Gaming
Just for fun, I am going to pose the following questionaire and to be fair, answer it myself first. It concerns the D&D D20 system and related works.
1) Who is your favorite D&D NPC and why?
Ravel Puzzlewell from Planescape Torment. Epic power mixed with total lunacy and she makes night hags interesting. Beyond that, you even feel sorry for the chaotic evil monster by the end.
2) Who is your favorite D&D villain and why?
The player characters. I have seen players do the most brutal things in the name of adventure. Even common villains have stronger motivations for wholesale killing and high level characters have destroyed whole towns. As to why they are my favorite, well, they are run by the players, which makes them the most eclectic, creative group in any given game world.
3) What is your favorite base class and why?
Fighter. There is no problem that more axes can't solve. It just may take a LOT more axes.
4) What is your least favorite base class and why?
Sorceror. The Warlock class is everything it should have been and more. And before the Warlock, the Wizard was nearly everything it is and more.
5) What is your favorite prestige class and why?
Mystic Theurge. Arcane and divine go together better than chocolate and peanut butter.
6) What is your least favorite prestige class and why?
There are a lot of useless prestige classes, but dislike-inspiring? Pretty much anything necromacy or demon-related that is pre-Book of Vile Darkness or Libris Mortis. I'm all for upholding the Comic Code, not provoking Congressional Hearings and all that, but evil should be roughly as powerful as good at least from the player perspective. Evil is dangerous and worthy of an epic fight because it might actually win.
7) What is your favorite monster and why?
Nimblewight. I dig constructs and a reasonably-priced, intelligent infiltrator with SR and solid spell-like abilities just rocks.
8) What is your favorite artifact and why?
The Deck of Many Things. It's best when used to play bridge.
9) What is your favorite encounter and why?
A dark forest in the dead of night. A lone traveler is stuck trying to get home on foot when a carriage pulls up. The driver is a blonde-haired child and the passenger is a clearly-wealthy man of middle years with black hair. The passenger offers the traveler a boon and the traveler accepts. Once the carriage leaves, the traveler realizes that he is now damned. I first saw this sequence in a movie based on the Book of Blood and got to use it in the CV game. And hence, the Finger of the Damacine Golem was born.
10) Pie?
Blueberry
1) Who is your favorite D&D NPC and why?
Ravel Puzzlewell from Planescape Torment. Epic power mixed with total lunacy and she makes night hags interesting. Beyond that, you even feel sorry for the chaotic evil monster by the end.
2) Who is your favorite D&D villain and why?
The player characters. I have seen players do the most brutal things in the name of adventure. Even common villains have stronger motivations for wholesale killing and high level characters have destroyed whole towns. As to why they are my favorite, well, they are run by the players, which makes them the most eclectic, creative group in any given game world.
3) What is your favorite base class and why?
Fighter. There is no problem that more axes can't solve. It just may take a LOT more axes.
4) What is your least favorite base class and why?
Sorceror. The Warlock class is everything it should have been and more. And before the Warlock, the Wizard was nearly everything it is and more.
5) What is your favorite prestige class and why?
Mystic Theurge. Arcane and divine go together better than chocolate and peanut butter.
6) What is your least favorite prestige class and why?
There are a lot of useless prestige classes, but dislike-inspiring? Pretty much anything necromacy or demon-related that is pre-Book of Vile Darkness or Libris Mortis. I'm all for upholding the Comic Code, not provoking Congressional Hearings and all that, but evil should be roughly as powerful as good at least from the player perspective. Evil is dangerous and worthy of an epic fight because it might actually win.
7) What is your favorite monster and why?
Nimblewight. I dig constructs and a reasonably-priced, intelligent infiltrator with SR and solid spell-like abilities just rocks.
8) What is your favorite artifact and why?
The Deck of Many Things. It's best when used to play bridge.
9) What is your favorite encounter and why?
A dark forest in the dead of night. A lone traveler is stuck trying to get home on foot when a carriage pulls up. The driver is a blonde-haired child and the passenger is a clearly-wealthy man of middle years with black hair. The passenger offers the traveler a boon and the traveler accepts. Once the carriage leaves, the traveler realizes that he is now damned. I first saw this sequence in a movie based on the Book of Blood and got to use it in the CV game. And hence, the Finger of the Damacine Golem was born.
10) Pie?
Blueberry