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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5684428" data-attributes="member: 90804">I love <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/factotum-will-try-anything/" target="_blank">Factotum the Bard</a>. This is a character I created for a semi-regular Living Forgotten Realms game, where a particular DM would be running a game every week with the goal being that the same characters would keep playing and leveling up together over time (it sort of worked).Factotum, as you might guess from the name, does everything. And he thinks he's fantastic at everything. "Oh sure, I know lots about history. Let me tell you a story..."For instance, the party came upon a woman kidnapped by monsters. When we found her, she was in the middle of giving birth (and the monsters weren't trying to hurt her). The labor wasn't going well, and Factotum waded through combat on his way to the woman. "Oh, I've delivered lots of babies before. Piece of cake."Yeah, she died. Factotum decided to actually take training in the Heal skill after that.Mechanically, he's a Bard with equal stats in all ability scores except Charisma, where he tossed his one extra point buy and his human racial bonus. Every feat he takes is a multiclass feat, giving him training in more skills. At level 4, he's a Bard / Fighter / Rogue . Warlord / Druid.No, he's not especially effective in combat, but he's extremely confident. The DM played along with this, and in one game where Factotum was not involved he had the party discover some teenagers with Factotum posters hanging on their walls. He has his own trading cards (which he prints himself and hands out). He's a little like Gilderoy Lockhart from the Harry Potter books, without the underlying malevolence.Extreme confidence is a fun shtick.</blockquote>

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