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Originally posted by T-D-C:
I say if you can justify it from a RP perspective then its all good
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Only if you do it before/during the fact. If you do it after the character is built and has been played extensively, you're just reverse engineering/backward justifying your character's munchkinism with a contrived 'history'.
I've looked at those builds myself, and they are obviously pure munchkin. Now, having said that, I'll add that I did start a character that was straight out of those builds, but I only played him for a few hours and got pretty bored. The characters are so one dimensional that they are non-fun. And, considering that the whole point of most of them is to make hard core PvP killers...well, it's no wonder Godisnak lost.
There's nothing wrong with looking at those builds and using them to influence you...I have...Bronwyn, my main character, is based on the Dwarven Wall(with extensive modifiation to skills and feats), and my second character, Talon, is loosely based on the Rogue Archer(again, with extensive modifications to skills and feats). So, as inspiration for a good build, one that will let you survive long enough to be able to RP, they work.
Now, that's not to say that there's anything inherently 'wrong' with using one of the epic builds straight out of the box, as it were. If that's your thing, I say go for it. But if you do, dont even bother making any pretensions to RPing, cuz that's not what those builds are about. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Anyway...that's my [img]graemlins/twocents.gif[/img] on the whole thing. [img]smile.gif[/img]