The Butcher
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My first D&D character was a pretty straightforward Human Paladin with the Soldier background, complete with a “horrors of war” tragic background and Lawful Anal stuff. (I even talked down a bunch of bandits, to the Barbarian’s chagrin.)
When he died three sessions in, I went with a much more fun Chaotic Good Human Cleric of Thor, with the Tempest Domain, the Sailor (Pirate) Background and the Brawler Feat. A hard-drinking, barroom-brawling, stereotypically Viking holy man at the God of Thunder’s service.
For the Curse of Strahd game I’m going with a Human Rogue (Assassin) with a custom background — I was thinking Sage, but with Medicine and Nature instead of Arcana and History (pending DM approval). A demented physician and natural philosopher, a scholar of all things living and dead, with the expertise to help them along the transition (at least one way), and an axe to grind with a certain blood-drinking aristocrat.
(I was going to do an Inquisitive but people both at the game table and on the Internet warned me that CoS might not be the ideal adventure for an Inquisitive to shine. Besides, a scholarly Inquisitive is easy enough to conceptualize; a scholarly Assassin sounds more fun!)
When he died three sessions in, I went with a much more fun Chaotic Good Human Cleric of Thor, with the Tempest Domain, the Sailor (Pirate) Background and the Brawler Feat. A hard-drinking, barroom-brawling, stereotypically Viking holy man at the God of Thunder’s service.
For the Curse of Strahd game I’m going with a Human Rogue (Assassin) with a custom background — I was thinking Sage, but with Medicine and Nature instead of Arcana and History (pending DM approval). A demented physician and natural philosopher, a scholar of all things living and dead, with the expertise to help them along the transition (at least one way), and an axe to grind with a certain blood-drinking aristocrat.
(I was going to do an Inquisitive but people both at the game table and on the Internet warned me that CoS might not be the ideal adventure for an Inquisitive to shine. Besides, a scholarly Inquisitive is easy enough to conceptualize; a scholarly Assassin sounds more fun!)
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