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<blockquote data-quote="evileeyore" data-source="post: 1368528" data-attributes="member: 1768"><p><strong>The Gruff Dwarven Fighter</strong> Yup in our 1st 3e game no less, Into The Underdark. If you leave out the armor I played a Brooding Loner Gruff Dwarven Monk. No cape but I wore a mask and used kewl spikey-chain! <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" /></p><p></p><p><strong>The Conan-wannabe Womanizing Barbarian</strong> Just the opposite actually. She was a Mananizing (is that even a word!?!) Elven Barabarian Sexpot, that actually wound up with the Crazy Guy With Knives Halfing Rogue/Everything. Crazy.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Brooding Loner</strong> Atleast one in every campiagn. Not that they are advertised that way, but they are still there. Actually had a party of 'em in the Planescape game we did. Gruff Dwarven Brooding Loner Monk with spike chain, Brooding Halfling take one level of every class Loner Crazy Guy With Knives, Brooding Loner Halfling Dex Munchie Archer, Brooding Loner Tiefling Rogue Crazy Guy With Blowgun and Knives, and the Sexpot Barbarian Wench ended up a Brooding Loner 'cause her boyfriend was a Crazy Guy Brooding Loner With Knives.</p><p>Crazy.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Good-Aligned Drow</strong> Never. Our Drow always come with 30% <em>more</em> evil per package.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Dumb Half-Orc</strong> Never. Never even seen a 1/2 Orc in any games. I'll have to play one now.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Nimble Elven Archer</strong> Nope. But <strong>Nimble Elven Duellist</strong>, oh yeah. I play em. Did have a Nimble Halfling (Tallfellow) Archer Brooding Guy. Does he count?</p><p></p><p><strong>The Self-Righteous Paladin</strong> Nope. I have seen the Wacked Out Fanatic Paladin though, as above but never bothers to cast Detect Evil or talk about Truth, Justice, or the Apple-Pie Way, as such he manages to live for the entire campaign. I blame it on him getting in the first shot instead of wasting time with Detect Evil. "Does my 'Smite Evil' go off? Then he was indeed Evil." Crazy.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Kleptomanical Halfling Thief</strong> Not anymore, but I played one for far to many years, and in Ravenloft to boot. Never did manage to get above 5th level for very long...</p><p></p><p><strong>The Tinkering Gnome</strong> Every Gnome in any Dragonlance game. Same guy, every game. Every Ravenloft game too, same guy.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>New Archetypes:</p><p></p><p><strong>Sultry Sexpot Warrior</strong> See above Barbarian line...</p><p></p><p><strong>Flippantly Cynical Yet Whitty Charismatic Rogue</strong> Every rogue I have ever played, including the Elven Duellist, and the Wacky Kender Sidekick. Wacky.</p><p></p><p><strong>Fireball Jock/The Burninating Wizard </strong> Yup. Almost every game. Sometimes ours are Divine Flamestrike Jock/Burninating Clerics. Same principal, but they wear Plate armor and hit people with heavy blunt things like maces, hammers, and small nation states.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My addition:</p><p></p><p><strong>Crazy Guy With Knives</strong> Whether they started out crazy, or slowly slid into madness, it seems those guys with knives all end up going down the same twisty road. We don't know what it is about small sharp objects but they drive characters to murder, theft, pillaging, burning, and usually assasinations. We would outlaw all knives, daggers, stillettos and switchblades, but the voices in our head say it would be unwise.</p><p></p><p></p><p>TTFN</p><p></p><p>EvilE</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="evileeyore, post: 1368528, member: 1768"] [b]The Gruff Dwarven Fighter[/b] Yup in our 1st 3e game no less, Into The Underdark. If you leave out the armor I played a Brooding Loner Gruff Dwarven Monk. No cape but I wore a mask and used kewl spikey-chain! :P [b]The Conan-wannabe Womanizing Barbarian[/b] Just the opposite actually. She was a Mananizing (is that even a word!?!) Elven Barabarian Sexpot, that actually wound up with the Crazy Guy With Knives Halfing Rogue/Everything. Crazy. [B]The Brooding Loner[/B] Atleast one in every campiagn. Not that they are advertised that way, but they are still there. Actually had a party of 'em in the Planescape game we did. Gruff Dwarven Brooding Loner Monk with spike chain, Brooding Halfling take one level of every class Loner Crazy Guy With Knives, Brooding Loner Halfling Dex Munchie Archer, Brooding Loner Tiefling Rogue Crazy Guy With Blowgun and Knives, and the Sexpot Barbarian Wench ended up a Brooding Loner 'cause her boyfriend was a Crazy Guy Brooding Loner With Knives. Crazy. [B]The Good-Aligned Drow[/B] Never. Our Drow always come with 30% [i]more[/i] evil per package. [B]The Dumb Half-Orc[/B] Never. Never even seen a 1/2 Orc in any games. I'll have to play one now. [B]The Nimble Elven Archer[/B] Nope. But [b]Nimble Elven Duellist[/b], oh yeah. I play em. Did have a Nimble Halfling (Tallfellow) Archer Brooding Guy. Does he count? [B]The Self-Righteous Paladin[/B] Nope. I have seen the Wacked Out Fanatic Paladin though, as above but never bothers to cast Detect Evil or talk about Truth, Justice, or the Apple-Pie Way, as such he manages to live for the entire campaign. I blame it on him getting in the first shot instead of wasting time with Detect Evil. "Does my 'Smite Evil' go off? Then he was indeed Evil." Crazy. [B]The Kleptomanical Halfling Thief[/B] Not anymore, but I played one for far to many years, and in Ravenloft to boot. Never did manage to get above 5th level for very long... [B]The Tinkering Gnome[/B] Every Gnome in any Dragonlance game. Same guy, every game. Every Ravenloft game too, same guy. New Archetypes: [B]Sultry Sexpot Warrior[/B] See above Barbarian line... [B]Flippantly Cynical Yet Whitty Charismatic Rogue[/B] Every rogue I have ever played, including the Elven Duellist, and the Wacky Kender Sidekick. Wacky. [B]Fireball Jock/The Burninating Wizard [/B] Yup. Almost every game. Sometimes ours are Divine Flamestrike Jock/Burninating Clerics. Same principal, but they wear Plate armor and hit people with heavy blunt things like maces, hammers, and small nation states. My addition: [b]Crazy Guy With Knives[/b] Whether they started out crazy, or slowly slid into madness, it seems those guys with knives all end up going down the same twisty road. We don't know what it is about small sharp objects but they drive characters to murder, theft, pillaging, burning, and usually assasinations. We would outlaw all knives, daggers, stillettos and switchblades, but the voices in our head say it would be unwise. TTFN EvilE [/QUOTE]
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