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Let's say that I, as a slumming god-on-leave, was to grant you the ability to start a novice character in an appropriate profession in a universe upon which any given fantasy CRPG was based. (Oh, you didn't know that CRPGs are actually brought to mind from other dimensions, where they already exist? Well, forget I said anything about it.) Which game envirionment and what profession would you choose? A novice sorcerer in BG2? A samurai in Wizardry 8?

An adventurous young fighter in Faerun..

A retired Hobbit fighter/thief blowing concentric silver smoke rings at the Prancing Pony while enjoying several "1420" mugs of beer!

(Or a lawful evil bard who seduces Arwen from that wimp Aragorn)

And here is a man too into the novels...

A Half-Elven Bard living with her girlfriend(a Half-Elven Fighter/Mage) in either Easthaven, Waterdeep, or Silverymoon; not that they spend all their time at home.

A increadibly rich young man in this world

[ 12-16-2001: Message edited by: Xandax ]

Morlock,(half elven Mage lvl. 42) of course, needs no introduction for this legendery mage, who could beat the best fighter with his renowned home made spell "slayer of everything",who could contorol an army of illthids minds, who could slay dragons with his sling (The deathseeker +9)- which is, of course,home made, the savior of Waterdeep,the destroyer of the zhentarum, the eradicater of demons, the slayer of Lolth,the controller of Crenshinibon, the.....
He currently resides in his Crystal tower
in Waterdeep, claiming the title of King of the world.

Ahem, um, sorta got ahead of myself here.
What I meant to say was:

Morlock, the Egotistic and charming young mage from Luskan, currently waiting tables and on the side he is looking into being the most powerful mage that ever lived.

Dark Overlord of the Entire Galactic Multiverse.

That's *Mr* Gruntboy to you.

Honestly, I would have wanted to be a samurai who would begin his training in bushido under the guidance of the greatest samurai ever --- the Samurai Saint.

[ 12-17-2001: Message edited by: Maharlika ]

I think i would want to be a tinker

Necromancer in Faerun

If I had to pick an RPG world, I would like to be a wizard from the Forgotten Realms.

If I could be any sci-fi character, I would like to be Lazarus Long or some other character from the World-as-Myth books.

Hey! No level 42 anythings, no rich young anythings. You start as a typical novice of your choice of profession appropriate to that world. Them's the rules for stating what you'd be.

Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>Hey! No level 42 anythings, no rich young anythings. You start as a typical novice of your choice of profession appropriate to that world. Them's the rules for stating what you'd be. </STRONG>

Grease one's way up the old boy network, eh?

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>Grease one's way up the old boy network, eh? </STRONG>

No old boys, old gals, old mages, old paladins, old thieves, or old crones.

Old fahrts like myself--maybe.

[ 12-17-2001: Message edited by: fable ]

I would be a Human Fighter living in Luskan, ready for trips into the Spine of the World mountains and treasure! With Boots of Speed to run away if things got too dangerous!

@Fable- What I said would be the ideal, but as a novice, I guess a mage (almost) anywhere.With preference that that life includes Entreri,Lavalle (As I've said numerous times before,I'm a huge Salvatore fan)or the shadow theives- I love Assasins.

A rogue harper(elven Bard) living it up with Jaheira.

Or

A sadistic Zentium(sp) Drow fighting over Viconia with edwin in amn.

I would have trouble choosing the world...but as I'm playing a lot of BG2, I choose somewhere in Faerun...

Now it'd be a tough call between 'low level Water spirit who does nothing but float happily in water' or 'low level elvin fighter/thief'.

I'm thinking the fighter/thief, I can see it now. She stumbles into the city from her farmland home for the first time, her eyes widening at the wealth all around her. A desire for that wealth to be on her own person instead of on fat old merchants sweeps over her, and she begins to work on stealth and pickpocketing. She happily wanders around in and out of invisibility robbing everything in site.
It works well for several days until she realizes that she's getting a lot of gaudy jewelry and not so much of anything else. Following a mark home, she tries to enter his home to get even more loot, but alas, those darn locks! Time for more practice!

(I'll leave off before we get to her disasterous meeting with a cranky mage in a tower, though her singed ego and behind do lead her to invest in 'detect traps'.)

I'd be a mage, and ummm, I'm not really familiar with any worlds aside from the Forgotten Realms and Middle Earth - and anyway, aren't they basically the same place?