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<blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 2840359" data-attributes="member: 36349"><p><strong>Reg: Variant characters</strong></p><p></p><p>I know of one who wanted to play somekind of "Paragon" character listing out some idiotic advantages but he plays and I think runs a game where everyone at the table could be described as "munchkins".</p><p>I know that if he wanted to run a character in one of my games there would be restrictions on what can be run but I don't agree with how some of the core classes were treated in 3.0 and even less in 3.5, BUT I'd at least discuss alterations and even have done so on athread here just to make sure I don't ruin the game over something I consider meaningless.</p><p>Stats isn't everything, one of that group I mentioned ran a character in a Sharp inspired campaign set in 2nd edition and he got seriously hurt running amok without thinking what he was doing. He's even run a White Wolf game with Highlander motifs and promptly forgot some of the details of the movies just to make his npc's cooler.</p><p>Of course the other players being smarter than he was tried to regain control with one who was playing a police inspector trying to arrest him after an extended chase up to Lakeside where he pulled heavy artillery out of his pockets and after a rival immortal picked a fight with my character in complete ignorance of said movie and series forcing the other characters to shoot said villain who possessed ridiculous stats for an introductory henchmen and after beating him I tried to spare his life he promptly attacked me again ignoring the fact there were wtinesses present.</p><p>There are just some occasions where hints just don't work and he is currently running a half dragon in that person's campaign by the way and the guy running it asked ME for help whilst in full hearing of him...</p><p>And no I didn't say start from scratch with normal characters, I doubt they would have been interested, the only drow I've ever allowed in a 3e game was based on Oriental rules and made very Lawful and NOT evil because of info in that book regarding the far east.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hopeless, post: 2840359, member: 36349"] [b]Reg: Variant characters[/b] I know of one who wanted to play somekind of "Paragon" character listing out some idiotic advantages but he plays and I think runs a game where everyone at the table could be described as "munchkins". I know that if he wanted to run a character in one of my games there would be restrictions on what can be run but I don't agree with how some of the core classes were treated in 3.0 and even less in 3.5, BUT I'd at least discuss alterations and even have done so on athread here just to make sure I don't ruin the game over something I consider meaningless. Stats isn't everything, one of that group I mentioned ran a character in a Sharp inspired campaign set in 2nd edition and he got seriously hurt running amok without thinking what he was doing. He's even run a White Wolf game with Highlander motifs and promptly forgot some of the details of the movies just to make his npc's cooler. Of course the other players being smarter than he was tried to regain control with one who was playing a police inspector trying to arrest him after an extended chase up to Lakeside where he pulled heavy artillery out of his pockets and after a rival immortal picked a fight with my character in complete ignorance of said movie and series forcing the other characters to shoot said villain who possessed ridiculous stats for an introductory henchmen and after beating him I tried to spare his life he promptly attacked me again ignoring the fact there were wtinesses present. There are just some occasions where hints just don't work and he is currently running a half dragon in that person's campaign by the way and the guy running it asked ME for help whilst in full hearing of him... And no I didn't say start from scratch with normal characters, I doubt they would have been interested, the only drow I've ever allowed in a 3e game was based on Oriental rules and made very Lawful and NOT evil because of info in that book regarding the far east. [/QUOTE]
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