"What If..."

[Serpenteye]

This Thread is starting to give me a headache...

Sure the Ghosts are cool, but who would want to be a Ghost!?!
Nobody,period.
An endless restless existance of unrest? A constant longing for Life, something that is ever beyond your grasp? No friggin thanks, man...

Huh? Life is just a True Resurrection away. If you get tired of it you just have to take some of that wealth you've amassed by posessing rich people and go to your friendly unscrupelous cleric and pay for the spell. Until then there's a lot of fun to be had.
I would think that people who go into ghostdom willingly won't develop mental disorders because of it. Their reason for existance is not to haunt some delapidated old house or seek vengeance against their slayer, but simply an unbreakable will to go on existing. Nothing restless or unrestful about it.
If your vision of ghosts is limited to tattered souls who run around saying boo in a constant state of pain, then I would not want to be that kind of ghost.

It is cool, thanks , and I think it would be an interesting character to play, wether or not it is a tortured insane disembodied soul.

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

Hmm. I was thinking what I'd want to be. Definitely not a warrior type- I'm waay too wimpy, psychologically speaking, to hack things apart with a big sword. Not a wizard- too bookish. I like reading, and I like learning, but I get the sense that a wizard is more mathematical/scientific about it, rather than wishy-washy social scientist about it.

("How many wizards does it take to polymorph someone?"

"Just one, but he has to want to change.")

Sorcerer would be a good one. It would rock to have high charisma just generally, and you've got a lot of power. Of course, the mental wimpyness applies here- I would be averse to laying waste to vast legions of enemies with fireballs, for example.

Cleric- this is toughest, mostly 'cause I have to figure out what I'd make in a polythesitic world with real evidence of gods all over the place. In the end, though, I'd probably just want to stay away from the whole thing. The biggest feature that would make me not want to be one is the ability to raise the dead. Can you imagine the responsibility? It's just such an amazing power, and I wouldn't want it for the world.

Bard! Knowedgable, high-charisma, and sings! (I enjoy singing immensely, although my talent is questionable). What could be cooler than bardic knowledge, which is like an "any knowledge" check, a smattering or arcane spells, personally charismatic, etc, etc....

Bard it is. Most likely a human one- I definitely wouldn't want to be anything that wasn't, at it's core, human (elves, dwarves, etc.) but templated things or planetouched would be neat. Nothing in the available materials really catches my eye, though. Ideally, I'd take the Shadow template from Manual of the Planes, using the 3.5 update Wizards put out. The ability to disappear in anything but total daylight would rock, and they get a choice of a myriad of other cool abilities too.

 

[Uriel]

Huh? Life is just a True Resurrection away. If you get tired of it you just have to take some of that wealth you've amassed by posessing rich people and go to your friendly unscrupelous cleric and pay for the spell. Until then there's a lot of fun to be had.
I would think that people who go into ghostdom willingly won't develop mental disorders because of it. Their reason for existance is not to haunt some delapidated old house or seek vengeance against their slayer, but simply an unbreakable will to go on existing. Nothing restless or unrestful about it.
If your vision of ghosts is limited to tattered souls who run around saying boo in a constant state of pain, then I would not want to be that kind of ghost.

It is cool, thanks , and I think it would be an interesting character to play, wether or not it is a tortured insane disembodied soul.

:|
You're a funny bird, aren't you.

 

[Serpenteye]

:|
You're a funny bird, aren't you.

(Cartman Voice)Screw You Hippy!

 

[Uriel]

At work, I actually call everyone a Hippy. Odd, since they (for the most part) have short hair, while mineis lng (and blue).
I tell them that real hippies are incognito these days...hiding...waiting to make their big play for Power.

Er...I am a silly bird as well.

 

[Serpenteye]

At work, I actually call everyone a Hippy. Odd, since they (for the most part) have short hair, while mineis lng (and blue).
I tell them that real hippies are incognito these days...hiding...waiting to make their big play for Power.

Er...I am a silly bird as well.

Sure sounds like it... A lot sillier than I, who am quite boring most of the time.

Btw; Isn't bird a dated synonym of woman?

I guess if I had an actual real choice about becoming a character in DnD I would also choose to be an ordinary elven wizard. If the choice was about what character I wanted to play it would be an interesting, cool, evil ghost.

Anyway... How do you envision undeath? Is it always unbearably painful, generally unpleasant, or not so different from being alive?

 

[Uriel]

Sure sounds like it... A lot sillier than I, who am quite boring most of the time.

Btw; Isn't bird a dated synonym of woman?

I guess if I had an actual real choice about becoming a character in DnD I would also choose to be an ordinary elven wizard. If the choice was about what character I wanted to play it would be an interesting, cool, evil ghost.

Anyway... How do you envision undeath? Is it always unbearably painful, generally unpleasant, or not so different from being alive?

The silly bird comment was in light of watching birds out of my window, wherethe various Doves,Finches and the occassional mystery bird all sit in lines, like at a Cafeteria, awaiting their turn to waddle upto my massive feeder (on our balcony/fire escape).


As far as Undeath goes, I'm sure tha it woud be different things for different people, but the extinguishing of the spark of life sounds like a pretty hellish thing, ony to be reborn an undead hungering for blood (or flesh, or life's essence or whatever the various Undead are after).

Despite my wardrobe being almost all black,andmy hair being blue I'm not one of those folks longing for the Embrace of Vampirism or some other such nosence. Nothingromantic about being a corpse for me.

besides, we Death Metal types perfer Zombies...and they sure don't have a fun time as Undead.
'Dammit, my spleen just fell out.'

 

[Thels]

Hmm, I doubt I'll stat this out, but I'd be thinking of a dualkatana wielder... you know, 12 levels in fighter, all feats in boosting katana's and two-weapon fighting (perhaps with dodge) and maxing out move silently (CC), hide (CC), jump, climb and tumble. Kind of a nobrainer with high str and dex (no armor, bracers of defence, etc...) Male of course. Human most likely. That is, in the modern world. Pala would be too much of a burden.

In a DnD setting, Pala it is! The stereotype... heavy armor, big shield and a bastard sword. Decent Str and Cha. And then off playing the goody two-shoes. Race: Still human (or maybe Aasimar, though their +1 LA bogs me). Gender: Dunno. Female could be endurable. Actually, would be kind of like Zoe (see sig), only she's only level 3.