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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5672554" data-attributes="member: 25619">Nod, that's a classical hero archetype, isn't it?But I'd go less with the Jeanne d'Arc scenario (&quot;lo, and the gawds told me to go kill things and take their stuff&quot;) and more with a kung fu/western scenario, of the innocent whose family/village is attacked and manifests the righteous power of the gawds to stomp upon those who art naughty.The usual way for the &quot;attacked&quot; story to work is the endless training until they are ready (the movie &quot;Conan the Barbarian&quot;, &quot;Outlaw Josie Wales&quot;, Inigo Montoya in &quot;Princess Bride&quot;, any kung fu movie where the classic line: &quot;You killed my master!&nbsp; Prepare to Die!&quot; works).But I once decided on an NPC kid who was lucky in a humanoid attack that &quot;boing&quot; her god just making her a paladin mid-fight to have a better chance of survival (which she then succeeded at) made sense.That'd be a cool PC origin -- start as a Commoner under attack, and if you survive 3 rounds, you get a character class because the gods are pleased with your valor, pluck, and luck!Mako: &quot;The gods are pleased with you.&quot;Conan: &quot;Are they going to help?&quot;Mako: &quot;No.&quot;Conan: &quot;Then tell them to stay out of the way.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 5672554, member: 25619"] Nod, that's a classical hero archetype, isn't it? But I'd go less with the Jeanne d'Arc scenario ("lo, and the gawds told me to go kill things and take their stuff") and more with a kung fu/western scenario, of the innocent whose family/village is attacked and manifests the righteous power of the gawds to stomp upon those who art naughty. The usual way for the "attacked" story to work is the endless training until they are ready (the movie "Conan the Barbarian", "Outlaw Josie Wales", Inigo Montoya in "Princess Bride", any kung fu movie where the classic line: "You killed my master! Prepare to Die!" works). But I once decided on an NPC kid who was lucky in a humanoid attack that "boing" her god just making her a paladin mid-fight to have a better chance of survival (which she then succeeded at) made sense. That'd be a cool PC origin -- start as a Commoner under attack, and if you survive 3 rounds, you get a character class because the gods are pleased with your valor, pluck, and luck! Mako: "The gods are pleased with you." Conan: "Are they going to help?" Mako: "No." Conan: "Then tell them to stay out of the way." [/QUOTE]

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