In @jackjack's thread about Fighter/Mages, I read that that class seems to be the canonical charname in the views of many players. (Not without reason: great class, and unique in that there are no NPCs of the same class.)
This made me wonder do you fellow players have an archetypical Charname (in terms of race, class, alignment)? A character that in your view, maybe through certain gaming experiences or a personal interpretation of the storyline, has come to personify charname for you?
In my head-canon Charname is (or rather: has become) a CG Elven Mage/Swashbuckler. I've played with three such characters, two male and one female, and I consider this class my favorite, which has of course influenced my perception of Charname. Illegal class I know, but I'm aware that many people use editors to customize their Charnames, so I would be interested in kitted multiclasses or dualclasses or otherwise edited characters as well.
Explanation:
- CG because it's easy for me to imagine charname tending toward Good thanks to his/her upbringing by good-aligned people in Candlekeep, and Chaotic because of charname's heritage affecting his ideas and behavior, and also because I like to imagine Gorion as a bit absent-minded and not very strict in teaching charname discipline.
- In principle, my canonical charname's race could have been (and often is) a different one than Elf, such as Half-Elf, Gnome or Halfling. However Gnomes can only be Illusionists and Halflings can't even be mages at all, and I have generally respected race restrictions regarding classes.
- The Mage/Swashbuckler class would be the result of sword training with the Candlekeep guards, arcane education by Gorion, and (innocent) mischief and thievery with Imoen.
I must admit that some Clerical schooling would have made perfect sense to me as well, or the desire to become a Bard what with all the literature and lore in the library. Classes like Barbarian, Kensai, Beastmaster or Druid are a bit of a stretch for me, though I would play them. Their backstories just require a bit more fantasy for me than my Mage/Swashbuckler. I'm very curious to know your canonical charnames.
This made me wonder do you fellow players have an archetypical Charname (in terms of race, class, alignment)? A character that in your view, maybe through certain gaming experiences or a personal interpretation of the storyline, has come to personify charname for you?
In my head-canon Charname is (or rather: has become) a CG Elven Mage/Swashbuckler. I've played with three such characters, two male and one female, and I consider this class my favorite, which has of course influenced my perception of Charname. Illegal class I know, but I'm aware that many people use editors to customize their Charnames, so I would be interested in kitted multiclasses or dualclasses or otherwise edited characters as well.
Explanation:
- CG because it's easy for me to imagine charname tending toward Good thanks to his/her upbringing by good-aligned people in Candlekeep, and Chaotic because of charname's heritage affecting his ideas and behavior, and also because I like to imagine Gorion as a bit absent-minded and not very strict in teaching charname discipline.
- In principle, my canonical charname's race could have been (and often is) a different one than Elf, such as Half-Elf, Gnome or Halfling. However Gnomes can only be Illusionists and Halflings can't even be mages at all, and I have generally respected race restrictions regarding classes.
- The Mage/Swashbuckler class would be the result of sword training with the Candlekeep guards, arcane education by Gorion, and (innocent) mischief and thievery with Imoen.
I must admit that some Clerical schooling would have made perfect sense to me as well, or the desire to become a Bard what with all the literature and lore in the library. Classes like Barbarian, Kensai, Beastmaster or Druid are a bit of a stretch for me, though I would play them. Their backstories just require a bit more fantasy for me than my Mage/Swashbuckler. I'm very curious to know your canonical charnames.