Reply With QuoteI haven't read the series by Orson Scott Card, so I don't know much about the character. But, I'll help out however I can.
What edition are you playing?
Hi there, this will be my first time playing D&D and I am very excited. I very much want to make a character based of of my favorite book character Ender Wiggin, lol note my username. Having read the books many times, I have a good idea how I want to make the character, but I am interested in knowing if anyone else has any thoughts. Thanks very much.
I haven't read the series by Orson Scott Card, so I don't know much about the character. But, I'll help out however I can.
What edition are you playing?
We will be using the core rulebook version 3.5
Ender from Enders Game, or Ender from Speaker for the Dead? He changes a lot throughout the series.Originally Posted by EnderWiggin
Hi there, this will be my first time playing D&D and I am very excited. I very much want to make a character based of of my favorite book character Ender Wiggin, lol note my username
Yeah there is quite a difference, but I would say from The Speaker of the Dead. He maintains his intelligence and charisma, but picks up that weight from killing the buggers. I'm not sure how that flaw would play in D&D though. But that is really what I want, I want the damaged person that he becomes. However I would like him to be as he was when he first got to Lusitania and not how he ends up in children of the mind. More vital, you know?
Speaker of the Dead Ender would probably be Druid or Bard, with favored stats being Wisdom and Charisma.
How about making an original character
No such thing.
Yes it would be quite easy to make a "more" original character, but my intent was to make a character I thoroughly knew, so as to be able to play it consistently. If I just make up a character, I could fall short on goals or how he should react to things. But yes, it is difficult to separate the way you would handle a situation and how the character would, unless your character is you who somehow got thrown into the D&D world. I wanted to be someone else with their own clearly set internal rules for things. You know, have it become a truly role playing experience. For those of you who have read the series, haven't you ever wanted to be like Ender?
Ender Wiggin was the 'third' and therefor 'lawful runt' of the family, although by no means a weakling for a person his age, the fact of the matter was that his older siblings, and classmates twice his age would pick fights with him on a regular basis.
At some point, in a schoolyard, he flipping snapped. Well... snapping didn't quite happen... more like a pre-emptive decapitation in accordance with the NUTS nuclear-warfare doctrine (rather than a mutually-assured destruction by blowing-up the school or going on a shooting-spree).
Well, craziness of the times meant apparently that adults were either dumb as boxes of rocks, or that space-travel doesn't treat fully-developed indivicuals very kindly... so some guys decide to let him into a killer's club of sorts, where they pretty much pit him in a hazing-match against other pledges and then start stacking the deck even further against him.
Sure, he makes a few friends, but all they can do is help put him back together after he finishes literally mopping the floor with his simulated (and a tad over-eager) foes.
Only then do they trust him for the big mission... pretty much a suicide-run for inter-galatcic genocide... while having no clue he's doing it...
Speaker of the Dead picks-up where a guilt-ridden Ender has pretty much wandered around ground-zero of his handywork and finds a survivor.
That's the tl;dr of Ender Wiggin's life. He's got two even more awesome siblings, and his firends from battle-school were pretty epic too.
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I've taken Ender as a deconstruction of what a hero is. In particular for those who idolize the men who dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, and the ones who helped.
The Queen's apology is kinda wierd, though. I think I'll stick with Heinlein's version of how the bugs vs apes war came to be an 'us or them' sort of war.
Nevertheless, let's assume that the human race manages to balance birth and death, just right to fit its own planets, and thereby becomes peaceful. What happens?
Soon (about next Wednesday) the Bugs move in, kill off this breed which "ain'ta gonna study war no more" and the universe forgets us. Which still may happen. Either we spread and wipe out the Bugs, or they spread and wipe us out - because both races are tough and smart and want the same real estate.
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