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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 7474127" data-attributes="member: 6803664">Yeah, I guess this best describes my own approach.Let's use my 1/2ling sisters for ex:1st we have Bree Burrfoot.  1/2ling warlock, fey patron, chain pact.  About 11 years old.Bree started as an NPC quest giver when I reworked an encounter in an old module & combined it with part of a DC module involving a pseudo-dragon.The inn where this encounter took place was run by a 1/2ling.  So I just built up the details of his family.His oldest daughter Rose had gotten herself in trouble and had been abducted.  Bree was trying to help her - by recruiting some passing adventurers for a side quest - before Dad found out.  She offered them an upfront reward.  The catch was that they had to shine down to tiny size, venture through a series of vermin tunnels beneath the inn & retrieve said reward from her pseudo-dragon friend Scales.  She'd show the the way.I made her a low lv warlock because I wanted her to be somewhat usefull in the tunnels, but nowhere near the PCS abilities.  1 or two usefull invocations + 2 minor spells seemed just about right.  And it provided a good reason for her to be friends with the psuedo-dragon.  In truth I only partially built her mechanically.  She was 3 mechanics & a personality....The pcs agreed to help her.She proved to be an amusing addition to the party.  So I had her tag along with them as an added complication when they went to rescue Rose. And then things took a really amusing turn & both 1/2lings ended up accompanying the players far longer than expected.Several months later I had the opportunity to play in a CoS campaign.  I was vaguely considering playing a warlock.  I really like the 5e class & wanted to see how one actually played lv1-?It just so happened that another player - who knew nothing of Bree, the NPC, made a character that would mesh extremely well backstory wise with where the 1/2ling sisters were in the last arc they were present for.So I pulled Bree out & made her a full fledged PC.Next up is Rose Burrfoot.  1/2ling barbarian.  About 18 or 19.Rose began as an NPC personality & a mcguffin.  No class at all.Rose is not an adventurer by choice.  She's an adventurer because she has a low wisdom & makes bad choices wich have had horrible consequences.  She's a barbarian because I was looking for a truly bad class/archtype for a PF campaign about a year ago.  And I found one!  There's a frenzied  archtype in PF that's at least as dangerous to self/Allies as to foes.  That's PERFECT  for representing lack of skill/training!So Rose has managed to survive her early misadventures by swing a hatchet/etc wildly until monsters either die or leave her alone.Well, that game fizzled quick.  So a few months ago I made a 5e version of her.Bree - mostly went from race to class.  I built a 1/2ling concept & attached a class.Rose - mostly went from class to race.  Especially when I made the 5e version (a modified ancestral guardian path fits her perfectly).  I started by making a barbarian & attached it to Rose.</blockquote>

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