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I suppose most people haven't played HackMaster- I like that you can buy your way up to 25 points in whatever stat you wish, but that is balanced by flaws and quirks. It takes some experience to get the right sort of character, which I did not have. And so, an elegy for my recently killed first character, Keese.
For some background, we were playing the Temple of Elemental Evil, which our GM had modified for HackMaster. Two PCs and two NPCs, Elmo and Zert, were exploring a moathouse, when Zert betrayed us. It did not end well.

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Keese Dahlgren, a half-elf bold
Enough to run away
Was beaten into the ground
In a bloody TPK.

An acrobat, he rather lacked
The finer roguish arts.
Sadly, his sole proficiency
Was in throwing lawn darts.
Strong as an ox, frail as a leaf
And dumber than a brick,
There were no redeeming qualities
In the things that made him tick.
He was psychotically averse
To the sight of his own race,
And also nightmared chronically
(His mother beat him with a mace.)
Kicked out of inns for his wild screams
He consoled himself with food
And packed on pounds, ‘til thirteen stone
And five-foot two he stood.

Level two, going on three
Was Keese when he passed away.
Most who knew him still insist
He had it coming, anyway.

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Anyone else have characters they rather abhorred? Or would like to share a poem of any quality related to gaming?