More Fun To Compute said:Ah, Troika. My last attempt at Arcanum was a Half-Ogre and it was pretty funny how the game reacted even if Arcanum isn't really a hit with me. For Bloodlines I played a Malkavian first and the people who say not to are horrible liars. Playing with a Malk first is hilarious and doesn't really spoil anything important.Cogwheel said:Arcanum. Picture, if you will, someone who delves into the worst dungeons in the planet in a smoking jacket and a top hat. This top hat is covered in wires and creates a magnetic field that deflects bullets and other attacks. He is carrying two weapons: A giant, fuel-covered fiery axe and a rifle that shoots lightning. He rarely needs to use either or enter dungeons at all since he can talk his way past most things in any case, but the point remains.
This person is a halfling.
My favourite builds are in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup though. Sludge Elf Transmuter is a favourite because you throw exploding potions then go all kung-fu on monsters with bare hands combat. When they are dead you use necromancy to extract more potions from their corpse. And what the hell is a sludge elf anyway? The Hill Orc Priest is funny as well when all of the Orcs in the dungeon start treating you like John the Baptist.
Stone Soup, you say? I eventually finished it with, of all the stupid combinations, a kobold earth elementalist. Odd, but there you go. Troll Healers are always good fun, in a short-lived kind of way. That or troll monks. Basically Bruce Lee+Hulk.