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kismetrose Jun 22 2005, 04:28 AM Post #1
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Which was the hardest character you've ever played, and why?
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Mordien Jun 22 2005, 10:46 AM Post #2
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The worst i ever have played was a Cleric to Mishakal and this was so hard becaures i played it like a Saint of healing , inspired by Florence Nightinggale and the Red cross anymous heros . It was quite demanding to ply such a saint and i had to counter it by being as evil as i could in Warhammer where my Wizard ultematly sold the hole gruops souls to Tzhenteesh

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Hexeter Jun 22 2005, 02:04 PM Post #3
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Probably my most difficult time as a Player was in playing a Paladin. It's so easy to play them as heavy handed do-gooders that would sooner die than do something even remotely questionable. I decided to go the other way, I picked an ideal and stuck to that instead of "Absolute Good". I chose to have my Paladin be a firm believer in Justice, not the Law...but Justice. He came from a Monastic upbringing where they instilled in him a firm belief in his Religion as well as the tenet of "An eye for an eye". As a result I was able to have alot more fun with the Character.

On occasion I was able to do some decidedly un-Paladin things. Our DM had placed us in a land with a fairly advanced sense of the Law, rob a man and go to prison, kill a man and be tried by a jury, that sort of thing. Often times my Paladin spent more time in the hands of the local constabulary than with his group as his sense of morality told him that if a man kills another...he dies, if a man steals from another then everything he is likewise taken from to even the score.

It proved to be very challenging trying to explain his actions to the NPCs that he faced. In one instance he slew a man in the street the moment he saw him, having recalled his face from a Poster elsewhere in the town indicating he was wanted for the murder of a local official. My DM and I often argued over his alignment and the Party also took it up a few times so it made for some extremely interesting Roleplay.
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The most difficult PC I've had to roleplay was a very lawful good fighter. He wasn't a paladin, because he wasn't religious, but that was about the only difference between him and a paladin. Somewhere during his career, he was bitten by a werewolf and during the full moon, he lost control and changed. He was very concerned about this and I like to think I did a very good job of roleplaying the moral issues he had due to it.
In my mind, it is that simple. But then, I'm simple minded. -Didge-
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Mordien Jun 29 2005, 11:10 AM Post #5
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Wow Fixxxer playing that charater must have been hard but very fun ! I would love to try such a thing

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Didge Aug 30 2005, 11:23 PM Post #6
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Hardest character to play? Wow, that's a tough one.

*ponders his senility*

I'd say it was a toss up. Between the very first character I ever really tried to roleplay. Sure I'd played D&D before, but it was always hack-n-slash. But my first roleplaying challenge was when I made a character for a new DM (one of 2 I highly respect) and the character had very lousy stats. The highest ability score was a 13 because I rolled like crap. But I wanted to keep it because I wanted to be sure I wasn't just a hack-monkey.

Anyway the first character was a mage. A very average one that, uhmm...turned insane. He also liked fire...alot. Actually got the chance to turn him into a fire elementalist when they shifted their world a bit which was cool. But the thing about him was that he was just an average guy. He was literally plucked from a caravan and plopped down into a dungeon that a copper dragon couldn't enter due to his size. I was sent in to check up on the adventurers. As it was, the dragon didn't know that I couldn't come back because the entrance was a magical teleportation trap that sent you further into the dungeon one way. So the group had just finished off a Hydra I believe it was when I wandered around the corner and introduced myself. The group stood there, shook there heads after I explained what happened and said, "Yeah, Fancysheen would do something like that..." Apparently the dragon was a bit of a prankster. Anyway, this mage lost two special familiar's in the course of his adventuring career and became obsessed with exacting revenge. The DM in question had a quirky thing for mages that allowed them to either double or quadruple their effective level. Afterwhich you'd drop unconscious and were at negative hitpoints and could die from bleeding to death internally. It couldn't be healed magically, but you could recover from normal rest. The basic nature was that you could channel magical energy mixed in with your own life force that would allow you to suppliment this increase in power. You'd also have to make hellacious Fortitude checks. Herb (that was his name, and his profession before becoming an adventurer was to make his living as an herbalist/alchamist)was known for doing this too often. If something ticked him off he'd channel everything he had to blow it to kingdom come. And somehow survive.

The second was a rogue. I personally love playing rogues, clerics, or paladins depending on my mood for character creation. Those seem to be the classes that call to me. Anyway, this rogue was known as pretty unscrupulous individual. He worked for a lord (a lawful good fighter player by another player) that adventured so he came along for the ride for the intent of plundering what he could along the way. I usually play very honest, down-on-their-luck types of rogues, or the honest thief. This one would steal from you any chance he could, and often did so, and had little to no thought of putting a knife in you so long as it didn't derail him from his money source (the lord). In one adventure we were fighting a dragon in a tower. The tower (five levels I believe) was open on the interior all the way to the top and the group charged in and basically drove the dragon outside after some very lucky rolls and several rounds of combat. While the group was busy fighting, there was a very large pile of treasure sitting in the middle of the ground floor. So my guy decided to, "pull a hamstring" right by the treasure pile. So while the group was fighting, I was looting. I'm not proud of it as a person but it is what the character would have done. Even everyone around the table kind of stopped and went, "you pull a hammie?!?" Not to mention burning another character alive at the stake for threatening the rogue. His name? Tegrat. Which is Target spelled backwards because honestly I didn't expect him to live long. As it was he retired quite wealthy.

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The hardest PC I ever played had to be Relwyn, a Trumpet Archon. Relwyn joined a party of adventurers that was dysfunctional, at best.

There was a paladin whose player had no idea how to play lawful good. The groups favorite moment was when Relwyn spent fifteen minutes chiding the pally because he was willing to redeem evil armor but wanted to execute a commoner(with no trial) simply because he made a poor choice.

There was the neutral ambivalent druid who didn't care about anything.

We also had a ranger/planar champion who was chaos incarnate. As well as the other PCs (the bard, the rogue, and the sorcerer) that pretty much managed to stay just one step away from being evil.

The DM failed to point out a few things when I asked what type of character would fit in the party. It was a really fun game but it wasn't an easy gig.
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I find kenders the hardest characters to play. I'm too mean spirited and full of malice to play something that good hearted and innocent. I love kender though, and have tried to play one at every opportunity, it's just hard staying in character. I recently played a chaotic good halfling, who I viewed as about as kenderish as possible without being an actual kender. Me and the rest of the party had found ourselves stuck in a town which was being ravaged by a magical snowstorm. Food was getting scarce, and our group had been going out hunting gnolls and bringing them back to the town butcher. Later I found out the butcher was jacking the prices up so high that despite our best efforts, people were still starving. Having a one on one talk with the butcher as a good hearted little halfling was difficult.
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I find kenders the hardest characters to play. I'm too mean spirited and full of malice to play something that good hearted and innocent. I love kender though, and have tried to play one at every opportunity, it's just hard staying in character. I recently played a chaotic good halfling, who I viewed as about as kenderish as possible without being an actual kender. Me and the rest of the party had found ourselves stuck in a town which was being ravaged by a magical snowstorm. Food was getting scarce, and our group had been going out hunting gnolls and bringing them back to the town butcher. Later I found out the butcher was jacking the prices up so high that despite our best efforts, people were still starving. Having a one on one talk with the butcher as a good hearted little halfling was difficult.

That does sound difficult. I've never played one; though I do enjoy halflings immensely, most of what I've heard about kender is that they're around to disrupt everything. I do have very evil halflings in my world.

But when facing something like that town butcher situation, you really want to be able to throttle someone - and as a good character, you're not supposed to. Dammit. :argh:
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Sep 28 2005, 12:56 PM
But when facing something like that town butcher situation, you really want to be able to throttle someone - and as a good character, you're not supposed to. Dammit. :argh:

My favourite alingments are Neutral.
Mmm, all the cuddliness of good with the stabbiness of evil. :chef:
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Sep 28 2005, 11:56 AM
That does sound difficult. I've never played one; though I do enjoy halflings immensely, most of what I've heard about kender is that they're around to disrupt everything. I do have very evil halflings in my world.

Yeah, but halflings and kender are about as like as orcs and hobgoblins. To the best of my knowledge, the only evil kender in any of the novels was one that had a cursed item of reverse alignment forced upon him.
In my mind, it is that simple. But then, I'm simple minded. -Didge-
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But why are there no evil kender? (Forgive me, but I only know so much about DL)
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Sep 28 2005, 04:20 PM
But why are there no evil kender? (Forgive me, but I only know so much about DL)

It simply isn't in their nature to be evil. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just that you never see any evil butterflies. No one questions this, since butterflies are happy-go-lucky and full of wanderlust and simply don't seem to have the capacity to be good or evil in them. Kender are much the same way.
In my mind, it is that simple. But then, I'm simple minded. -Didge-
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Kender opitomize everything that is good and innocent about a child, curious, fickle, and easily distracted by anything that would interest a child. Coins, bah, everyone's seen lots of coins, but that old dusty map the sage wont let anyone get a good look at, now that is temptation that can not be resisted to a kender.

They have a tendency to disrupt things, though they shouldn't be played as the guy who ruins the DM's carefuly laid plans every single time. How I see kenders playd more often then not is chaotic stupid as opposed to chaotic good. Many people use kender curiosity as just an excuse to steal everything that isn't nailed down, and pester every PC/NPC they kind find to the point of suicide (which in all honesty isn't too far off the mark, but they anoying klepto kender is a horse which has been kicked more often than any other cliche I can think of).
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I see now. I can see how a kender might be difficult to play (especially without the other players wanting to throttle you) - I mean, they're supposed to be childlike and innocent, and many of us haven't been that way in a looong time.
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