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Hey, many a story has, if not needs, useless stuff. That's how you make it a story. I like the mysterious agency out to get him. The backstory is already better. Perhaps in the RP you're playing you could have some sort of flashback; in which you try explaining either how he saved the orphans, or how his training went, or how the paladins gifted him with this light ability. It'd be good practice, and help your character seem more important to you, and the other RPers.

If he actually is a paladin , than he needs to be played as lawful good (at least in every RP I've ever seen). It would be better if he didn't really accept either side, but was good enough that the paladins granted him some of their powers. Lawful good, means, he's compelled by a code to smite evil in all it's forms. At higher levels, this means even going after neutral things, because they aren't fighting against bad with their abilities (and are thus supporting evil). But this isn't Dungeons and Dragons.

The invisible woman can bend light to suit her needs. She goes invisible by bending light around her, and can put up shields by bending light's energy around things. Just being able to produce light isn't too damaging, unless it has the intensity of cutting lasers. But the healing light is pretty cool sounding. Plus that sort of lighting up a sword, would make it easier to navigate dark caves, and such. He'll never need a torch.

But as always, my advice is only advice, so you don't have to follow it. Running a character your way is part of the point of RPing.

Ahh...the Lawful Good D&D paladin. I love the conundrum presented with an illustration in the Book of Exalted Deeds.

Wherein, a paladin comes across a pair of devils entwined in the act of love, and she must make the hard choice of her Paladin code between destroying evil and honoring and protecting love.

I think evil trumps over love, in that situation. But yeah, if WoW has something besides lawful good, that would be good. But we should get back to character reviews.

Ten had a character idea to run by you...He had an idea for strangely, a vampire.

I wanted to make a clan of Vampires that controlled electrical powers and eventually the ability to conjure thunderstorms. My character specifically would want this final storm calling ability, to eventually develop it as he was played.

I imagined the Vampires being able to absorb electricity out of any exposed electrical current they touch...power lines, batteries, etc. or leech it the bio-electricity from anyone who's life their extinguish while feeding.

I specifically had the idea that my character in particular would have the powers of vertical ascension (anyone who's seen a vampire crawl up a wall in defiance of gravity has seen this power), a mist form (to elude danger or fast travel), a form of flash step (Similar to a blink spell, allowing the player to do a quick extremely short ranged teleport once every 3-5 posts, but the the variant begin that the spell leaves a discharge of electricity behind), and his ability to control electricity and use it in a variety of ways.

These in addition to his basic vampiric traits...Though I am thinking that, since he is more of an energy projection sort of character like a mage, that he would be left without any form of enhanced vampiric strength or speed (Hence why he has the flash step for get out of the way fast). So merely he would have the boons and weaknesses of being undead, as well as the weaknesses of being a vampire.

I worked on the mechanics behind his electrical control powers last night, I am thinking it will be limited by require both hands to use it. His dominant hand would function as the source for the electricity, firing it at the other hand to be channeled away from the body. The electricity's direction and force is then controlled by movements of both hands, with the right hand's movements determining strength of the electrical bolt and the left hand's movements controlling how the electricity moves or behaves. If a weapon is placed into the left hand or both, then you can charge it with the current provided it is a conductor.

But the obvious glaring weakness here, is his hands. Take out the right one, he has only his mist form and blink step to fight with, take out the left hand, and the electricity has to be released in wild, uncontrollable bursts which I'd start rolling dice for to see if it injures him, bystanders, his opponent, or just jolts off into the wild blue yonder.

Anyway, what do you think? I've heard everything from it being an awesome idea. To people saying it would never work, because it's not 'totemic' enough for a vampire.

Totemic was just his fancy way of saying... I like the tradition "I just suck blood and not much else" Vampire. He was saying that he didn't like the idea because it deviated in a way his mind couldn't fathom. He could imagine no logical way for a vampire to acquire lightning powers. sweatdrop

Sorry, I unforunately don't know how I can help you with that one. Maybe someone else around here can give you an idea. Ten Tails' idea is pretty good, but you'd obviously need his permission. And I wouldn't run him as a vampire though. But I don't know what else to say. Sorry.

I'm pretty sure we're stuck in western, but element wasn't entirely fixed to species. I think I'll just try to prod the captain for clarity. (Though that hasn't worked out too well in the past...)