Any Ideas for a Depressed halfling Rogue? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Any Ideas for a Depressed halfling Rogue? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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OmniCrash
09-23-03, 07:42 AM I've made up a sheet for a halfling rogue.. he's really depressing.. and i haven't made up a backround story for him yet. Anyone wanna throw out any original Ideas for me? I don't want to use a Normal my-parents-died-and-i'm-sad story.

Oh yeah, and he's got 2 weapon fighting and 2 shortswords if anyone needs to know.
TheBlackBart
09-23-03, 08:02 AM Now, I'm not sure if you meant your halfling is depressing or depressed, but my guess is for the second option.

You don't need any particular reason to be depressed. Some people are chronically depressed, they just can't be happy without those pills! (By the way, wouldn't it be funny, if your character was depending on some kind of magic pills, and his mood would change drastically when he would take his medication?)

If you insist on a reason, you can have a general reason: he never had it easy. He always was poor, on a land distrusful or disdainful of halflings, women either shun him or his heart was broken... Think that one-time Simpsons character, Frank "Grimey" Grimes.

Or it could be specific, as in "he wanted to be a wizard but failed the tests (or the magic school didn't teach to halflings)", or "I'm in love with my best friend's wife", or "I am personnaly responsible for my father/brother/lover's death and will never forgive myself", etc...

Hope it helps.
OmniCrash
09-23-03, 11:30 AM Those are pretty good.. You've given me some cool Ideas. Thanks.
Zoticus
09-24-03, 01:49 AM He could be depressed because he wasn't tall enough to be a basketball star....nevermind

There is also the possibility that he was banished from the place where he was born and raised and is just terribly homesick.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
OmniCrash 09-23-03, 07:42 AM	I've made up a sheet for a halfling rogue.. he's really depressing.. and i haven't made up a backround story for him yet. Anyone wanna throw out any original Ideas for me? I don't want to use a Normal my-parents-died-and-i'm-sad story. Oh yeah, and he's got 2 weapon fighting and 2 shortswords if anyone needs to know.
TheBlackBart 09-23-03, 08:02 AM	Now, I'm not sure if you meant your halfling is depressing or depressed, but my guess is for the second option. You don't need any particular reason to be depressed. Some people are chronically depressed, they just can't be happy without those pills! (By the way, wouldn't it be funny, if your character was depending on some kind of magic pills, and his mood would change drastically when he would take his medication?) If you insist on a reason, you can have a general reason: he never had it easy. He always was poor, on a land distrusful or disdainful of halflings, women either shun him or his heart was broken... Think that one-time Simpsons character, Frank "Grimey" Grimes. Or it could be specific, as in "he wanted to be a wizard but failed the tests (or the magic school didn't teach to halflings)", or "I'm in love with my best friend's wife", or "I am personnaly responsible for my father/brother/lover's death and will never forgive myself", etc... Hope it helps.
OmniCrash 09-23-03, 11:30 AM	Those are pretty good.. You've given me some cool Ideas. Thanks.
Zoticus 09-24-03, 01:49 AM	He could be depressed because he wasn't tall enough to be a basketball star....nevermind There is also the possibility that he was banished from the place where he was born and raised and is just terribly homesick.