I spent a couple of hours waiting for my car at the shop this morning. Being unable to play Fallout: New Vegas for that long I got a sketch done for my broken Executioner/Warlock Hybrid. I also did a Revenant Blackguard/Executioner which did more damage but after all the eminently more broken charging Pixie Thieves I've killed recently, I decided to go with a race the DM could not "accidentally" coup de grace because they were still standing while below 0 hp. Besides, the Dwarf has more personality.

We had been patiently waiting for D&D Essentials Hybrids to give us a way to break the rule that striker hybrids only got striker damage on striker class powers and Executioner did that for us. Now all the classes with melee basic at will powers can use them in conjunction with the Executioner bonus damage for single handed weapon attacks. Since I have tons of Paladin Hybrids and a lot of Blackguard ones recently I opted for Warlock and that gives me a lot more ranged options though I can't stack free action bonus damage encounter powers the way I could with Blackguard. Fresh out of character gen this character was putting out a brutal 2 1d10+1d8+1d6+7 on melee basic attacks, or roughly 22.5 damage on average per hit where the typical brand new striker gets 1d10+1d6+4 or an average of 13 damage per hit with such powers.

For her personality I kept thinking back to playing Dragon Age Origins as a Casteless Dwarf working for the Carta. I liked the idea of a classless outcast Dwarf who spends money like it will evaporate with dawn and brutalizes people for a living. I also decided that as a relatively low Charisma character she would be fun to have as my horny female character (my horny male character is an insanely high Charisma half-elf bard who talks like Ricardo Montalban). As a Dwarf she has a nice rack and she's not bad looking though she's a bit plain, has manly shoulders, and a big nose. Where my Warlord, Pip, just uses inuendo, Katka will straight-up proposition NPCs (i.e. "Nice boots, let's f**k."). It tends to make for interesting (and sometimes awkward) table talk when the brutish PC looking to get lucky is a less than entirely attractive female rather than the typical low charisma barbaric male PC. I think I might try an Intimidate check to get the character laid just to see the look on people's faces. Other people have high Charisma slutty female characters but those are played as the butt of jokes. A low Charisma high Intimidate aggressive slutty female character would turn the tables on the rest of the party and force the fighter to question his decision to go commando. If you've read about most of my other characters you will notice that I love to twist common archetypes to feel superior to other players at the table. Horny tomboy the rest of the group does NOT want to have relations with has turned out to be a rather amusing twist so far.

I'm more or less happy with the character design (especially the Dwarf Ancestor face on her Craghammer) and characterization but not with the name. I was originally going to name the character Agrafina Svetlova (so that everybody who who has read Brothers Karamazov will groan) but while I wanted to give all my Dwarves Russian names to make them different from the typical Scottish and Norse Dwarves, I can't do any more character voices in Russian accents. I'm thinking of going with an underclass Boston or Bronx accent but then I'd really need to change the name. I thought with Katka, I could morph it into Kat, Kitty, Tabby Kat or something later.