And it’s rekindled my love of creating oddball D&D characters. Some characters I’m fiddling around with now:
- A Shade from the Warhammer Fantasy Dark Elves who got left behind on a raid and is now hiding out pretending to be a “good" elf ranger who works as a guide/scout for adventuring parties…except he’s not very good at pretending. Something about the way that he doesn’t so much live in harmony with nature but cow it into submission, or maybe it’s the suspiciously long canines and his collection of humanoid hunting trophies, or maybe his habit of targeting the most powerful enemies he encounters, killing them, and eating parts of them to gain their strength. My attempt to create an evil character who doesn’t steal from or try to kill party members.
- An ex-soldier turned philosopher paladin who’s completely uninterested in treasure or glory, but adventures so that he can ask as many different creatures important questions about how one leads a good life, or why war exists, or whether objective moral alignment systems make sense. Totally uninterested in gold or magical items – trying to make the Vow of Poverty work from an RP perspective – but will collect any and all historical and philisophical tomes he encounters.
- “Honest” Tomas Rhymer, half-elf rogue/fey pact warlock. Inspired by Moist von Lipwig, he’s a mostly pacifist con artist who got on the wrong side of a powerful Archfey, the Duchess of the Dark Side of the Moon. As a result, his soul has been hidden somewhere in the world and he has a year and a day to get it back…but to make things interesting, he’s been unwillingly declared the Duchess’ judicial champion, so that any spats she gets into with her fellow powerful supernatural beings means he gets unexpectly attacked by horrible monsters to settle the dispute. If he wins the fight, the Duchess sometimes sends him a clue as to where his soul might be…
If you like Tomas Rhymer, I’ve started blogging his adventures!
RFTIT Tumblr Backup 