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DireRats&Goblins
Skirmisher
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 | | 08/21/2008 5:25 AM |
| I have always been big on roleplaying, and story has always taken precedence over stats. I'm finally making the jump to 4th edition, and finding myself making a new character. So like I always do I envisioned my character: a mage. A troubled, broody mage. A troubled broody mage who killes others so that he can feel alive. Alright, cool, good. Then I looked at the players handbook, and found that some of the classes I had grown to know, like the sorcerer, had vanished and some weird new ones had appeared.
I was heartbroken. I had intended my mage to be a sorcerer, but the sorcerer is gone. Instead I had... the warlock. So now I'm torn between making a mage and a warlock. I don't really know what would be better for my character, because while my mage (whom by this point I'd named Ruben) was dark, I hadn't envisioned him as a demon-worshipping, hellfire-shooting nutball.
So I'm looking for some help here. I'll outline who my character is as far as character and hopefully one of you can tell me what class best suits him.
(Wow, this really turned out to be long. Read at your own risk.)
Ruben is a pessimistic, jaded young man with a grudge against the world. Born into a poor family, his father was a drunk and his mother was a kind but simple-minded housewife. His father worked as a porter, and was disgusted when Ruben proved to be a frail and meek-mannered child that could not lift heavy objects. This lead to him greatly mistreating the boy, often beating Ruben senseless while his wife screamed at him to stop.
When he was fifteen Ruben found that he could cause fire to flicker, flare up, ore even jump when he concentrated on it. He came to realize that he had been gifted with the ability to use magic, and wasted no time in using his newfound power.
That night, his father came home late from the local tavern. Ruben was waiting for him. His father was dirty and bruised, like he'd been in a fight.
"What happened, you fat fuck? Get thrown out of the pub again?" he said, with the courage he'd never had before. His father looked at him in bewilderment for a moment before going red in the face. "I'll teach you to disrespect me, boy!" he yelled, grabbing a nearby chair and advancing on Ruben.
The slim boy backed away from his brutish father, into a corner by the fire place and the large man followed him, weapon held ready to deliver a beating. But when his father stepped in front of the fire, Ruben summoned all the anger, hatred and pain that had been seething in him since he was a child and focused it on his tormentor. Suddenly the flames lept out and onto Ruben's father, climbing up his body and setting him alight. His father dropped to the floor and rolled, thinking it would extinguish the flames, but this was no ordinary fire. It was fuled by years of abuse and torment, and would not be quelled so easily. Soon his father stopped moving, and the flames died out too. Ruben could see that his father was dead. He was not sorry. He calmly walked into his room, closed the door, and went to bed. He slept more soundly thean he'd ever slept in his life.
The local authoraties ruled that it had been a freak accident. That his father had somehow set himself on fire, managed to put it out before it burnt down the house, but not before it killed him. So life went on for Ruben.
Ruben is now 22 and is no less troubled. After his father died his mother fell into lethargy. She stopped eating and died soon after. Ruben found that he had to get a job to support himself. But he was physically weak, anti-social, and to top it off, lazy. So conventional jobs didn't interest him. He ended up working for a small time thief that got him to distract people while he robbed them. However, during a particularily heated argument with the thief, Ruben ended up torching him too. He found that the thief had been holding out on him, not giving him his share of the loot they stole together. Now Ruben is using his ill-earned money to attend a magical college, to learn further magic and become more powerful.
So, what do you think?
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Loquacious1
Sneak
61 Posts
San Diego, CA
| | 08/21/2008 7:52 AM |
| I think Warlock sounds more appropriate with the story line you've envisioned. You could even have some demon or whot not pop in after what happened to Ruben's dad and claim it was he who granted Ruben those powers long, long ago, and now that he had taken a life with them, the pact was complete (or something). And then you could either have him rebel, and be seeking away out of it while using his powers, or accept wholeheartedly, and enjoy the taking of lives :-)
He especially sounds like an Infernal Warlock; all of the fire powers would make sense, and with the Life Stealer paragon path, it would fit in with his personality | | | |
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SneakyJoeKDB
Sergeant
593 Posts
Utah
| | 08/21/2008 10:53 AM |
| Loquacious has a great idea, but if you do not want to go the path of the Warlock, you can make him an offensive based Wizard especially as a pyromancer.
Your background for him is a bit disturbing so a Warlock under the story line Loquacious suggested seems to fit well. | |
"Like a thief in the Night"
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DireRats&Goblins
Skirmisher
5 Posts
| | 08/21/2008 4:34 PM |
| Thanks guys! Warlock sounds great. I can have him specialize in curses that cause pain or despair, as he's found he likes making people suffer, sadly making him not unlike his cruel father. I can imagine him having a private conversation with a fellow student about if they ever had to kill somene with their magic. The other student would say:
"If I had to kill someone, I think I'd use a fireball. Take them out with a powerful explosion of magic and fire entwined. That would be the most efficient way to ensure an enemy's defeat."
Then Ruben would respond, with a distant look in his eyes:
"No, no Marcus. Fireballs are too quick... a blast of flame and they're gone. When I take a life, I want them to suffer first. I want to see the terror... I want to see the pain in their eyes before their life is snuffed out... forever." | | | |
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