So much so I named one of my favorite D&D characters after him. Although this Marcus had roughly 3x the Wisdom score of mine*.
*Not a typo. I was trying to roll up a Paladin, and then I got a Wisdom of 5. So I just went with it. We decided that whatever I said, my character would do**. I suspect that it was expected that I would thus rein in my tendency to go gonzHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA yeah, that was never going to happen. But we had fun.
**This was the campaign where we made my character’s squire – who was being controlled by the DM – party leader. Because, really, it was the only sane thing to do.
If you’ve never played a cleric with a chance of spell failure, you’ve never played 1st or 2nd edition AD&D.
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Incompetent, but idealistic, devout, and enthusiastic is a good basis for stories. Funny how these characters survived when min-maxed munchkins didn’t.
To clarify the joke for the young’uns, you used to roll straight 3d6 in order to get your stats. And I do mean in order, as you went down the list in order as you made your rolls.
The one class without stat prerequisites was cleric. But if your wisdom was low, you had a chance of spell failure, and were barred from higher level spells.
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Now, significantly more forgiving character generation house rules were extremely common so that we didn’t wind up with a bunch of zealous incompetents arguing about which of their gods was better as they bumbled along.
But sometimes, we played it straight. And had a great deal of fun doing so.
Marcus Cole is the kind of man we should all aspire to be like.
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Also, I finally got back into this account. Huzzah!
Obviously I missed a good show, what is it so I can catch up?
Babylon Five, Season 3, Episode 13, “A Late Delivery From Avalon.” Bab5 is a pretentious, bombastic, and top-heavy-epic of a show that everybody loves anyway because when it’s not that (and often when it is) it was hysterically, intelligently funny. Walter Koenig went on that show to demonstrate to the cosmos that yes, he was capable of more than being a certain Russian space cadet; and by *God* but he succeeded.
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Thanks! Remember watching the first couple episodes when it came out but then get too busy to keep up. Always meant to go back and watch it again, need to rectify this gap in my sci-Fi education
Also, Harlan Ellison was a consultant and appeared in at least one episode.
As the voice of the station computer when they needed to reboot it for certain security purposes. Strazynski asked him to play the role because he needed someone who could be incredibly annoying with every word he said.
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It took Strazynski a bit to figure out why Ellison was unhappy to hear that.
B5, television from a better, vanished time.
And I rolled a made with 8 wisdom once. I had him roll will saves whenever his significant other made suggestions, which given that she was equally deficient, were always bad.
Good times.
Reminds me of a 2nd edition barbarian I rolled up one day: Str 18/00, Con 17, Dex 16, but Cha 9, Wis 6, Int 4. He was a lot of fun to play– thankfully we never ran into any enemy that used mental attacks.