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From: hogge@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: What makes a character fun to play?
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 02:27:00 EST
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU!hogge    Nov 16 01:27:00 1985


One of my weirder characters, back when we were experimenting with
home-brewed D&D character classes, was "Vile Fleshrender, Eater of Hearts",
a human shape-changer (Changeling).  His basic thrill was to gut out
and eat whole, uncooked, the heart of any opponent he killed single-handedly.
He never reached high-level, so he never had the dilema of dealing with, say,
an Ogre's heart.  And of course, the bad-assed cleric in the party 
eventually got on his case.

Incidentally, the Changeling was fun to run.  The class's basic occupation
is the capture of creatures for purposes of physiological examination (shape
learning).  Overall, the rest of the party was not real supportive...