the unlikely hero

Eric Hughes · **Joined:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:45 pm **Posts:** 639

Does anybody have some ideas on how to build an "unlikely hero"? I ask because when I originally built Oozy, I ended up with an avoidance of just 15. Great roleplaying material and it really made me creative about how to be effective in combat. But when I ran him in a BI last year, the random avoidance based attacks from the environment just hosed me.

Keep in mind that I really like the challenge of playing a mechanically flawed PC. But I don't want to be so flawed that it diminishes the enjoyment of others.....

Any thoughts?

val Holryn · **Posted:** Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:31 pm

Judge in the BIs! Then tell people after the fact about the amazing and critical things Oozy did or didn't do.

Or invest heavily in AR so the hits don't hurt as much. Or get an animal companion to be your ... Or steal a flying disk from the harvesters and hover above the battlefield

Nierite · **Posted:** Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:51 pm

To me, I view the "unlikely hero" to be someone akin to Samwise Gamgee from the Lord of the Rings: You are a common person who, for whatever reason, is called to do great things. This type of character just screams for backgrounds like Tutor, Peasant, Street Urchin, Former Merchant, etc.

How do you represent this mechanically? Well, skimping on a defence (usually Avoidance) is one way to do it, while another is to keep yourself to 'common' weapons like a knife or a club rather than "martial weapons" like a sword. I'd go with the Expert Archetype, and spend a lot of your skill points in 'civilian' skills like Artisan, Perform, etc.

Eric Hughes · **Joined:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:45 pm **Posts:** 639

val Holryn wrote:

Judge in the BIs! Then tell people after the fact about the critical things Oozy did or didn't do.

Or invest heavily in AR so the hits don't hurt as much. Or get an animal companion to be your protecter. Or steal a flying disk from the harvesters and hover above the battlefield

With half serious talk of banning skyward, some how I don't think flying disks are going to be LA legal. But as a gnome who flew on a flying disk in a 3.5 campaign I wholly approve of the idea.

Eric Hughes · **Joined:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:45 pm **Posts:** 639

Nierite wrote:

{snip} How do you represent this mechanically? {snip}

Ok any suggestions to for improvement?
(Sorry about formatting I did this as a Word Outline and I can't figure out how to put the tabs back in to the text.
{Edit Removed 'Wall of text'}

SamhainIA · **Joined:** Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:36 am **Posts:** 1554

can you pull this out into a linkable doc instead of a wall of text?

Eric Hughes · **Joined:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:45 pm **Posts:** 639

I'd be happy to. Any suggestions on how?

Eric Hughes · **Joined:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:45 pm **Posts:** 639

Will this work?

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=d04648c0 ... tion=Share

SamhainIA · **Joined:** Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:36 am **Posts:** 1554

nope file not found error

Haakon_val'Ishi · **Posted:** Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:52 pm

I got it to work for me, opened it into Word.

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