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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7139353" data-attributes="member: 6787650">What's the difference?Fezzig, Str 20 Dex 15 Con 15 Int 14 Wis 16 Cha 15, half-orc wizard.So now he's got Int 14 instead of Int 13, and you'll probably play him as pretty chill and zen due to high Wisdom--his backstory now probably includes him being a well-liked loner among the other humans and half-orcs he grew up with, just because he was so much more mature than they were and didn't have much in common with them--but there's nothing about the new stats that makes him LESS interesting than the last iteration; and if you're looking for a combat challenge, he's still a worse-than-average wizard with a bunch of tertiary stats he has no real use for, mechanically. They're mostly important for how they shape the roleplaying personality--and high and low stats are equally good at shaping personality. (Mediocre stats in the 10-12 range are the worst at shaping personality.)What I envision for this guy is something along the lines of, "I could'a been a contender--my Ma said I'd knock their socks off in the gladiatorial arena, y'know?--but that's just not me. I don't like destroying people. I like building them up. And that's what I love about magic--I love the flow of it, the feel, the mystery of discovering how it works and how to use it more efficiently. And I love Mending people's broken fishhooks and socks and blankets. I've been working on this new spell called Fabricate. If I can get the kinks out, I think I might be able to actually make real stuff with magic, ten times or maybe a hundred times as fast as you could do without it. That excites me, y'know? I didn't want to be a contender. I wanted to make a difference."That's one way to make him interesting.I'd probably find a regular human paladin with that personality interesting too. (Actually, it reminds me of one PC in particular, Cranduin the Lesser, who is notable for his listening skills and the way he strives to be of service to others, e.g. camp chores like washing dishes, getting up early to stoke the fire, cleaning mud off everyone's boots while they're asleep, etc. I find him interesting because he's so very different from me, and yet I feel like I would like to be more like that: "he that is greatest among you is the least and the servant of all.")</blockquote>

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