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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2841299" data-attributes="member: 158">I think you've setting the bar to your own expectations a bit, d_K. Some people like experimenting with the weird combos, for role-play and for gaming fun. First of all, like a psychologist who worships Freud or Jung, I'll state that Robin Laws is GHOD. Go ye hence, and seek out Robin's Laws to good gamemastering, or the DMG II, since you'll see me natter on about it in any thread like this one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In a current Eberron Game, two players play a Half-Dragon Monk and Ratling Ninja/Shadowdancer, respectively. Player A is a new player, but more into the roleplaying aspect than player B; Player B loves his Ratling, he loves sneaking around in shadows, imagining his character making impossible leaps from ledge to ledge, poisoning his foes, dealing nigh-invisible death as he chooses. He's a specialist; if he's not playing super-cool and stealthy guy, he's not as happy. His eyes twinkle any time he finds a new +1 to Hide and Move Silently. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Player A enjoys the death-dealing of his draconic heritage; because of level adjustments, he's not as strong as the others in melee or staying power; his special beath-abilities (from Races of the Dragon, Draconomicon, etc.) make him on par with the others, but he still has problems being a "power player", unless he lucks out with criticals, or some such. He gets into the Draconic Heritage stuff, though; anything that cements him as more "alien" and dragon-ish, he takes. He uses special magic gloves to illusorily disguise his nature, but enjoys any development with his dead dragon sire, his mysterious Dragon benefactor that he works for, and last game blurts out "<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> you!" in Draconic as he kills someone who threatened his life. (That Appendix of RotD was pretty neat when he showed it to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)  He' got a bit of the power-gamer in him, but a bit of the Storyteller or maybe "Method Actor" in him, because feeding him more dragon-lore makes him happy. He couldn't get that with a gnome, or an elf, or lowly kobold; he's a human, not only living in two worlds, one forbidden to humans, but in Eberron Half-breed dragons are hunted and destroyed by the dragons; if his secret is too widely known, there will be repercussions.And, it taught me that level adjustments do work in-game.</blockquote>

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