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#1 Myztek Jun 08, 2011 14:14:51	I just started a 1st level barbarian dwarf with a gladiator theme for a DS game.  The game is beginning with an updating of the Freedom module from the introduction of DS decades ago which takes place in and around the events in the Verdant passage novel (set in Tyr).  I'm looking for suggestions for a major focus for a dwarf barbarian with no real social skills (Int 8, Wis/Chr 10, no skills based on 'mental' stats) that has spent the last few years in the slave pits. The trick: I wish to avoid a directly combat related focus.  I don't want the typical 'be the best fighter' type focus.  I also don't want to use becoming free as a focus, as I am pretty sure that will happen too soon.  I have a few ideas, but nothing that really excites me, so I thought I'd cast my line out in the waters of this forum and see if someone had a suggestion that I really liked...
#2 Gallard Jun 09, 2011 3:26:15	search for long lost ... hometown ? parents ? other relative ? gain freedom - for a purpose ... start a business ? travel to see the world ? learn XXXX ? then there's the more trite things ... make the world a better place, defeat evil, etc.
#3 Lord_Ventnor Jun 09, 2011 4:57:06	Alright, this idea is kind of combat focused, but still, I think it could work. Perhaps when he's not fighting, your Dwarf Gladiator shapes weapons out of the bones of creatures that he's slain in the arena/obsidian that they bring him from time to time/whatever he can get his hands on (a perk that the gladiator handlers let him have because the crowd loves him). His focus is to craft a weapon truly worthy of the skill at arms he possesses; even if he has all the talent in wielding a carrikal/tortoise blade/whatever, it is meaningless if the weapon he uses is also not crafted by him. Unfortunately, everything that he's made so far has broken under the weight of his might. But then again, if making a weapon worthy of his skills was easy, it would not be worthy of being called a focus.