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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8198430" data-attributes="member: 19675">Way back when, I asked a DM if I could play a human fighter with all 18s in the physical stats and all 6s in the mental ones.  He let me do it.Bear was a gentle giant.  He had been trained to be a fighter because of his physical gifts and willingness to please.  He found employment as the bodyguard to the party thief who more or less used him as a human shield.  Others in the party were annoyed, but nobody wanted to go through Bear to punish him.One day, the thief stole something he REALLY shouldn’t have, and was discovered by the City Watch.  He ran for his life, holding on to his loot.  He made it back to the party without being caught, and they ALL reluctantly (and somewhat angrily) decided to run.  But before we could make it out, the Watch found us again.  As the party scrambled to escape via a bridge, the thief shouted something along the lines of “Bear, DO SOMETHING!”Bear stopped, turned and drew his 2 handed sword as he faced the oncoming watchmen.  He held the bridge while the party ran.  The guard eventually struck him down, but by then, the party escaped.Because of real-world events, I had to miss the next few sessions of the game.  I came back to find that the rest of the party had killed the thief and turned his body & booty in for the reward, which they then used to refurbish an orphanage in Bear’s name.</blockquote>