Recent content by ConquerorWorm

The answer is obvious. Find a way to bring her back to life... then kill her again! And do it right this time! Find a "no backsies" type of killing.

I know that I read of a real medieval myth where you would burn animal bones to scare away dragons. They can't stand the smoke. This is, occording to this particular text at least, where the word bonfire originates (bone fire). By that logic you could use the smoke from burning bones to push the...

I like this. If you wanted to make it more of a full system you could bring all types of magic into something like this. For example, obviously, I don't know anything about your world, like if there are magical creatures in it, but if there are then all magic could be derrived from these...

Well, since you said it's for D&D, I think that's very different from if you're writing a story. I don't know if you're GM:ing or playing, which also makes a huge difference. If you're the GM: Remeber, first of all, you are not making a main character, but rather one to either support or...

THIS It seems to me that what you're describing is maybe closer to a characterization than a theme? Showing the father as a self sacrificing person. Of course, this can tie in to a theme of self sacrifice as well, so I'm certainly not saying that isn't or shouldn't be your theme. However, to me...

It seems to me that rather than lame you seem interested in giving your character a power that is, or at least appears to be, underpowered in comparison to the other characters. None of the examples you give, at least in my opinion, are lame. Of course they could be given a silly or lame twist...