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Because it's just Chuck Norris in a costume.
Creating characters does take a long time, but for some reason I love it. Me and one of the other players in my group finally had to take an oath "no more tinkering" before our last game. This was because we were both becoming obsessed with our characters every detail. Come to think of it, maybe I have a problem...
It wasn't me, but my GM's wife in a game. Usually she isn't the best player at the table (having to be reminded of some of her abilities etc.), but on this one occasion she was amazing. Our group of four is on top of a tower over 150 feet high and we're battling a sorceress boss. We had burned through a lot of our spells battling her minions and getting to the top of the tower, so when she takes flight mid battle we don't have any way to get her back to us. She's raining death on the party from above and we are feebly throwing what we can back in her direction. That's when Lilya (the GM's wife's character) decides to break out her grappling hook an rope, which just makes me face palm. She has no throwing skills and barely enough strength to throw the grappling hook high enough besides, but this doesn't deter her. She rolls to hook the sorceress and of course, natural 20. This is all well an good, she's hooked her, but now she has to make a strength check to actually try and pull her towards us. Keep in mind we are on top of the tower and the GM rules that failure by five or more will pull her off the tower. So she rolls... A second natural 20, and the sorceress lands right between the party barbarian and cleric, and is promptly pummeled to death before she can take flight again. Since then I've stopped recommending actions, because quite frankly I would have never even tried that and our group would have been robbed of this most epic moment.
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