Two people didn't show for today's session. Including the DM. He didn't let anyone know until about five minutes before the session was supposed to start.
So we started a new campaign. Again. Hell's Rebels. Not spoiling anything. Four of us, thirty point buy.
We have a Half-Elf Arcanist, whose background is that of a court advisor, who dreams of building his own Deity so that he may worship it, and is feeling very useless as a level one spellcaster.
We have a Human Swashbuckler, from a noble house.
We have a Lizardfolk Cleric, with the Strength and Destruction domains, whose deity's favoured weapon is a greatsword, though the lizard is much more effective with his natural bite and claws.
I am a Strix Unchained Monk. I wanted to be a Ninja, but Strix have a Charisma penalty. I've looked into some of the UC Monk's abilities, and some are actually weaker than the Core Monk's.
This sounds like a weird party... Remind me what Strix are?
I want to bring up the question to kind of start a discussion:
What was the most interesting character you made plot-wise or RP wise? What was your strongest/most overpowered character? How are they different or if they're the same guy, what made them stand out?
My most interesting character seems to be Olon Rotlaw, and people who played in my 4e game might remember his name. He wasn't exactly overpowered, but he was REALLY good at what he did. He was a 4e human artificer who was Neutral Evil and was a demon worshiper. What made him interesting was he tinkered a lot with random garbage, going as far as, pretty much, rebuilding a destroyed warforged and reviving him twice, both times resulting him getting punched in the face (second time infected Olon with a spellscar because he was using magic, reawakened him, activating the warforged's spell scar, and getting punched in the face from 10ft away). He, however, could craft gear that was 7 levels higher than his current level, meaning he could make gear from the next tier, provided he had the funds to make it. And he did make one item that was level 13 (we were level 8 at this time) for some vampire kid he wasn't fond of to protect him from the sun, but due to him trying to hide his intentions, he did it. He actually became a villain when he got ejected from the party for killing an innocent man who almost ratted him out for being a demon worshiper. He then killed the party's monk/leader's boyfriend and then escaped without anyone knowing it was him (this pissed off the leader, who thought she would recognize me in the crowd as shes trying to snipe me, but lucky for me, she didn't know what I looked like under my black cloak).
Now my most overpowered character is Haldor Ragnar, who is the seventh son in a family of nine brothers. His younger brother died without him knowing, and then on his youngest brother's (my ranger) quest, he found out this information, and then his youngest brother died fighting his brother's killer. Because he doesn't want to lose any more of his brothers, he stepped forward and fights with the party. He felt estranged because he was an aasimar born into a family of humans, and he ended up leaving them for many reasons (he wasn't built to be a soldier in the army, he didn't feel like he fit in a family of warriors stuck to old traditions, etc). He's a pyrokineticist, and because his aasimar trait is he doesn't sweat and he gets nourishment from food through sunlight, hes been living most of his life in what is the equivalent of Arabia, where he practiced using his abilities a lot to impress people. He eventually got "magically possessed" (actual possession rules don't apply, so it acts more like insanity) by a dwarf named Visilie Kroznov, who showed him what happens when men try to dabble too deep into hybridizing magic and tech. He learned the secrets of immortality, though he cannot decipher it, and he ended up killing a party member's "father" while possessed (I wouldn't tell the party it was willing, even though it fully was) where he pulls off the same scene from Black Ops 1 where he shoots the guy in the head and screams the guy possessing him's name while my guy sees Kroznov shooting him in the face.
They're different because one is a crafter and an evil manipulator and the other is a duty driven, slightly insane, lazy ass who's only motivation is to make sure the world doesn't get destroyed