Never-Ending Character

[magispitt]

Some of you might be familiar with me as I have a player who is fond of custom character content, and is constantly updating their character. The latest rendition is a lizardfolk investigator that specializes in combat maneuvers. Today's episode of the 'Never-Ending Character' is threefold

Traits:

First one is easy, do I allow a second drawback for a fourth trait?

Weapons:

These are weapon rules he wants to put in. He also wants something to do with 'hooks' where every hit drags an opponent around a little, sort of like a lasso but with spikes.

Blood Vial:

The final question has to do with a custom item - a vial of blood. Basically he wants a vial that he fills up, taking one drop from the blood of each of his fallen enemies. When it fills up, he wants something like immortality, massive stat bonuses, or something else. He'll tell me more about what he wants to do with the vial later and I'll relay that to you unless he drops the idea again.

I will be providing updates as he changes his mind, so ask yourself - are you ready?
(though even if you're not I'd still appreciate help) - Thoughts?

[kestral287]

Traits: If you do it for him do it for everybody. Not game breaking though.

Weapons: well the introduction of that concept made me both twitch and laugh for how blatantly wrong it is, but beyond that...

The system is very poorly explained and exceedingly poorly balanced. It fails in its basic objective and is complicated for no real gain. Shut that one down.

Special Item: I wouldn't give him anything unless he explains exactly what he wants up front and writes it up. And if you do allow it, the rest of the party needs to get something comparable.

[magispitt]

Alright, thanks. I'll do the traits and veto the other stuff. Rather than making a new thread for every custom thing he asks for I might just use this one.

Edit: He's requested having two coins, one has tails on both sides and is a silver coin, the other has heads on both sides and is gold. What do you guys think of this?

[Goth Guru]

I was going to say a vial of any blood and a ritual could turn you into a vampire. After researching it, he finds the ritual and then all kinds of necromancers will come looking for the ritual.

The two coins could be found on the body of a swindler. That's who would have something like that. Also someone who custom forges coins is called a coiner. Coining was a capital offense back in medieval times.