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#1 zombiegleemax Jan 10, 2006 0:46:06	Use this thread to post your cool character ideas. Be they PCs or NPCs, hopefully we can use it to inspire new and unique characters for our current campaigns. I'll begin: Eriakis, Elven Rogue4/Assassin2/Psychic Warrior1 Eriakis is in high demand for his services throughout the Tablelands by Templars and Merchant Houses alike. He has contacts with at least one representative in every elven market in every city-state. As an assassin, he has the Change Self spell, and as a Psychic Warrior, he has the Call Weaponry Power. When he closes in on a target, he assumes the form of someone the target knows, gets him/her alone, or even out in the open, then materializes a blood obsidian dagger to his hand and delivers the killing blow. Eriakis then assumes another form to melt away into the crowd. At any given time, he never carries a weapon, this way he's clean if he's ever searched by the authorities. Thanks to his Call Weaponry power, Eriakis is likewise never unarmed, as he also has the Quicken Power feat. What's your character like?
#2 darksoulman Jan 10, 2006 1:47:30	At any given time, he never carries a weapon, this way he's clean if he's ever searched by the authorities. Thanks to his Call Weaponry power, Eriakis is likewise never unarmed, as he also has the Quicken Power feat. Pretty cool concept. Just a short note, Eriakis can't use the Quicken Power feat, since he's a PsyWar1 and the feat increases the cost by 6 PPs, meaning he has to be at least lvl 7 to quicken a lvl 1 power.
#3 zombiegleemax Jan 11, 2006 19:22:04	By cracky, you're right. Well, it's a contingency feat then... for now. Anyone else with a character concept?
#4 zombiegleemax Jan 11, 2006 22:16:07	Athrialix the Lion Psychic Warrior 5 (I use regional feats, partial armor, and special material rules) Athrialix is a man of 5'10" and 175lbs frame, and a warrior renowned within his ranks. Without his armor, he was able to move almost as fast a light Crodlu and hit almost as hard as a half giant as he charged with a simple miners pick. Hamanu's generals looked for an actual prized body within the obsidian quarries...and they found him stripping a half giant of his pick and slamming it into his face. He has severe rage and paranoia issues and was almost executed for multiple accounts of assault against an officer. Finally, he deserted the army during hamanu's escapades with the crimson legion, switching sides and fighting hard for the former slaves...which had himself had once been. regional: furious charger, human: power attack, 1: Cleave, Bonus 1: Power Charger, Bonus 2: Monkey grip, 3: Psionic Weapon, Bonus 5: Psychic Meditation Weapons: (Half-Giant) Obsidian Great Macahuitl, Bone Impaler yeah...powers mainly used: expansion, force screen, skate, Psychic Lion's Charge, and Hustle 2nd character Ydris the unpredictable 5 Wilder/ 5 Thrall Herd The young noble was a looker to say the least...and that's what was her undoing. Becoming pregnant from an elven slave-soldier, her father began to beat her when she began to show and it was definitely not just her gaining weight. This is when she first started, stressing out enough over it that she not only had an abortion because of that or her father beating her savagely, but she also crushed his head. Running out and living out with a raiding tribe, she quickly became the top...mostly with threats of exploding heads >8D. Currently she is leading her tribe through, and settling down in the warrens of tyr...but i'm sure she's not quite willing to sacrifice her power yet...
#5 zombiegleemax Jan 14, 2006 21:14:21	Moscone Sorcerer (Shadow Wizard)5/ Psion3 Moscone has been obsessed with the Black since he encountered a Shadow Giant as a child. When he entered his teens, he met a Shadow Wizard in the streets on Urik, who apprenticed him. As time passed, Moscone's body slowly became consumed by shadow, which he keeps concealed beneath robes with lots of folds. Moscone makes a living on Athas by scavenging. Whatever he finds, either out in the wilderness or in the trash of the city-states, he keeps, cleans up and then turns around and sells for reasonable prices. During a series of adventures during the Age of Heroes, Moscone was visited by the same Shadow Giant he met in his youth. The Shadow Giant took Moscone into the Black with him, furthered his Shadow magic training as well as his training in the Way. 300 years later, Moscone has emerged from the Black a changed man. He no longer views the world in terms of the political power struggle nor the struggle for survival that occupies all of Athas' denizens- in fact, he's become slightly eccentric from his time spent there, having also met with the imprisoned Rajaat. He was also instrumental in helping Andropinis escaped from his imprisonment. The Sorcerer-King of Balic has offered Moscone a templar position if he should ever leave the Black. But Moscone doesn't want power. He merely told the King of Balic he may come calling for a favor one day...
#6 seker Jan 15, 2006 20:16:07	Heh I guess I will let you in on my name sake in Darksun. This is a NPC I have used in my campaigns since the beginnings of the Darksun campaing when it was released. Seker Alignment true neutral Class/level ..... let us just say he is a 1st stage dragon (he fuels all his spells by either animal life energy or from power from the sun {as he uses the power of the black, similiar to a shadow giant} only though.) Though he appears as a human most of the time, he also can assume the shape of a shadow giant, or his true form..... a halfing male. He is ancient by most ideas, as he remembers the green age and the wars well. In fact he studied Rajaats works extensively prior to the cleansing wars, and though he despised the first Sorcerers methods.... he approved of the goal. His own transformation into a dragon was accomplished by his devouring the life essences of thousands of Halflings, who willingly gave up their lives so that he could transform. None of the rebirth races were used in the fueling of his transformation, so as to keep it pure and untainted in his eyes. His link to the Black came from his studies of the halfling servants of Rajaat, and they are well aware of him. He currently works towards finding a way to reverse the rebirth and fix the changes that were made to the world. Much of this comes in his hunting down of the dragons and defilers of the world and using their life essences and bodies as pieces of items that are designed to bring about changes in their wielders and the area around them. Basically the magic/psionic items he creates over time begin transforming their wielders, first mentally and then physically, into the ancient race of halflings. In addition the items that have charges drain life essance from those in the drain radius to power the magic...... but it also in turn implants the beginings of the change in those drained. Therefor transforming the wielders companions, and possibly bystanders, into halflings as well. The irony of his being is the fact that he is totally against the very nature of defiling.... but he himself is the most powerful form of defiler.... a dragon.
#7 Pennarin Jan 15, 2006 21:19:53	Ah'Navor. Lawful Evil. Royal defiler and monarch's chosen of Abalach-Re. "Created" by his queen so she could throw a powerful and relentless servant on Farcluun's trail. Once he's found his quarry he's to phone home and the queen and several powerful templars will gate in to his position and terminate the upstart dragon. Ah'Navor is necessary because Farcluun is protected from scrying and detection spells, and since Abalach-Re is too busy to go hunting for him by herself she needs a loyal servant who'll track Farcluun the old fashionned way for her, no matter how long it takes, for years if necessary. After Abalach-Re's death, Ah'Navor elected to continue pursuing Farcluun out of sheer hatred. Note: In my campaign, the being the PCs encounter in the Black Flames adventure, and which is mortally wounded by Abalach-Re and finished off by the PCs was an epic simulacrum of Farcluun. As such, the real Farcluun is still alive to this day, and kicking. Also, the reason for Abalach-Re hating Farcluun (as stated in Black Flames) is that he once was her servant - before he became a dragon - and fooled her for many years.
#8 zombiegleemax Jan 16, 2006 1:24:05	First off, please note that this post is utilizing the Ravenloft Forbidden Lore material from way back in the day, adding my own spin to it: When Kalidnay suffered its cataclysm as a result of Thakok-An's obsession over Kalid-Ma, the city-state was pulled into the Demiplane of Dread. Meanwhile, back on Athas, the result was catastrophic- most of the population was killed violently when the city vanished. In actuality, it was Kalidnay's psychic 'apparition' that was pulled into the mists, leaving behind a ruined city. A Caller in Darkness was formed in its wake from all the deceased souls. The Caller lay dormant for centuries. Word spread of untold riches to be plundered, drawing bandit gangs and Belgoi tribes. The bandit tribe that united the others is led by a one-armed Athasian Mul zombie named Arikett that makes its home in the ruins of the royal palace. During the skirmishes between the bandit gangs and the Belgoi, more souls were added to the Caller in Darkness, awakening it. Since Arikett is dead, he doesn't have a soul for the Caller to claim, but instead works with him and strengthens him. The Caller is using Arikett to gain access to the ziggurat where a powerful artifact resides that can set the Caller free. But the psychic echo of Thakok-An still resides within the ziggurat, believing it's protecting the slumbering form of Kalid-Ma, who is physically not there, but in the Ravenloft version of Kalidnay. As I said, this is from my notes from years ago. I know the whole Ravenloft aspect was tossed out the window after Forbidden Lore came out, but I rather like that angle of it.