[Annunfuiniel]

Ouch, generalizations! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Well, I have yet not finished a single Rpg but I'm currently playing in two games, and hope to make that three soon. And I have/have had total of five characters of which one was female; Mayla the healer and herbalist made a brief visit to the Green Dragon. I really didn't know what I was doing with her so she just left and no-one has heard of her since. But she didn't own any weapons and I believe all her close relatives were still alive...

The characters I'm playing at the moment (or hope to play) are:

*An aging guard of Gondor though admittedly good with his sword also into story-telling and singing old lays. He's over 50 years old so naturally his parents are dead (oops, his father was killed in the War of the Ring before he was born, so not quite a natural death).

*Evil (and at the moment drunken) orc, one of the surviving orcs of Isengard. But he's a pure orc not any crooked half-orc! Nothing really to add to that.

*Gráin and Vráin, dwarf brothers from the Grey Mountains hunting for a dragon. Both wielding a battle axe but so far they have used only their words as their swords. Both parents still alive and doing fine.

But maybe I should play a shield-maiden one day, just for the heck of it? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
Just one more thing to say: the language problems may cause some characters to turn into clichés. It's difficult to be original if you have to check every other word from the dictionary and know only a dozen or so proverbs... Putting your thoughts down to writing is difficult enough in your native tongue! Ok, that was a bit overstated but you get the picture. I hope.