You know it's going to be one of those classes when your brand new D&D characters, begging for seperate lives of their own, begin having little conversations in your notebook.
Picture, if you will, a dwarf, of the same general physical characteristics as Gimli, from a race where Gimli is the stereotype, sitting at a bar being questioned by somebody.
"So your name is...Grog Halfplow?"
"Grogni. But they call me Grog on account 'a I likes me ale, see. The Halfplow bit, well, great-grandpa Derek was a bit...odd. Took up some undwarvish ways, like farming. Me, I liked the mines better."
"That explains the pick at your belt. What about those massive burn scars all over your body?"
"There were some orcs, once."
"Yes?"
"Like I said. There WERE some orcs. You could also say I got a bit excited with the alchemist's fire during the party."
"I see."
Dwarven fighters, for the note, are fiendishly hard to get away from the cliches on. Really, really, fiendishly hard. Especially at 1st level. Everybody at 1st level is a cliche.
And then there's Moriyama Kaigen. But I'm not up for explaining what a sohei is right now, so I'm not.
Posted by Dwip at February 10, 2004 8:34 PM