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Post by North Star on Aug 5, 2005 12:02:00 GMT
*sings* "Rejoice in the Archmaster, all the way..."
Anyway, today marks the one year anniversary of my coming to Project Aon and choosing the name that would with me for the next twelve and more months - North Star, the Kai name of a Frost Giant Kai Lord NPC I was using in a standard D&D setting.
Bor Beer for everyone!
North Star.
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Post by Al on Aug 5, 2005 12:39:27 GMT
A Frost Giant Kai Lord?...
Happy anniversary, methinks!
Al
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Post by outspaced on Aug 5, 2005 12:40:13 GMT
Youngsters. Tche!
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Post by Dusk Fox on Aug 5, 2005 15:47:55 GMT
Happy Joinedtheforumday, NS.
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Post by nigthhunter on Aug 5, 2005 16:58:29 GMT
[nuts] NS , I have pick a 1 on the table, now I'm drunk and i'm sptiting everywhere  Anyway good anniversary |
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Post by North Star on Aug 5, 2005 21:40:30 GMT
Why thank you all! And yes, Al, a Frost Giant. I was looking for unusual combinations that weren't outsiders or typically evil, and I wanted something more exotic than a core race. IIRC, he was an Archmaster as well  NS. |
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Post by Runeheart on Aug 12, 2005 7:55:42 GMT
but my 'Monster Manual' shows Frost Giants have an alignment of chaotic evil, (I am showing my veterancy...), Storm Giants are Chaotic Good, at least it's getting closer.Fire Giants are Lawful Evil.
Anyway, I am certainly the last person to ascend a soap-box and point the finger... when I play table top wargaming I am the first to stretch and bend rules to design a unique character ( then my rules-lawyer opponent get's huffy, stressed that it's unfair, then either refuses to battle, or designs his uber-all-destroying-demi-god of 'fine, kick-my-buttocks then'.
Anyway, I love characters with unique flavor as long as they enhance what they represent (can I say Drizzt Do'Urden and not get in trouble, he is one dude that someone should put to movies, Very similar to Legolas..?
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Post by North Star on Aug 12, 2005 11:02:39 GMT
Frost Giants are usually evil, yes. By "typically" I meant evil enough that you don't even need to check the book! (Undead, githyanki, drow etc.)
NS.
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Post by Runeheart on Aug 12, 2005 12:24:21 GMT
Drizzt is a drow... but he is certainly not typical.
and if everyone wanted to play with the limited choices imagine how really boring that would be,
I always wondered what it would take to become a Drakkar Death Knight ( I now have the RPG book) but they always had the most interesting armor of any character in the books, especially the illustration in book 10 with the two-handed axe over his head.
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Post by gothmog on Aug 13, 2005 11:22:12 GMT
Anyway, I love characters with unique flavor as long as they enhance what they represent (can I say Drizzt Do'Urden and not get in trouble, he is one dude that someone should put to movies, Very similar to Legolas..? I think they were gonna make one - I heard a rumour about Wesley Snipes playing Drizzt, though I have no idea if that was true. |
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Post by outspaced on Aug 13, 2005 16:34:40 GMT
Sounds dreadful already. Drizzt = boring; Wesley Snipes = crap actor.
Still, at least it's not Welsey Crusher scheduled to play Drizzt! ;D
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Post by North Star on Aug 13, 2005 23:04:21 GMT
You mean Wil Wheaton? I don't know what everyone hates about him - Wesley was supposed to be irritatingly smart!
NS.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Aug 14, 2005 4:34:32 GMT
Reading Wil Wheaton's blog really takes all the bite out of hating Wesley Crusher (for those of you who hated him, since I never did).
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Post by outspaced on Aug 14, 2005 11:18:30 GMT
No, I meant Wesley Crusher--I have no particular beef with the actor (Wil Wheaton, whose career peaked with Stand By Me in 1986), but the character was very annoying and poorly thought out.
As for "supposed to be irritatingly smart", he was actually an SI character--a "self insert" of Gene Roddenberry--from what I've read. Another reason to dislike him (TNG got better the less influence Roddenberry had over it).
And I stand by the fact that he would be even worse playing Drizzt (yawn) than Wesley Snipes.
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Post by North Star on Aug 15, 2005 8:27:46 GMT
Well, Gene's full name was Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. *shrug*
NS.
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