!   <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" /></blockquote>

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