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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 4906268" data-attributes="member: 23484">Hey,This sounds like fun, and with some interesting constraints. It also sounds great for a crossbow-wielding rogue idea I have had: the idea was originally for a half-orc (=&quot;human variation&quot;?), but could be adapted to straight human if that were required. Let me know if the concept works (if not I can try something else!)KSAura had grown up in the city--in fact it is almost true to say she had grown up on the city walls. As a girl she had brought water and then quarrels for the guards posted on the walls, and while she was not especially pretty, most people forgave her that because of the large scar on her face. There wasn't much that could be done to hide that, they all thought, and so came to think of Aura as a mascot of sorts, which was especially easy since her birth parents, whoever they were, had abandoned her soon after the attack that had disfigured her so. And Aura belonged to the city: it kept her fed, and so when she was thirteen it was only natural that a big girl like her would also find her way to duty on the walls. That was when Aura found her gift: for while she couldn't do the fancy tricks that some of the archers did, her first shot was always where she wanted it to be, and she seemed to have no compunction about killing. No one had ever called Aura soft, and her move from mascot to squad leader was smooth and supported by the men she had grown up with. Her promotions came quickly -- almost embarrassingly so -- so that she would have been made a Lieutenant, commanding the whole East wall, at an age that would have seemed unseemly to the men who had supported her a mere eighteen months earlier. But her confidence had attracted some notice, and that was when she was noticed by the Intelligence Service, who thought that they might be able to use a sniper like her.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kobold Stew, post: 4906268, member: 23484"] Hey, This sounds like fun, and with some interesting constraints. It also sounds great for a crossbow-wielding rogue idea I have had: the idea was originally for a half-orc (="human variation"?), but could be adapted to straight human if that were required. Let me know if the concept works (if not I can try something else!) KS Aura had grown up in the city--in fact it is almost true to say she had grown up on the city walls. As a girl she had brought water and then quarrels for the guards posted on the walls, and while she was not especially pretty, most people forgave her that because of the large scar on her face. There wasn't much that could be done to hide that, they all thought, and so came to think of Aura as a mascot of sorts, which was especially easy since her birth parents, whoever they were, had abandoned her soon after the attack that had disfigured her so. And Aura belonged to the city: it kept her fed, and so when she was thirteen it was only natural that a big girl like her would also find her way to duty on the walls. That was when Aura found her gift: for while she couldn't do the fancy tricks that some of the archers did, her first shot was always where she wanted it to be, and she seemed to have no compunction about killing. No one had ever called Aura soft, and her move from mascot to squad leader was smooth and supported by the men she had grown up with. Her promotions came quickly -- almost embarrassingly so -- so that she would have been made a Lieutenant, commanding the whole East wall, at an age that would have seemed unseemly to the men who had supported her a mere eighteen months earlier. But her confidence had attracted some notice, and that was when she was noticed by the Intelligence Service, who thought that they might be able to use a sniper like her. [/QUOTE]

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