hm... Didn't think about any specific guy when I chose the name "Burke" for my Warforged.
Yeah, I agree about the Robot/Devilpact thing, though with the proper story for the character, it won't have to be a cheap horror plot - "Burke", for example, used to be a human being who finally told the concept of mortality "Screw you!", and decided to transfer his soul into an empty warforged 'shell'. Lost huge parts of his soul and most of his memories in the process, though - which explains why a warlock mighty enough to create and exact such a mighty ritual would be level 1 after that. At first I planned to go with the infernal pact (Betrayed by a devil, that really would have fit into the story), but then decided on the vestige pact, because the concept of a melee fighting warlock sounded nice, and the vestige pact had way more possibilities for a proper melee warlock build. I also planned out what his sheet would look like on levels 11, 21, and 30, respectively, and with the Epic Destiny "Eternal Seeker", I chose "Chaos Weapon" and "Maelstrom Blade" for added melee capabilities. Also, since I planned for him to be at the very front anyways, the Paragon path "Hexer" seemed a prudent choice as well. (I know that unless the character is already being created at lvl 21+, the DM of an ongoing campaign should actually assign the Paragon Path and/or Epic Destiny as he sees fit, as I understand it - unless we're playing DnD like a hack'n'slay without plot.)
Sidenote: sometimes, my "a" and "s" key on my laptop don't work correctly, and that's why my previous post had been initiated with "just question" instead of "just a question". Just so people won't think I'm actually arrogant enough to explicitly state a simple informal question of mine to be "just".
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ninetydegrees
Warforged Warlock Geekery
on 2010-08-23 09:06 am (UTC)Yeah, I agree about the Robot/Devilpact thing, though with the proper story for the character, it won't have to be a cheap horror plot - "Burke", for example, used to be a human being who finally told the concept of mortality "Screw you!", and decided to transfer his soul into an empty warforged 'shell'. Lost huge parts of his soul and most of his memories in the process, though - which explains why a warlock mighty enough to create and exact such a mighty ritual would be level 1 after that. At first I planned to go with the infernal pact (Betrayed by a devil, that really would have fit into the story), but then decided on the vestige pact, because the concept of a melee fighting warlock sounded nice, and the vestige pact had way more possibilities for a proper melee warlock build.
I also planned out what his sheet would look like on levels 11, 21, and 30, respectively, and with the Epic Destiny "Eternal Seeker", I chose "Chaos Weapon" and "Maelstrom Blade" for added melee capabilities. Also, since I planned for him to be at the very front anyways, the Paragon path "Hexer" seemed a prudent choice as well.
(I know that unless the character is already being created at lvl 21+, the DM of an ongoing campaign should actually assign the Paragon Path and/or Epic Destiny as he sees fit, as I understand it - unless we're playing DnD like a hack'n'slay without plot.)
Sidenote: sometimes, my "a" and "s" key on my laptop don't work correctly, and that's why my previous post had been initiated with "just question" instead of "just a question". Just so people won't think I'm actually arrogant enough to explicitly state a simple informal question of mine to be "just".