From: educ@unixg.ubc.ca (Vicki Domansky)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: An NPC character (Was CHARACTERS WANTED)
Date: 30 Jul 92 04:58:19 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

In article <1992Jul29.192751@IASTATE.EDU> barkeep@IASTATE.EDU (Marlan B Hoffmann) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.042337.16748@athena.mit.edu>, cstudly@athena.mit.edu (Todd
>Sterling Anderson) writes:
>> I was wondering if anyone
>> out there has characters on their computer that they would be willing
>> to send me. It doesn't have to be in any particular format, and I would
>> love to have a character history if you have one.  Send one, send many,
>> send often.  It would be nice to have a larger pool of NPC's to choose
>> from.
>
>I was thinking of posting a very similar request!  I'm always looking for new
>NPC personalities.  I would also like copies of characters you may have.

Ok.  Here is a character I happen to have on disk.  She is actually an
_old_ character that I used in a campaign about 9 years ago (1st
edition obviously).  

BTW I think this trading of characters for NPCs is a good idea.  Using
a program to automatically generate characters is ok, but doesn't give
you a background or any personality.  

(HINT HINT to all you lovely programmer types - anyone want to put
together a random personality/history program? :-)

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Name:        Gladraele the Perfect
System:      1st edition AD&D
Race:        Half-elf
Gender:      female
Class:       Cleric/Mage/Thief
Levels:      5/4/6 (Perfect/Theurgist/Filcher)
Align:       CN (E)
Diety:       Tuoni (Finnish)
STR:         9
INT:         17
WIS:         16
DEX:         16
CON:         9
CHA:         11
COM:         15
AC:          1
Armour:      leather +1
HP:          30
Weapons:     mace +2, dagger +1, longsword
Languages:   common, elvish, gnome, halfling, goblin, hobgoblin, orcish,
             thieves cant
Magic:       +2 ring of protection

Mage Spells:
1st level:   read magic, nystal's magic aura, spider climb, burning
             hands, message, magic missile, find familiar, detect magic, 
2nd level:   knock, wizard lock, ray of enfeeblement, forget

Cleric Spells:
1st level:   sanctuary, cure light, cause light
2nd level:   mask alignment, know alignment, hold person
3rd level:   remove curse

Description: Gladraele is 36 years of age, although she appears much 
younger.  She has a short, feathery cap of reddish-gold hair and forest  
green eyes.  She is 5'6" tall and weighs about 110 pounds.  She wears a  
deep purple robe over her magical leather armour, with her silver holy  
symbol around  her neck.  Being rather a vain person, she enjoys using  
her clerical title "Perfect", because of course she is...

Gladraele grew up on the streets where she began her training in 
thieving skills.  A failed attempt at picking a cleric's pockets  led to 
her being admitted into the church of Tuoni (rather than other more 
"permanent" punishment).  Seizing her opportunities, Gladraele studied 
hard, hoping to put her humble beginnings behind her.  She became the 
"teacher's pet" of one of the cleric/mages of the church, who taught her 
something of the arcane studies.  Once she had  fulfilled her early 
studies, she was released into the field to travel the land and practice 
the teachings of Tuoni.

Gladraele eventually meets up with other travellers and a party of 
adventurers is formed.  This co-existence provides Gladraele with a 
sense of security and protection, as well as opportunities to practice 
her various "skills".  She has adapted rather well to the life as an 
adventurer, enjoying her share of any treasure immensely, and is prone 
to spending great amounts of money when the group is in town.  

As a devoted worshipper of Tuoni, Gladraele uses her powers and skills  
to aid others on their way to dwell with that greatest of gods.   
Unfortunately, others do not always agree with the ways of Tuoni and  
would interfere, so Gladraele is sometimes forced to deceive others in  
order to continue her duties.  If someone is injured and, in Gladraele's  
opinion, is ready to move onto the next life, she will pretend to cure  
them but instead will use cause light wounds to end their misery.  
Gladraele will only do this when she is sure she will not be discovered  
(i.e. not under direct observation by others).  She may even cure  
someone if she deems it would of benefit to her own purposes.  

Her companions, Fiana, Erica, Mark and Gwen, were totally unaware of the  
reason Gladraele often failed in her first aid attempts.  They thought  
she was rather inept, which galled her somewhat.  They eventually 
discovered her secret, though, when the group discovered several babies 
who were being used as a food source for a vampire.  The babies had been 
neglected and were in poor health... the party was aghast when they 
realized that Gladraele had not only _not_ failed in her attempts to 
help the babies, but had instead helped them to die.  Needless to say  
the party never asked her to cure them again... (heh, heh) 
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Vicki Domansky <Morgaine>                               educ@unixg.ubc.ca
Education Computing Services                       v_domansky@mtsg.ubc.ca
U of B.C. Vancouver Canada                        usereduc@ubcmtsg.bitnet
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