LAST EDITED ON Jan-28-18 AT 06:47 PM (EST)
>And while I know you've got more than enough on your plate (writing
>and otherwise), now I can't help but wish there was more to read about
>Einar and his adventures. Well, you're right that I have a crapload of other things to do, but hey, I can't rule it entirely out. I mean, if nothing else, we do have a universe around here where Jack from Mass Effect 2 was the Dragonborn from Skyrim and Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender was the Courier from Fallout New Vegas.* In such a setting, it's not inconceivable for the likes of Einar Skinnarland to turn up. :) (I think I've mentioned in a couple of places that the Forgotten Realms exist in the UF universe; Einar's from a homebrew campaign, not Realms, but still.)
Gamewise, I would happily play Einar again under the right circumstances; hell, I've even designed a HeroForge mini for him, because why not.
(We didn't use minis in the game he was in, but still. If you've got the website, you might as well use it. :)
Oh yeah, one thing I forgot to mention in the original post is the way Einar started the campaign. When we were doing character generation, and I thought of the concept for the character, which explicitly depends on being multiclassed, Eric thought about it for a bit and came up with a way for him to start multiclassed, even though we were starting at level 1. He was like a level-½ barbarian / level-½ sorcerer for the first session, which made him even less effective than normal first-level characters, but was very amusing and enabled him to have his complete backstory in place when he first arrived.
In the same folder that had his last letter home and whatnot in it, I found a .txt-file transcription of his character sheet as I think it was at the beginning of the Grand Finale (probably it's a text file because Eric and I worked out his advancement to parity with the other PCs in email). At the start of the last adventure in the campaign, he was lvl 14 (barbarian 6 / sorcerer 8), with a pretty good selection of loot for that level of advancement and (unsurprisingly, given his line of work) a very combat-oriented spell list. Some of that gear was unique and could be adapted for other purposes, too.
--G.
* in hindsight, I should probably have done those two things the other way around.
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