Evening, all!
I’m starting in a new campaign soon and the DM is starting everyone at Level 3. I’m wondering what people think of the character concept below...
Race: Half-Elf
Class: Fighter (3) - Battlemaster
Background: Entertainer
Concept: Before joining the party, this chap was part of a travelling show touring the kingdom and his role was as part of an exhibition sword fighting act. He’s not the strongest but very dexterous and he knows how to put on a show for the crowd.
One night he’s drinking with the other performers when another act, a fortune teller, starts telling their fortunes. The fortune teller goes around the various folk until he gets to the PC at which point he recoils somewhat and foretells that death stalks the PC and one day he will be the spark that ignites a war.
Everyone is drunk so they laugh it off but this stays with the PC and it changes his act for the worst. One night, after a singularly terrible performance, the PC is dropped altogether and, rather than go home, he hits the adventuring scene instead.
I still need to work out how he found the rest of his group but what do people think of the start?
My thinking is that the “prophecy” thing could be a plot hook for the DM if he wants or it could be a load of garbage from a fraudulent fortune teller. If it turns out to be true then in future the PC might multiclass as a warlock (representing a higher - or lower power- trying to bring the PC under its wing so as to control the nature of the war that he starts)