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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2435459" data-attributes="member: 2810">It looks like Thrandir of the Northlands, a giant character from the old SPI Dragonquest game we played in high-school.  Even the weapon looks right.In Dragonquest, you rolled on a chart that determined how many points you got to spend for stats and also the maximum that any stat could be.  The more points, the lower the max.  Thrandir rolled a very high max, so his strength was mighty, his heart was strong, and he was dumber than the pack animals the party used to carry the loot, and about as graceful.You also had to roll to be non-human, and you got three tries (you couldn't try for the same race twice).  Giant was the hardest or second-hardest, and I was psyched when I made the roll.  Unfortunately, in the third or fourth session, I got stuck with emergency baby-sitting duty, and they played him as an NPC.  I think you can see where this is going....The worst part wasn't that he died, though, or that he went out like a wuss.  No, the worst part is they kept calling me telling me what was going on in the game, so I could see it coming and couldn't do anything about it.</blockquote>