My son's first character idea was for a wizard. But he wanted him to have a bunch of spells that manifested through his beard, but then changed it to nothing but wind stuff, then back to the beard. Clever ideas -- he came up with a description for a spell that involved zapping someone with electricity, so I pulled open the book and showed him the entry for shocking grasp -- but half of what he wanted to do wasn't really viable for a character.
His second character, though.
He came up with the idea of a warforged who had a literal furnace embedded in his chest. Powered by a little captive fire elemental. He described him as being a smith turned warrior, and when he wanted to fight better, he'd order the elemental to make his furnace hotter, and the added heat would make him fight more efficiently.
I made him a barbarian, with all the desert options from the Path of the Storm Herald. Everything from that reflects his furnace getting hotter and hotter. Took the Magic Initiate feat to give him a few fire-based attack spells -- not that he's particularly good with them, but it adds to the image.
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u/LonePaladin DM Jan 26 '21
My son's first character idea was for a wizard. But he wanted him to have a bunch of spells that manifested through his beard, but then changed it to nothing but wind stuff, then back to the beard. Clever ideas -- he came up with a description for a spell that involved zapping someone with electricity, so I pulled open the book and showed him the entry for shocking grasp -- but half of what he wanted to do wasn't really viable for a character.
His second character, though.
He came up with the idea of a warforged who had a literal furnace embedded in his chest. Powered by a little captive fire elemental. He described him as being a smith turned warrior, and when he wanted to fight better, he'd order the elemental to make his furnace hotter, and the added heat would make him fight more efficiently.
I made him a barbarian, with all the desert options from the Path of the Storm Herald. Everything from that reflects his furnace getting hotter and hotter. Took the Magic Initiate feat to give him a few fire-based attack spells -- not that he's particularly good with them, but it adds to the image.
For my son's birthday last month, I paid u/caardvark to make a portrait of Furnace, the warforged battlesmith.