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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4463556" data-attributes="member: 41321">Not sure how strange this is overall, but it's the strangest I've had that I can recall.In the campaign we've just started (Savage Tide, played just one session so far) I decided I wanted to play a grippil (think halfling-sized humanoid tree frog) and a druid, but that's all I had.  There was a number of weeks from the time I made the decision about my race and class and the actual first game day, so I had some time to mull it over, but the character's personality just wasn't coming to me.I was reading Small Gods by Terry Pratchett at the time, and one night as I read before bed I got to a part where a god with 51 followers is introduced and is in the book for about a half page.  It's a newt named P'Tang-P'Tang that is the god of a tiny fishing village.  He can't count, speaks in broken English, was probably the most pathetic god Pratchett could come up with* and is blissfully unaware of his pathetic-ness.  And as I read his tiny half-page of dialog I knew this was my character.When I told my BF (who's playing in the same game and who had read the book) that P'Tang-P'Tang had inspired my character he thought I was nuts, but I came up with a jungle-dwelling little amphibian who speaks as a combination of Yoda and an orc ("Kaylankuli thinks this bad.  Careful, we must be."), and who doesn't really care about much besides where her next meal is coming from and what sounds like it would be fun/profitable.  I tried to give her a native central American feel.  I found an English-Inca dictionary online (which doesn't have a huge vocabulary, but it's better than nothing) and used it to name her (Kaylankuli means "frog") and her climbdog animal companion (named Allqu, which means "dog").Not exactly like the pathetic newt god from Discworld, but her personality went from nothing to rock solid in my brain when I read P'Tang-P'Tang's little piece in that book. <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=":)" />* Actually, that's a lie.  Anything could happen with Pratchett.  I'm sure he could've come up with a god of bird spittle or something.</blockquote>

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