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[cidbahamut]

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Vince :: (Read-Only) - Myth-Weavers
Ok, I think I've finalized everything stat-wise. All that's left is to compile everything and hammer out a concise and informative character description. You know, the hard part.

[Firewind]

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Okay redone my items. I dropped the Thieves' tools and everything else is fine. Real Rogues improvise anyway.

Lili Fastpaws
Female Chaotic Good Elf Rogue, Level 1, Init +4, HP 8/8, Speed 30
AC 16, Touch 14, Flat-footed 12, Fort +0, Ref +6, Will +0, Base Attack Bonus 0
Shortbow (Arrows (20)) +4 (1d6, x3)
Rapier +4 (1d6, 19-20/x2)
Dagger (In Wrist Sheath) +4 (1d4, 19-20/x2)
Leather Armour (+2 Armor, +4 Dex)
Abilities Str 10, Dex 18, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 14
Condition None
Silent Hunter: Elves are renowned for their subtlety and skill. Elves with this racial trait reduce the penalty for using Stealth while moving by 5 and can make Stealth checks while running at a –20 penalty (this number includes the penalty reduction from this racial trait). This racial trait replaces the elven magic racial trait.

[cidbahamut]

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Okay redone my items. I dropped the Thieves' tools and everything else is fine. Real Rogues improvise anyway.

Nah, I'd say Rogues are capable of improvising, but the good ones have the sense to be prepared enough that they don't have to improvise.

[Murphie]

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Graeme Cahverahne - Paladin of...somebody (still looking at deities).

Character description to come. If I'm missing a stat or something isn't filled in, I have on idea how to find said stat.

[Yygdrasil]

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Diplomacy and Intimidate, eh? I love it. The power to bring people together and the power to scare them away.

Good picks... good picks.

I dropped the Thieves' tools. Real Rogues improvise anyway.

... but the good ones have the sense to be prepared enough that they don't have to improvise.

You're both wrong. My penis is bigger.

[Firewind]

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Murphie's character has Diplomacy and Intimidate and mine has Bluff and Diplomacy.

I can see so much potential for hilarity right there.

[Murphie]

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I was going to choose Ride, but who the hell can afford a horse?

[Armando]

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How about Warponies? Isn't that like half a horse?

Question: My deity favors bare hands, which means I'm proficient at it. Does that make my bare fists count as a weapon? (I.e. I don't provoke attacks of opportunity just by attacking.) Do I still roll a sucky d3 for damage? Am I still unable to threaten any squares?

Also is it me or are most weapons pretty much the same thing?

[Firewind]

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How about Warponies? Isn't that like half a horse?

Something like that

[Taskmage]

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TM. Are you cross-classing as Fighter/Rogue or are you staying strictly Fighter?

I have not changed my plans to mutliclass rogue. Is that a bad idea?

You're both wrong. My penis is bigger.

I'll take penis mightier for 200, Alex.

[cidbahamut]

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I see soap on Murphie's character sheet. I suspect we're all going to get an earful on the wonders of personal hygiene on this adventure.

[Armando]

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I suspect we're all going to get an earful on the wonders of personal hygiene on this adventure.

Nobody fucks with my beard. I store bread crumbs in it as emergency rations.

[Taskmage]

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It's like a hitchhiker's towel.

[Armando]

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It's like a hitchhiker's towel.

Do I want to know? You mean that thing you used to see in cartoons where you'd put all your belongings in a blanket and tie it to a stick?

[Taskmage]

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omigosh, you must read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. 5 books, very easy reading. You could finish each of them in an uninterrupted evening.

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A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

---------- Post added at 07:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:35 AM ----------

Also, later it's revealed that the stains on Ford's towel are actually soaked with nutrients, so you can just suck on the towel in the absence of food. That's what made me think of it.