Subject: Luck, stupidity, and lots of shiny magic items?
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Posted on: 2015-01-02 15:31:00 UTC
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Totally selfish thread, but my D&D character hit level 10! by
on 2014-12-31 02:49:00 UTC
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It seems like it was just yesterday my little wizard/psion hybrid was starting out at level 1 with only six spells available to her and constantly being dead weight. Now she's got a fearsome selection of twenty spells, is manipulating time, mind-controlling enemies so they walk off cliffs or attack their allies, and delights in setting fire to everything in sight. I'm so proud of her and I just wanted to share it with everyone.
Also, I was digging through my D&D binder and found my very first character I ever made, and looking at the backstory? Holy Gygax, was she a Sue. Half-Elf Ranger with abusive adopted patents, tragically orphaned at birth and ran away to live in the woods with wolves. Of course she was constantly scorned because of her 'mixed-blood'. The funniest part is that you can tell I had no idea what the frack I was doing; Rangers need their highest stat to be Dexterity. I ramped up her Intelligence instead. :P -
Wow, congrats! by
on 2014-12-31 21:17:00 UTC
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Heh, most of us have probably had a Sue (or Stu) character or two. I still skirt the line a bit with a lot of my RPG characters, since I like weird character concepts. The city druid (long story, which I won't inflict on you) especially. It's a balancing act, probably even more than with characters in writing. :P
Have you heard of the Tenebrae MUSH? They do Pathfinder and not D&D, and I don't think they have any Psion characters, but I'm sure Bellna would like having another Wizard around that doesn't completely overpower her. (Being Level 2 makes Bellna sad. She doesn't get no Fireballs. ;_;)
And lest this become me being kind of in-characterly silly or something like that, I shall stop talking now! -
Congrats! by
on 2014-12-31 16:11:00 UTC
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(I'm assuming by "adopted patents" you meant "adopted parents". Darn that Toey.) I don't play D&D anymore, but I kept the info sheets for my character just in case. I think she might be a little bit Sue-ish, what with being an elf and a Beastmaster with a wolf companion and born on a mountain during a lunar eclipse. (No, really, it says so right there on page 2.) Oh, well. I can work out the kinks and slightly blah backstory whenever I get around to the story I wrote about her for Camp NaNoWriMo two years ago.
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*shakes fist* TOEY! by
on 2014-12-31 16:54:00 UTC
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Anyway, I think all characters have a little bit of a Sue inside them. They are special for a reason: they're adventurers! Although yes, some characters are more so than others. Let's not get me started on the Eladrin Princess who ran away from an assassination attempt, got amnesia, and became a 'Rouge'.
My current character's mother died under 'mysterious circumstances' (protecting an artifact) and her father was killed by a Lich who wanted information on that artifact. So my character fled and ended up being raised by elves. I guess it's kind of justified because her mother was a half-elf, so the elf was her grandfather, but still.
I wish we lived a bit closer together; I'd totally DM a campaign! -
Ah, Mysterious Circumstances, When Will They Find a Cure? by
on 2015-01-02 07:36:00 UTC
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Come to think of it, you're probably right about all rpg characters being a little Sue-ish. After all, how else could a bunch of punks and thugs end up fighting against Armageddon, dragons, and whatever else the GM throws in that night?
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Luck, stupidity, and lots of shiny magic items? by
on 2015-01-02 15:31:00 UTC
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Also doilies. Because the humble doily holds the key to UNLIMITED ARCANE POWER! >:D