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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Captain Trek" data-source="post: 5910768" data-attributes="member: 6689841">Hiya Now, this is going to sound incredibly bizzare, but here we go... Basically, in my current D&D 3.5 group, we have a Paladin (soon to multiclass into Crusader) who grew up on a farm, and still pays her old home frequent visits. Quite some time before the beginning of the in-game story, this character got a bit too big for her britches, smashing a crime-ring before heading to the farm to celebrate and get thoroughly sloshed. Naturally, she had been followed, and the remaining thieves struck, severely damaging the farm and killing the paladin's younger sister, something the character was never able to herself for until recently (with a lot of help from my current character). Now, the pally's family also owned a sheepdog at some point (the paladin has mentioned it in-character, but nothing too specific), and here's where my crazy idea comes in... As a back-up character (in case my primary character should bite the dust), I was thinking that perhaps the dog also died in the attack, but through mysterious forces unknown (I hope to flesh that part out later on) its essense (for want of a better term) remained, and became bound up into a sapient form that is to be "deployed" when the paladin's need is greatest (as indeed it will be if my current character should die, given that she and the paladin are currently lovers). This character will be the same race as the paladin, but I am thinking of applying the Celestial or Half-Celestial template. Personality-wise, she is to strongly demonstrate the playfulness and fierce loyality of the original pooch. She will be a hard worker and yet also a big sleeper, fit of body yet big of apetite, and large of personality overall. She'll also be, perhaps, slightly more touchy-feely than the conservative noble-born Factotum in our party will be comfortable with. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Which brings us to the ultimate question: What the Hell kind of class and build is appropriate for such a character? I honestly don't know! We have enough characters (eight in all including two Cohorts and my current character) that I can play pretty much anything without leaving huge holes in the party's skillset, so I can focus purely on what would be appropriate for a character like this... But again, I'm kind of stuck for ideas... Any advice you guys could give would be greatly appreciated. Note: Much as this may look like a prank, my desire to create (and, if she becomes needed in-game, roleplay) this character IS quite genuine. EDIT: Oh and pretty much all official material is allowed except for Dragon Magazine. My DM does veto and disallow certain things, but does so purely on a case-by-case basis. Also, the character's race is a homebrew one we're using, but this race can use anything that, by RAW, specifically requires you to be human. EDIT 2: Current character level is 4th (2nd for the Cohorts). Note, if you're curious, that the "Cohorts" are NPCs that the DM wanted to attach to the party (semi-DMPCs, effectively). We decided operating them as per the Cohort rules would work best, even though that breaks the usual Leadership rules.</blockquote>

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