Speaking of D&D, I've taken part in a party-building contest atwixt a few friends and I, where we each build four level 10 characters using the partial gestalt rules from the tier system and fight one another. (Weaker classes like monk can gestalt with other weak classes, while wizards and whatnot don't.) I almost always win optimization fights, so I decided to make the most flavorful characters I could within the four-day character creation time limit. (And I actually made 8 so that I'd have backups. It's a fast process after DM'ing for over a year.)
Enter Lord Shwarzschild, the Hexblade/Knight come Hexblade/Master Thrower. He's level 10 Hexblade, so only gets three spells per day. His circlet of rapid casting lets him use all three as swift actions. He would normally be restricted to light armor, but instead wears blue ice heavy plate, which handily enough lets him cast all cold-type spells with no arcane failure chance. He has the feat Snowcasting, which lets him make any spell into the cold type so long as he uses snow as a material component. We're not fighting on a snowy tundra, so I brought a tiny chest made of blue ice (permanent magical cold ice) that could hold a few handfuls of snow. He rides a winter wolf. Flavoriffic.
Why the name? He dual-wields magical harpoons, a weapon from the Frostburn setting. Harpoons stick into enemies and reduce their move speed until removed, which takes a whole turn and does more damage. With the 'fleshgrinding' enhancement, they do damage every round until removed. Better yet, the harpoons come with attached ropes that allow you to make a strength check to control the movement of an enemy. Instead of using his average strength score to do that, he just ties the ropes to his saddle so that the wolf makes the checks. The wolf drags the enemies closer, into the 15' threat radius that Ranged Threat allows him. Being a Knight, any threatened square is difficult terrain and no enemy can make a five foot step in it, et cetera. They're stuck, and he can keep piling on harpoons, making attacks of opportunity if they try to cast a spell or move any closer or further away. He is invincible, unstoppable, and downright hilarious.
He is a black hole, and he has a Shwarzschild Radius. (Of about 120'.)
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