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[athelind]

I want to play a Bard whose main performance skill is Ventriloquism.

And I want to give his dummy its own personality.

And possibly its own character class.

What can I say? I was a Soap fan. I loved Chuck and Bob.

This could work in one of two ways. The Ventriloquist would be the Bard, and the Dummy would be, say, a Wizard... Or maybe the Ventriloquist would be a big, burly fighter type who only talks (and uses his Bardic abilities) through his dummy.

Comments

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

**Laughs!!**

Oh, I'd love to see that. I'd like to see the dummy demanding that people talk to IT, not the person who's holding him up.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

This sounds hilarious. Would the dummy be the one wielding the sword or other weapon, as well?

[athelind.livejournal.com]

No, certainly not. At best, a dagger, though I'm not going to try to convince any DM that a hand with a wooden dummy in it can make an attack without horrible egregious penalties. That's why at least one class is going to be a spellcaster.

[bfdragon.livejournal.com]

I wonder then. If he were good enough at throwing his voice, could the dummy be casting spells with only verbal components? Could be swinging his sword at a kobald, while the dummy, sitting off to the side, casting blindness on an ogre? }:->

- Talos

[rooth.livejournal.com]

Make the dummy a gnome or a halfling bard/wizard, who had a familiar that got caught in the magical crossfire of a highlevel battle, and got banefully polymorphed into a human. The gnome tells his familiar-human to carry him around like a pretend-dummy. The human never talks, much like Teller, because the PC does not yet have enough levels in wizard.

Throw in some Prestidigitation cantrips, and an occasional Unseen Servant, and you have yourself the ingredients for a lot of fun roleplaying. :)

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

wau.

that is so freakily coincidental.

I've just watched the first 10 episodes of Soap for the first time since they aired here in the late 70s.

I had completely forgotten Chuck and Bob. (or, as Bob preferred it, Bob and Chuck).

I had a lot of good laughs at it, and am now anxiously waiting the second dvd's arrival.

and now I think even more, my life is a soap opera.
;-)