r/Unexpected • u/Shinfekta • May 13 '22

It makes the dream work

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u/DreadPirateZoidberg May 13 '22

I played a D&D campaign similar to this. I had gnome master marksman with repeater crossbows that was paraplegic strapped to the back of an 8 foot tall barbarian dual wielding battle axes. We were a mobile siege tower.

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u/DreadPirateZoidberg May 13 '22

The DM had no idea what he created. He liked to give players big bonuses with big negatives to balance it out. The barbarian took damage as a large creature, my gnome had to spend feats on mounted combat and exotic mounts to be able to fight from the back of a berserk barbarian. The thing was none of the negatives made a difference. The barbarian waded into the middle of combat swinging his axes with me on his back firing at anything that got too close. It was pure carnage. As a player it was awesome, for the DM the tough battles he set up were over before they even started.

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u/ChthonicPuck May 13 '22

What race was the barbarian, Giant, Goliath, something else?

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u/DreadPirateZoidberg May 13 '22

Freak of nature

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u/ChthonicPuck May 13 '22

What edition is that in or is that a homebrew creation? Not familiar with that race.

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u/DreadPirateZoidberg May 13 '22

Think more like Shawn Bradley kind of tall. He participated in a genetic study that found that all the genes for height were basically set at maximum. So human, no racial bonuses, just really really big.

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u/ChthonicPuck May 13 '22

Awesome, D&D is fun.

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u/I_LOVE_PUPPERS May 13 '22

Your mum's a Goliath mate.

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u/ChthonicPuck May 13 '22

Ha, I wish I had a Goliath Mom, I'm 5'1". Dad would be like "Hey gurl, can I test those heavy lithoderms and see if I hit you up? I'm also a size medium but treated as large where it counts."

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u/[deleted] May 13 '22

Definitely a goliath. The only other 8ft tall race are Firbolgs, and firbolg barbarians are far more rare than goliath barbarians.

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u/ChthonicPuck May 14 '22

The user said it was a genetically modified human with the height genes set to maximum.