Post by Ubereil on Apr 23, 2009 10:23:20 GMT
The system is D&D 4.0.
My character is the son of a minor noble (called X from now on) with a good name but not that much wealth. He's the progressive type who sees his position more as a responsibility than as an opportunity. He's married to an equally progressive wife. He will have an older brother and a few younger sisters. My character is either elf or half elf. I'm not fully sure which yet, I think both may work.
Fork 1 - Half Elf: The parents are awaiting their second child, X is happy but the mother is nervous. X understands why when he notes that his second son has pointy ears... X raises him as his own (after a few really awkward questions). After all, his first son is going to inherit his position anyway.
Fork 2 - Elf: An old friend of X pops in quickly. He's persecuted, his wife is dead and he brings his newborn son. Since he's persecuted he asks of his old friend to take care of his son until he's safe enough to come back and raise him himself. Sadly he's killed short after, so X raises the son as his own. After all, his first son is going to inherit his position anyway.
I feel both alternatives can work, but the first seems the most realistic, and is also the one I feel works best with what I have in mind for my character.
Anyway, my character spends most of his first ten years not quite feeling like he's the real son of X. He wants to be, X raises him to be an honorable man and X wants to bring pride to his father. But the fact that he's not really his son sort of blocks that.
When he's 10-11 or something like that his father and his older brother dies in some kind of accident, leaving him the top heir in the family (since he's the only male child). This makes them lose their family mansion (to some arrogant prick of a cousin) and using their last resources they open up an inn run by the mother. My character keeps training to become a knight. He's a righteous and honorable man (well, boy... but will be a man!) and he's determined to prove to everyone (including himself) that he's worthy of being the head of the family, and of calling himself X's son.
This is why I feel an half-elf works better: if he was the son of an old friend he would be brought up as this, and he'd learnt to honor his father. A half elf (with an unknown father - who had the nerve to seduce X's wife to that!) seems more like what I'm looking for. The sad part is that half-elves don't get a bonus to dexterity, they get it to charisma and constitution, and constitution is important to weapons like axes and hammers. Dexterity, on the other hand, works with swords. But that's sort of working in the wrong way...
As for class, I was thinking fighter. The option is paladin, but my character isn't supposed to be that religious.
Übereil
My character is the son of a minor noble (called X from now on) with a good name but not that much wealth. He's the progressive type who sees his position more as a responsibility than as an opportunity. He's married to an equally progressive wife. He will have an older brother and a few younger sisters. My character is either elf or half elf. I'm not fully sure which yet, I think both may work.
Fork 1 - Half Elf: The parents are awaiting their second child, X is happy but the mother is nervous. X understands why when he notes that his second son has pointy ears... X raises him as his own (after a few really awkward questions). After all, his first son is going to inherit his position anyway.
Fork 2 - Elf: An old friend of X pops in quickly. He's persecuted, his wife is dead and he brings his newborn son. Since he's persecuted he asks of his old friend to take care of his son until he's safe enough to come back and raise him himself. Sadly he's killed short after, so X raises the son as his own. After all, his first son is going to inherit his position anyway.
I feel both alternatives can work, but the first seems the most realistic, and is also the one I feel works best with what I have in mind for my character.
Anyway, my character spends most of his first ten years not quite feeling like he's the real son of X. He wants to be, X raises him to be an honorable man and X wants to bring pride to his father. But the fact that he's not really his son sort of blocks that.
When he's 10-11 or something like that his father and his older brother dies in some kind of accident, leaving him the top heir in the family (since he's the only male child). This makes them lose their family mansion (to some arrogant prick of a cousin) and using their last resources they open up an inn run by the mother. My character keeps training to become a knight. He's a righteous and honorable man (well, boy... but will be a man!) and he's determined to prove to everyone (including himself) that he's worthy of being the head of the family, and of calling himself X's son.
This is why I feel an half-elf works better: if he was the son of an old friend he would be brought up as this, and he'd learnt to honor his father. A half elf (with an unknown father - who had the nerve to seduce X's wife to that!) seems more like what I'm looking for. The sad part is that half-elves don't get a bonus to dexterity, they get it to charisma and constitution, and constitution is important to weapons like axes and hammers. Dexterity, on the other hand, works with swords. But that's sort of working in the wrong way...
As for class, I was thinking fighter. The option is paladin, but my character isn't supposed to be that religious.
Übereil