| Elodie Hiras |
Hello all!
So I've been thinking about creating a lawful good knife master rogue (just because let's be fair, no one plays LG rogues), former soldier (specialized in recon and sabotage Sir/Ma'am!), and always pretty hyper and cheerful (because no one I've ever seen plays LG characters as easily excited and cheerful, picture Athena Cykes from Dual Destinies in most of her moments if you want an idea of what I mean by hyper and cheerful), so I wanted to fluff the feint (bluff checks to make lose an enemy his Dex bonus to AC for a round) in a way that plays the hyper aspect, as she would be like a hamster on coffee.
So far I've had a few ideas:
Kick the weapon arm to turn the enemy around then stab his back.
Kick the leg to unbalance the enemy and follow with a quick stab.
A quick knee to the groin to disorient the foe, followed by a quick stab.
A front flip forward and stabbing the femoral artery as she has one hand on the floor.
A back flip as if she was retreating followed by a quick lunge forward.
Anyone has other ideas?
| Cel'Daren |
Fidgeting.
Your character is so hyper that she can't even decide on what kind of strike she is going to go for until she's halfway through her attack! She sees the opening on the left, right, above, and behind, and decides to strike at all of them at the same time, in the same thrust! Her feints aren't the sinuous grace of a striking viper, but the jerky twitching movements of a haywire clockwork death machine! Basically it isn't that she's trying to deceive her opponent, it's just she's so caught up in the fight that she can't decide what to do, and the opponent gets to try and realize it's best just to stay a big step back from the transmuted squirrel lady.
For added fluff, any experienced blade combatant should look at your rogue with a kind of fascinated horror of seeing everything they knew about fighting rolled up into a ball and then thrown on the midden heap. The ever snarky combat pragmatist should be ready with a quip about despite the apparent insanity of the moves, it does seem to work, much to the sadness of the experienced blade combatant.
For even more funsies, have your character completely unaware of what she's doing, and when asked how she did that have her start on a tirade of all the places she was trying to attack at the same time. LIST THEM ALL.
I dunno how long you might run with this, but I bet it'll get at least a few laughs at the table before it gets old :D