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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 8:25PM
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I'm feeling particularly snarky tonight. With all the latest races, classes, powers, feats, and items available, am I the only one who thinks 4E has gone too far? I mean, just for the sake of pushing the ridiculous, I decided to make a Pixie Vampire...and with the Dex & Cha bonuses from being a Pixie, it actually fits as a Vampire. Really? Am I the only one who finds that completely ridiculous? Hey, how about this...I even named him. His name is Moe Skeetoe. Get it? Because he's a tiny bloodsucker? Moe Skeetoe = mosquito! I know its meant to be a fantasy game, but its really starting to stretch the limits of my ability to "suspend disbelief" with some of this nonsense.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 8:36PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 29, 2009
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Well if there is only ever one pixie vampire in the gam world he/she/it could be an interesting and unique creature with an involved backstory.
Many groups would never choose to have either a pixie or a vampire. So it should not be a real problem that the option existed.
Another way the pixie vampire works is that the holy symbol/ki focus implement ties in well with the pixie tradition of collecting pretty, shiny things.
Hope this is not to serious of an answer to you light hearted snark.
The sea looks at the stabillity of the mountian and sighs.
The mountian watches the freedom of the sea and cries.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 8:40PM
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With the right fluff, a pixie vampire can also be a metroid.
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~Mark Twain
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 8:42PM
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An animated stone statue with vampire blood (shardmind with vampire bloodline feat) is ok with you but the pixie vampire 'stretch[ed] the limits of [your] ability to "suspend disbelief"? 
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 8:46PM
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I know its meant to be a fantasy game, but its really starting to stretch the limits of my ability to "suspend disbelief" with some of this nonsense.
Here's a brilliant idea. If you don't like it, don't play it.
Another day, another three or four entries to my Ignore List.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 8:51PM
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Sep 22, 2006
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>make a crazy character with a stupid idea
>blame the system for your own creativity
>make a lame thread
Yup. That's your night in a nut shell. Happy holidays, everyone!
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 9:10PM
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Why don't we make this thread entertaining instead by posting our craziest character concepts (played or not)?
I've actually thought of making a Warforged Vampire. Have a few ways of fluffing it up in mind. The simplest is that it uses blood instead of oil however blood doesn't last that long thus he contantly needs to change it. Or I could go with a Warfoged with a layer of living tissue on top of it's battle-hardned combat chassis and it requires blood to keep the skin alive. I'd multiclass into cleric to be able to legitimately say "Come with me if you want to live".
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 9:17PM
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Why don't we make this thread entertaining instead by posting our craziest character concepts (played or not)?
I've actually thought of making a Warforged Vampire. Have a few ways of fluffing it up in mind. The simplest is that it uses blood instead of oil however blood doesn't last that long thus he contantly needs to change it. Or I could go with a Warfoged with a layer of living tissue on top of it's battle-hardned combat chassis and it requires blood to keep the skin alive. I'd multiclass into cleric to be able to legitimately say "Come with me if you want to live".
You do realize that Warforged don't use oil, right?
Another day, another three or four entries to my Ignore List.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 9:19PM
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Why don't we make this thread entertaining instead by posting our craziest character concepts (played or not)?
I've actually thought of making a Warforged Vampire. Have a few ways of fluffing it up in mind. The simplest is that it uses blood instead of oil however blood doesn't last that long thus he contantly needs to change it. Or I could go with a Warfoged with a layer of living tissue on top of it's battle-hardned combat chassis and it requires blood to keep the skin alive. I'd multiclass into cleric to be able to legitimately say "Come with me if you want to live".
I actually did an Eberron warforged Brutal Scoundrel rogue once, in the first year of 4E, that used a superior crossbow that looks like a shotgun. His number was T-27 and he kept looking for a guy named "Connor."
The warforged vampire idea reminds me of that Nos-4A2 villain in that short-lived Buzz Lightyear cartoon. XD
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1 year ago ::
Dec 25, 2011 - 9:57PM
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Dec 11, 2011
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OP: No, doesn't bother me at all. Not original, either - there was a guy around here running one at Encounters the week HoS came out, and he even had a better name for his, that being Drinkerbell.
Otheres: Warforged vampires are inefficient stat-wise. OTOH, revenant vampires who used to be warforged work just fine, and must be remarkably confused as to how they wound up in that state - I can just hear the gods making jokes about having to put him back, as his the warranty hadn't expired yet. It's maybe even worth taking the feat to regain the WF racial power - that burst of THP & HP goes a long way to keeping you above zero and regenerating, and there's even a vamp power or two that works better if you have THP.
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