The combat optimist. [Archive] - Wizards Community

The combat optimist. [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Aggrenox
02-08-07, 05:28 PM I'm currently designing a character for a game. I'm going to play a Swashbuckler4/Bard2/Fortunes Friend5.

His bardic ability is "combat optimism". He tells everyone how "it will be ok", and "better luck on that next swing fighter!"

Basicly his outlook on life is, that everything will work out ok. (he has nothing but luck feats).

Any suggestions for background?
trickydevl666
02-08-07, 07:24 PM Maybe all his life he always believed that having a good attitude can effect the outcome of anything. If you always had a good clean, positive attitude then the odds will always come out in your favor. He may have grown up in a terrible situation (orphan?) and had to learn how to get through some tough parts of life on the streets, but his happy go lucky attitude helped him get through. His fortune changed when he came across a bard who for some reason another decided to take your character under his wing. Since then he has seen his fortune get better and better, and he believes that it was because his positive attitude. Now he wanders along, taking whatever life throws him, and always expecting the best out of everything.
Uberwoot
02-08-07, 09:55 PM I can't help but imagining he had some sort of absolute disaster story of a life, a rollercoaster of extreme highs and abysmal lows, and he always finds it marvelous that somehow he's managed to survive. He loves the lows almost as much as he loves the highs. His optimism stems from his intimate familiarity with the worst bits of life, and how things always seem to get better.

What comes to mind first:

He was a wealthy merchant's son, and grew up having all the same instructors as all the nobles, but found himself easily distracted by beauty of form or substance; he spent more time having adventures in love than learning the "important" things, but still managed to pick up a great deal of trivial knowledge- and skill at wooing and manipulation. When his father died, he was paupered by his father's will, which gave the entire family fortune to the father's mistress (who had no particular affinity for the boy). Regardless of this enormous reversal of fortune, he viewed his ejection from high society as a serendipitous escape from the clutches of his old lovers and scrapes with rivals.

Beyond that... I have a feeling that maybe he accidentally foiled a burglar and was rewarded by the shopkeeper whose valuables he returned, then used the money to start up a business, which failed miserably. I can't think of any other events right now, though.

Seems fun. I've never played an optimist before.

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Aggrenox 02-08-07, 05:28 PM	I'm currently designing a character for a game. I'm going to play a Swashbuckler4/Bard2/Fortunes Friend5. His bardic ability is "combat optimism". He tells everyone how "it will be ok", and "better luck on that next swing fighter!" Basicly his outlook on life is, that everything will work out ok. (he has nothing but luck feats). Any suggestions for background?
trickydevl666 02-08-07, 07:24 PM	Maybe all his life he always believed that having a good attitude can effect the outcome of anything. If you always had a good clean, positive attitude then the odds will always come out in your favor. He may have grown up in a terrible situation (orphan?) and had to learn how to get through some tough parts of life on the streets, but his happy go lucky attitude helped him get through. His fortune changed when he came across a bard who for some reason another decided to take your character under his wing. Since then he has seen his fortune get better and better, and he believes that it was because his positive attitude. Now he wanders along, taking whatever life throws him, and always expecting the best out of everything.
Uberwoot 02-08-07, 09:55 PM	I can't help but imagining he had some sort of absolute disaster story of a life, a rollercoaster of extreme highs and abysmal lows, and he always finds it marvelous that somehow he's managed to survive. He loves the lows almost as much as he loves the highs. His optimism stems from his intimate familiarity with the worst bits of life, and how things always seem to get better. What comes to mind first: He was a wealthy merchant's son, and grew up having all the same instructors as all the nobles, but found himself easily distracted by beauty of form or substance; he spent more time having adventures in love than learning the "important" things, but still managed to pick up a great deal of trivial knowledge- and skill at wooing and manipulation. When his father died, he was paupered by his father's will, which gave the entire family fortune to the father's mistress (who had no particular affinity for the boy). Regardless of this enormous reversal of fortune, he viewed his ejection from high society as a serendipitous escape from the clutches of his old lovers and scrapes with rivals. Beyond that... I have a feeling that maybe he accidentally foiled a burglar and was rewarded by the shopkeeper whose valuables he returned, then used the money to start up a business, which failed miserably. I can't think of any other events right now, though. Seems fun. I've never played an optimist before.