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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4442574" data-attributes="member: 29398">Ah, a topic dear to my heart. <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=":)" />Lanefan, my namesake here and first rolled up in early 1984, was on paper a simple Fighter...strong, tough, halfway smart, and not overly wise; specialized in longsword.In play he turned into one of the more memorable characters we've had.  His chaotic grasp of tactics consisted of yelling at the other fighter "go left!" as they charged into a room full of enemies.  He never met a magic longsword he didn't like and he didn't care if it was owned by someone else; if he could find a way to half-safely walk off with it, he would...and did, on more than one occasion.  In a system that doesn't have the nonsense of AoO's he developed the run-and-slash combat tactic for open-field encounters - disengage, then run in, strike, and keep going before the opponent (busy fighting someone else) can react.  He went through money like it was water...easy come, easy go...and has sacrificed tens of thousands of g.p. worth of goods and coin to various gods to get his butt out of trouble.  He became something of an expert on field-testing magic items, to the point where he literally wrote the book on the topic!  He drank like a fish, swore like a sailor, and learned over time that magic-users are the lowest form of life in the universe...particularly those in the same party as he is...so imagine his glee when later in his career he acquired a Wizardslayer longsword! <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 I as player never tire of rolling dice to clobber things and make them hurt.And he is...still...going!  He's currently retired in an active game, waiting for the played party to catch up to him both in game-world time and in level.Whenever I hear people complain that Fighters are boring to play, I just think of Lanefan and a few dozen others I've seen and-or run with, and wonder what those people are talking about.Lanefan</blockquote>

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