One of our parties that we're running now is actually really awesome. The campaign is a post apocalyptic setting where magic isn't encouraged but can really be tweaked for whatever. (Adding in another character from a different campaign to make it 5)
1) Male - Chaotic Neutral - Human - Cleric (Undead Lord) - Tends to use his minions for combat, but has versatile channeling ready to heal the party if necessary. His history envolved a plague, to which he was strangely immune, taking all the lives of those who lived in the village as he attempted to find a cure.
2) Male - Lawful Neutral - Elf - Monk - Follows Irori. His history envolves his monastery having a mysterious intruder who broke all of his fellow monks of their resolve and self-perfection, slaughtering every one of them while he attempted to keep his own resolve. His goal in life is to now hunt down this man who killed all of those who were closest to him.
3) Female - Chaotic Good - Human - Summoner - Follows Desna. Her history involves many travels across the land. Her parents travelled a band of halflings to help honor their goddess. Eventually, however, age caught up with them, and they ended up settling down in a village while Harue (the summoner) continued her own travels.
I've personally played this character. Her eidolon, Mitsu, is one of the funnest parts of this. I built her to speak common and elven so she could communicate with the group, and she's effectively a medium sized fox (quadruped build) with seven tails, improved tail slap for attacks. With the way that the DM is working the leveling for her, she'll end up having five levels of Shadowdancer as well, but it's not required. :]
4) Male - True Neutral - Human - Magus - His history involves being on the guard of a town, hiding his magic from those around him (due to the town being afraid of magic), until the town was raided by a group of kobolds who happened to employ the use of a hill giant. In the fight, he was forced to use his magic, and was therefore exiled from the town.
5) Male - Chaotic Neutral - Tiefling - Rogue - His history involves being a part of a well-known family of tieflings who have their nose in everything from politics to magic. He decided to take the path to thievery, becoming a man-for-hire to steal and assassinate when in need.
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