So, before people ask things like, "Are you planning on DMing a RotR campaign?" or "This doesn't sound like a recruitment post subject..." let me start off by saying two things:
- I have no experience whatsoever with DMing and only a bare minimum of exp actually even playing.
- I am hoping that this will get an interested DM scanning the recruitment forums to say, "That sounds like a cool character concept, maybe I should start up a RotR game and invite this guy," or something to that effect.
So, my general concept is for a fighter who was cast forward in time by his goddess. I don't have the story of RoRL at hand, but between reading the downloadable player's guide and a little wikipedia research I attempted to tailor it to the world. I am placing it in a spoiler because I really don't know if it would spoil story elements of the campaign or not.
Further details:
My fighter would be a native of the Thassilon Empire at the time of the final days of Emperor Xia's life. A devout follower of Lissala, he would have been saved by the goddess from the sacking of his town in the Bakrakhan provence after the Emperor's death and the Runelords' rise to power. She sends him far into the future, to preserve the faith and to ensure that the evils brought about by the perversion of her religion stay buried. He emerges from the her realm in 6 years prior to the campaign start in a caravan of Vasirian merchants, where he learns sculpting, Vasirian, and common. He tries to settle down in Korvosa about a year prior to campaign start, but has to leave about a month prior to start due to conflict with the demon worshipping Chelaxian nobles. He is fleeing to Sandpoint to escape their wrath... and to try to finally settle down peacefully.
I would be playing him as a two-weapon wielding archtype as covered by the APG, wielding a Double Walking Stick Katana (which he normally keeps hidden in plain sight as a staff... even wielding it as such when he doesn't wish to seriously harm his opponents) and wearing medium Kikko armor into battle (though he typically does not wear it unless expecting trouble).
I hope this has caught someone's interest. Now for a few bits of info about the player:
Thank you for reading this. Please comment if you are thinking of trying to DM a group, or if you have comments that might improve the character a bit.