My friend and I were brainstorming ways to make two Eladrin brothers as player characters to run together, and ways to have them be foils of each other. I would play a winter Eladrin, and he would play a summer Eladrin. We both want to ham up aspects that usually are associated with those seasons - cold vs warm, bleak vs passionate, etc. I made up three simple character ideas for the Winter Eladrin:
1) Monk, Way of the Long Death. He's a brilliant doctor/surgeon, putting his knowledge of biology to strike precisely in pressure points that he knows will cause damage. Cold, calculated, and intelligent. He will always be carrying a book with him that he references before striking down any foe that dares take the wrong tone with his brother.
2) Bard, College of Tragedy. He's had bad luck happen around him his whole life. At this point he's accepted it, and it's made him a darker/ less hopeful person. The thing is, though, when bad luck is happening all around you, sometimes that bad luck can happen to the right people. And sometimes he can influence that.
3) Monk, Way of the Ascendant Dragon (all cold damage). He's a brutal fighter that takes no pity and gives no remorse. Fights like a winter storm, and acts like it too. Less intelligent, but more vicious with a belief that all people are inherently shitty (besides his brother, of course).
My friend had great ideas to play off some of these. For the first, he could easily pick up a faith-based character to play against the science-minded one, or someone with strong emotions compared to the minimum emotion. For the second character, he mentioned picking up the Lucky feat as a way to play off my character's bad luck which I LOVED.
My question is this: what other cool dichotomy could we create with these two characters? Or more broadly, what are some cool ideas for foil characters in general? I love having PCs that know each other at the start of a game/campaign, so the more ideas the merrier.
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I know what you're thinking: "In that flurry of blows, did he use all his ki points, or save one?" Well, are ya feeling lucky, punk?
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My friend and I were brainstorming ways to make two Eladrin brothers as player characters to run together, and ways to have them be foils of each other. I would play a winter Eladrin, and he would play a summer Eladrin. We both want to ham up aspects that usually are associated with those seasons - cold vs warm, bleak vs passionate, etc. I made up three simple character ideas for the Winter Eladrin:
1) Monk, Way of the Long Death. He's a brilliant doctor/surgeon, putting his knowledge of biology to strike precisely in pressure points that he knows will cause damage. Cold, calculated, and intelligent. He will always be carrying a book with him that he references before striking down any foe that dares take the wrong tone with his brother.
2) Bard, College of Tragedy. He's had bad luck happen around him his whole life. At this point he's accepted it, and it's made him a darker/ less hopeful person. The thing is, though, when bad luck is happening all around you, sometimes that bad luck can happen to the right people. And sometimes he can influence that.
3) Monk, Way of the Ascendant Dragon (all cold damage). He's a brutal fighter that takes no pity and gives no remorse. Fights like a winter storm, and acts like it too. Less intelligent, but more vicious with a belief that all people are inherently shitty (besides his brother, of course).
My friend had great ideas to play off some of these. For the first, he could easily pick up a faith-based character to play against the science-minded one, or someone with strong emotions compared to the minimum emotion. For the second character, he mentioned picking up the Lucky feat as a way to play off my character's bad luck which I LOVED.
My question is this: what other cool dichotomy could we create with these two characters? Or more broadly, what are some cool ideas for foil characters in general? I love having PCs that know each other at the start of a game/campaign, so the more ideas the merrier.
I know what you're thinking: "In that flurry of blows, did he use all his ki points, or save one?" Well, are ya feeling lucky, punk?