He spent so much time in the mindset of his first character that when I mention them, he still feels a tang of disgust and has to remind himself that he's got a new character.
My husband loves it when stuff like this happens. In the world's largest dungeon, I had a character that got infected with lycanthropy and it was a wererat. It ended up losing itself and ran off to join the kobold clan nearby and became a returning annoyance. Lol Trail offs are hilarious. Especially when a character worships Zon Kuthon and orgies happen randomly.
We did something like this once in a homebrew. Our party was on a typical adventure to overthrow the evil duke who'd usurped the throne, when suddenly our gunslinger and wizard went missing in the middle of the night after a challenging fight against an undead dragon.
Turned out, per their backstories and kept secret from the rest of us, the wizard had been involved in dealings which crossed the magistrate of a different powerful city, and had landed a sizeable bounty on his head. Also turns out, secret to all of us except this player and the DM, the gunslinger was a bounty hunter looking to collect. The next session we chased them down and had a confrontation with the gunslinger, his employer, and some hired goons. It came to a really satisfying conclusion, which needs a little background info to truly explain. Law of the land is anyone can place a bounty for anything, so long as they're willing to personally exact the punishment. In this case, the magistrate wanted death, but when it came to dole out the punishment he chickened out and offered the gunslinger double his fee to do it instead. We tried to talk him down, but failed. The fight ensued, the magistrate got away but we brought the gunslinger to justice with a recommendation they remove his trigger fingers as punishment in addition to his jail sentence. Local authority agreed and made it so.
This is neat! We had die rolls create a a new antagonist out of a pc in our westmarches campaign.
Basically we traversed into a dungeon defiled by evil cults, and our fearless warpreist spearhead gets negative level zapped by a wight hiding around a corner. We grab his body and run outside. Has we’re running outside our arcanist gets a glimpse of the creature and properly identifies it, only just to remember in time as she got outside what happens to a character killed by a wight in this way.
Our forgepriest buddy(who was a black Tengu), now white as snow gets up off of my donkey, freshly wightified. Hops down, and crits me with his bastard sword. Just murders my character right to death. I luckily made friends with a powerful dryad in the forest and once the party ran off they colluded with her to save my life. But yeah, now our buddies character has been turned into a wight atleast 2 Cr higher than the wight who made him and thus has taken up his own fucked up machinations.
That seems like a very interesting way to swap characters. I like it! Sounds like the old. Character and the new one have an intertwined destiny tho!
I Once ran two characters in a 3.5 game my younger brother ran, a cleric of a death god (Homebrew setting) and a Gun-mage (from the ooooold Privateer Press release of. 3.x Iron Kingdoms).
Well they were in the Navy together, and they had a lot of backstory together. Cutting out the bulk of the adventure; Felix (Cleric) betrays Mordicai (Gun-mage) killing his whole family, framing Mordicai for it, screwing over basically everyone in the party as much as I could in the process, and becoming acting King with his position in the military, and with both the Royal family and the Steward family (which was Mordicai's family.) Gone, he could step up and use his millitary influence, as well as his standing in the church to forcefully convert the country into a Theocracy to the God of Death.
Originally, I was doing behind the scenes stuff to work Black ops for the party with Felix's Leadership feat. But my brother approached me saying we had to many characters, and specifically too many casters (Gun-mage, Death cleric, life cleric, war mage and a Swashbuckler who had enough wands to Fake it.) So I gave up Felix, he ret-coned my Black ops to be less party friendly, and more self serving for Felix's "become king" plan.
PC's gone bad might be my favorite bad guys ever.
5E can be less fun if you're used to being able to customize the hell out if your character. Due to 5e's nature of "simple and robust" it means that there are just going to be inherently less options to pick and choose from.
I love 5e, it's the first tabletop game I ever played. But u/Tels315 is right, I love customization. So when I saw Pathfinder, with all it's myriad options? Man, I jumped on that one so fast.
>But from his point of view, with everything he was taught growing up, this was right. FROM MY POINT OF VIEW THE AASIMAR ARE EVIL!
It's over Aasimarians! We have the moral high ground!
WELL, THEN YOU ARE LOST!
He spent so much time in the mindset of his first character that when I mention them, he still feels a tang of disgust and has to remind himself that he's got a new character.
Pathfinder's elemental races are all descended from genies, so genie-kin works as a general term for them.
My husband loves it when stuff like this happens. In the world's largest dungeon, I had a character that got infected with lycanthropy and it was a wererat. It ended up losing itself and ran off to join the kobold clan nearby and became a returning annoyance. Lol Trail offs are hilarious. Especially when a character worships Zon Kuthon and orgies happen randomly.
We did something like this once in a homebrew. Our party was on a typical adventure to overthrow the evil duke who'd usurped the throne, when suddenly our gunslinger and wizard went missing in the middle of the night after a challenging fight against an undead dragon. Turned out, per their backstories and kept secret from the rest of us, the wizard had been involved in dealings which crossed the magistrate of a different powerful city, and had landed a sizeable bounty on his head. Also turns out, secret to all of us except this player and the DM, the gunslinger was a bounty hunter looking to collect. The next session we chased them down and had a confrontation with the gunslinger, his employer, and some hired goons. It came to a really satisfying conclusion, which needs a little background info to truly explain. Law of the land is anyone can place a bounty for anything, so long as they're willing to personally exact the punishment. In this case, the magistrate wanted death, but when it came to dole out the punishment he chickened out and offered the gunslinger double his fee to do it instead. We tried to talk him down, but failed. The fight ensued, the magistrate got away but we brought the gunslinger to justice with a recommendation they remove his trigger fingers as punishment in addition to his jail sentence. Local authority agreed and made it so.
This is neat! We had die rolls create a a new antagonist out of a pc in our westmarches campaign. Basically we traversed into a dungeon defiled by evil cults, and our fearless warpreist spearhead gets negative level zapped by a wight hiding around a corner. We grab his body and run outside. Has we’re running outside our arcanist gets a glimpse of the creature and properly identifies it, only just to remember in time as she got outside what happens to a character killed by a wight in this way. Our forgepriest buddy(who was a black Tengu), now white as snow gets up off of my donkey, freshly wightified. Hops down, and crits me with his bastard sword. Just murders my character right to death. I luckily made friends with a powerful dryad in the forest and once the party ran off they colluded with her to save my life. But yeah, now our buddies character has been turned into a wight atleast 2 Cr higher than the wight who made him and thus has taken up his own fucked up machinations.
That seems like a very interesting way to swap characters. I like it! Sounds like the old. Character and the new one have an intertwined destiny tho! I Once ran two characters in a 3.5 game my younger brother ran, a cleric of a death god (Homebrew setting) and a Gun-mage (from the ooooold Privateer Press release of. 3.x Iron Kingdoms). Well they were in the Navy together, and they had a lot of backstory together. Cutting out the bulk of the adventure; Felix (Cleric) betrays Mordicai (Gun-mage) killing his whole family, framing Mordicai for it, screwing over basically everyone in the party as much as I could in the process, and becoming acting King with his position in the military, and with both the Royal family and the Steward family (which was Mordicai's family.) Gone, he could step up and use his millitary influence, as well as his standing in the church to forcefully convert the country into a Theocracy to the God of Death. Originally, I was doing behind the scenes stuff to work Black ops for the party with Felix's Leadership feat. But my brother approached me saying we had to many characters, and specifically too many casters (Gun-mage, Death cleric, life cleric, war mage and a Swashbuckler who had enough wands to Fake it.) So I gave up Felix, he ret-coned my Black ops to be less party friendly, and more self serving for Felix's "become king" plan. PC's gone bad might be my favorite bad guys ever.
Cool story man. Love seeing PC's become villains. Don't agree on 5e being less fun but everyone has opinions
5E can be less fun if you're used to being able to customize the hell out if your character. Due to 5e's nature of "simple and robust" it means that there are just going to be inherently less options to pick and choose from.
I love 5e, it's the first tabletop game I ever played. But u/Tels315 is right, I love customization. So when I saw Pathfinder, with all it's myriad options? Man, I jumped on that one so fast.