04-14-2016, 12:09 PM
For an online 3.5 game I once made a Goblin Rogue/Druid. He had a severe little man complex, hated everyone but his wolf companion, and dreamed of one day becoming a wolf as she was the closest thing to family he had. Fun little story, he once provoked one of the other party members into attacking him by speaking out against attacking some indentured imps. We had been tasked with basically putting an end to their strike, as they refused to work. The monk immediately jumped to the most violent methods, something like "we beat them into submission and get them to go back to work!". Zeph did not like that, as both a small person, and the victim of senseless violence in his past he saw the imps as a sort of kindred spirit and spoke out against the plan to attack them, as evidenced in this quote.
"No human, that is enough from you! Perhaps you have taken too many blows to the head during your training, but did it ever occur to you that violence and threats are not the only options we have in dealing with the situation?! You are all the same, if something is not like you then it is only fit to work for you or be walked all over. Clearly something is making these poor imps, who even you have admitted are intelligent, revolt regularly. Look around you and think before acting for once in your miserable existence. The imps were not even the only ones effected by your rash decision to resort first to threats of violence and banishment, your Elf-kin friend here, myself, and almost the rest of these students were all struck down by your choice to act without thinking."
To which he received the response, "You do not listen spawn of bile, treachery and uselessness. They were given an option. You will not be granted the same choice. No one speaks down to me and lives." and was attacked with a stunning fist.
He coughed back a rebuttal, "No fool, I listen clearly, even from the start you suggested weapons, citing a particular weakness to silver and fire. Had you even been remotely willing to think before acting then weapons would not have been your first suggestion! You are all alike, all vile evil animals, lashing out at anything that is different!"
Sadly the game ended before I could get much play time out of the character. I have used him as an NPC in a tabletop game once, and I envision him, after a few levels going on to be a warlord of sorts using his rogue and druid abilities to bring together several tribes of goblins and packs of wolves.
"No human, that is enough from you! Perhaps you have taken too many blows to the head during your training, but did it ever occur to you that violence and threats are not the only options we have in dealing with the situation?! You are all the same, if something is not like you then it is only fit to work for you or be walked all over. Clearly something is making these poor imps, who even you have admitted are intelligent, revolt regularly. Look around you and think before acting for once in your miserable existence. The imps were not even the only ones effected by your rash decision to resort first to threats of violence and banishment, your Elf-kin friend here, myself, and almost the rest of these students were all struck down by your choice to act without thinking."
To which he received the response, "You do not listen spawn of bile, treachery and uselessness. They were given an option. You will not be granted the same choice. No one speaks down to me and lives." and was attacked with a stunning fist.
He coughed back a rebuttal, "No fool, I listen clearly, even from the start you suggested weapons, citing a particular weakness to silver and fire. Had you even been remotely willing to think before acting then weapons would not have been your first suggestion! You are all alike, all vile evil animals, lashing out at anything that is different!"
Sadly the game ended before I could get much play time out of the character. I have used him as an NPC in a tabletop game once, and I envision him, after a few levels going on to be a warlord of sorts using his rogue and druid abilities to bring together several tribes of goblins and packs of wolves.