NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 4703942" data-attributes="member: 16212">Well, if we're talking 4E, there is an argument that says you have accepted him as special by virtue of the fact that you rolled him up at all. He's 1st Level. He has already mastered his chosen discipline to a degree that puts him head and shoulders above mundanes. His ability scores are, on average, way better than his neighbour's. The dice always come up for this guy. There's something interesting about him... he's gonna do big things. I know I've said that about a couple of people I've met in real life.But some of those guys drop by the wayside. Some destinies are greater than others... or maybe he has achieved what fate had in store for him already, and doesn't even know it, or maybe a better hero came along. Maybe the forces that earmarked him for an epic future were frustrated by equally powerful forces that just played a better game. He was a potential hero, but it just wasn't to be.For me it's just a matter of perspective, like the question of why the narrator of a novel, or the viewport on a movie just happens to be following the life of a simple family man before the apocalypse hits and he has to save the world. They were following him because he was where the story was, and that's exactly the same reason why the 4E paradigm suits my campaign style.I'm not interested in the life of a farm-boy who ascends to mediocrity and is then killed by the carrion crawler under the gate... I'm interested in the farm boy who sees adventurers pass by his window on a weekly basis on their way to plunder the local dungeon, or who has dragon-blood six generations down his family line which chooses to manifest for the first time in him. Just a different preference.When he discovers those player wish-list items, they are maybe great strokes of luck. But when he fulfils his Epic Destiny and looks back on his life, he will see small pieces of the larger tapestry that got him to 30th level and perhaps wonder what would have been if the dice had turned against him at the wrong moment.</blockquote>

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