Thanks team, problem fixed. Anyway, the reason I was trying to post in the fist place was to ask for some opinions on a D&D character. Now, to be fair, because it's as adaptation of the Bard, I should offer this in song, or at least poetry. Anyhoo, in lieu of posting the two-page stat sheet here, I'll just ask that anyone willing to give it a look-see e-mail me and I'll send it to you. It's called "The Charlatan" and I saw on one of your old sites where you had a version of such a thing, but it's more a play-thing character than a useful class. It just happens that I built one several years ago, intended to be an interesting alternative to the Bard, and actually playable as a legitimate character. I'd like feedback because any DM I've ever shown it to had a knee-jerk rejection of it just because it was created by a player, and the immediate assumption is that it will be over-powered, but I've gone to great pains to make sure it isn't any more powerful than a Bard would be at each level. Seems any DM I've tried to show it to is terrified of thinking outside the book. Or, maybe it really is unusable and I'm full of huraka (Watership Downs), but that seems odd in my thinking since we're talking about a world of magic and dragons here, not reality.
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I saw where someone posted here (
http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=6543.0 ) about The Charla-tan.
I once was with a group of guys where every game began
with standard stuff and character that came right from the book.
Constructive inventation though, the DM would not brook.
Reacting with a knee-jerk and implying it’s invasive,
and instantly rejected all attempts to be creative.
Myself, I love to take apart and monkey with the works
And try things out and re-arrange and fiddle with the quirks.
And so I took the lowly Bard, a class I find defective,
Or only useful in a game if playing a detective.
I made him disreputable and prone to speculation,
The gambling type, and terribly prone to equivocation.
One who lives by “Lady Luck” and lives by slinging bull,
And gets so very good at it, his pocket’s always full.
He’ll make you think he’s anything. A thief, a mage, a healer,
But once he’s used his luck up, he’s a runner and a squealer.
I tried real hard to build him so he isn’t uber-powered
Nor underdone and simpering, like maiden just deflowered.
If you will, I'll send him you. You tell me what you thinks
Isn’t he just wonderful? Or do you think he stinks?
hiram
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