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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8132886" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>As I've been primarily the DM for the past several decades, it's only recently, when my adult son decided to try his hands at DMing, that I've gotten the opportunity to run a PC through an entire campaign. So, as such, I've got a whole three PCs under my belt.</p><p></p><p>The first was in a homebrew "Skylanders" D&D game, built specifically to entice my then-ten-year-old nephew into tabletop gaming. I ran a humanoid crow (we just used the stats for a human) gestalt ranger/rogue named Sam Crow (after the "Sons of Anarchy" TV show - Sam was also a member in a bowman's club, the "Sons of Archery"). As this wasn't a particularly serious campaign, I ran Sam as an abject coward and punster - he was definitely, without a doubt, the "sidekick" to my nephew's "top-billing" PC, a humanoid sheep gestalt barbarian/cleric named Baabby.</p><p></p><p>My second PC was a human fighter named Jace Syngaard in a more traditional 3.5 D&D game. Syngaard was a blast to run: crude, low intelligence, irrational hatred of halflings, in it mostly for the money even though the underlying campaign plot was of a more heroic bent. But Syngaard had his softer side: a hidden daughter, the only reminder of his wife who died in childbirth, and who was a target for assassination by both a crime lord and a pit fiend (for different reasons). But Syngaard's more likely to be remembered because he had a <em>bronze griffon figurine of wondrous power </em>who he - naturally - named "Dick." So my players will not soon forget Syngaard's penchant for "whipping out his Dick and riding it into battle."</p><p></p><p>My current PC is in a follow-on 3.5 campaign from Syngaard's, and I play a lizardfolk barbarian/fighter named Jhasspok. All of our PCs started the campaign as slaves to the drow elves, and while the other players created PCs who had just recently been captured "off screen" at the beginning of the campaign, I made Jhasspok's back story that his egg had been stolen from the surface during a raid and he'd hatched into slavery. Thus, he'd spent his entire life (all five years of it) living as a drow slave in the Underdark. Jhasspok's incredibly naïve, with very little life experience beyond catching fish - he'd never seen the Sun or the Moon, for example. (On his first trip to the surface world in his new role as a raider, he tackled one of the other PCs to "rescue" him from what he thought was a <em>fireball </em>exploding in the sky, and he's pretty sure the Moon is just a Really Big Pearl and that there are streams of acid in the sky because the Really Big Pearl has been getting observably whittled away as time goes on.) Jhasspok's fun to roleplay because of that complete lack of knowledge on his part. (The other PCs have taken to explaining things to him as they reference to fish and fishing - something he does understand. So birds - something else he'd never seen before until he'd gone to the surface world - made no sense to him until they were explained away as "sky-fish.")</p><p></p><p>However, I have noticed my trend of falling into the "dumb brute" role and have made a conscious decision that for the next campaign I'll roll up an intelligent spellcaster, just to broaden my range a bit. I'm thinking a human sorcerer, cast out from his noble family and having to figure out how people actually do things with no money or servants or anything.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8132886, member: 508"] As I've been primarily the DM for the past several decades, it's only recently, when my adult son decided to try his hands at DMing, that I've gotten the opportunity to run a PC through an entire campaign. So, as such, I've got a whole three PCs under my belt. The first was in a homebrew "Skylanders" D&D game, built specifically to entice my then-ten-year-old nephew into tabletop gaming. I ran a humanoid crow (we just used the stats for a human) gestalt ranger/rogue named Sam Crow (after the "Sons of Anarchy" TV show - Sam was also a member in a bowman's club, the "Sons of Archery"). As this wasn't a particularly serious campaign, I ran Sam as an abject coward and punster - he was definitely, without a doubt, the "sidekick" to my nephew's "top-billing" PC, a humanoid sheep gestalt barbarian/cleric named Baabby. My second PC was a human fighter named Jace Syngaard in a more traditional 3.5 D&D game. Syngaard was a blast to run: crude, low intelligence, irrational hatred of halflings, in it mostly for the money even though the underlying campaign plot was of a more heroic bent. But Syngaard had his softer side: a hidden daughter, the only reminder of his wife who died in childbirth, and who was a target for assassination by both a crime lord and a pit fiend (for different reasons). But Syngaard's more likely to be remembered because he had a [I]bronze griffon figurine of wondrous power [/I]who he - naturally - named "Dick." So my players will not soon forget Syngaard's penchant for "whipping out his Dick and riding it into battle." My current PC is in a follow-on 3.5 campaign from Syngaard's, and I play a lizardfolk barbarian/fighter named Jhasspok. All of our PCs started the campaign as slaves to the drow elves, and while the other players created PCs who had just recently been captured "off screen" at the beginning of the campaign, I made Jhasspok's back story that his egg had been stolen from the surface during a raid and he'd hatched into slavery. Thus, he'd spent his entire life (all five years of it) living as a drow slave in the Underdark. Jhasspok's incredibly naïve, with very little life experience beyond catching fish - he'd never seen the Sun or the Moon, for example. (On his first trip to the surface world in his new role as a raider, he tackled one of the other PCs to "rescue" him from what he thought was a [I]fireball [/I]exploding in the sky, and he's pretty sure the Moon is just a Really Big Pearl and that there are streams of acid in the sky because the Really Big Pearl has been getting observably whittled away as time goes on.) Jhasspok's fun to roleplay because of that complete lack of knowledge on his part. (The other PCs have taken to explaining things to him as they reference to fish and fishing - something he does understand. So birds - something else he'd never seen before until he'd gone to the surface world - made no sense to him until they were explained away as "sky-fish.") However, I have noticed my trend of falling into the "dumb brute" role and have made a conscious decision that for the next campaign I'll roll up an intelligent spellcaster, just to broaden my range a bit. I'm thinking a human sorcerer, cast out from his noble family and having to figure out how people actually do things with no money or servants or anything. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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