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Fantasy name for fixer

Started by Soylent Green, October 05, 2012, 01:04:54 PM

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Soylent Green

October 05, 2012, 01:04:54 PM
How would you call in a fantasy setting the classic Shadowrun fixer type character, the guy with contacts who get's you the jobs and may or may not screw you over afterwards?
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October 05, 2012, 01:11:25 PM
The Quest Giver? The Gm? Barkeep? That shadowy figure dressed in dark robes in the corner of the bar?

The Traveller

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October 05, 2012, 01:20:31 PM
I'm not sure there was a medieval English equivalent as such, you could make up your own gutter patois title, most fantasy novels did. Come to think of it, I can't come up with much sci fi that had something similar, its always individuals like "the laughing man" or "madam tapdance".
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October 05, 2012, 01:26:56 PM
Bawd.

Nihilistic_Impact

#4
October 05, 2012, 01:26:59 PM
Don't know how much this will work for you; but I've always been partial to Chamber's King in Yellow Repairer of Reputations. Always thought it was a cool title, have yet to actually use it in game play though.

Soylent Green

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October 05, 2012, 01:35:51 PM Last Edit: October 05, 2012, 01:38:32 PM by Soylent Green
The list I have so far, in case it helps engender ideas includes:

Go-between
Mediator
Intermediary
Impresario (total misuse of the term, but I could pull it off!)
Broker
Basket weaver
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October 05, 2012, 01:50:50 PM
Face/Faceman
Channel
Cutout
Facilitator
Solicitor
rofl@basket-weaver, The Weaver or Spider could be good though.

I would kind of lay off the "it's not a shadowrun until your fixer has betrayed you twice" trope.  Fixers whose clients disappear tend to not get other clients. Reputation is everything and is a much greater defense then hired guns/thugs.
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October 05, 2012, 01:56:00 PM
Quote from: Soylent Green;589457How would you call in a fantasy setting the classic Shadowrun fixer type character, the guy with contacts who get's you the jobs and may or may not screw you over afterwards?

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October 05, 2012, 02:10:16 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;589476I would kind of lay off the "it's not a shadowrun until your fixer has betrayed you twice" trope.  Fixers whose clients disappear tend to not get other clients. Reputation is everything and is a much greater defense then hired guns/thugs.

It's the sort of trope that you use sparingly, else it loses it's impact.

For a fantasy fixer, "broker" sounds good, but how about... "Geoff". He's the guy who knows a guy. Taking the time and effort to develop that variety of contacts, in a fantasy world, requires much more hard work than in a modern-day, due to how much slower information travels. He's been everywhere, everyone knows him, and everyone trusts him.
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One Horse Town

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October 05, 2012, 02:11:54 PM
Factor.

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#10
October 05, 2012, 02:31:12 PM
Courtier, possibly, or panderer, depending on what kind of default assumptions you want to evoke... "Jack" as in the character on the deck of cards... or "villain" in a more Shakespearian sense, perhaps? Or you can just play with current pop culture and call the class "Littlefinger."

Silverlion

#11
October 05, 2012, 03:06:00 PM
I myself like the term "Factor" mentioned above. You also have mediator or alternately agent.
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#12
October 05, 2012, 03:22:28 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;589486Factor.
Aha, another Belgariad fan. I was also going to say "rake".
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#13
October 05, 2012, 08:18:13 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;589486Factor.

Quote from: The Traveller;589503Aha, another Belgariad fan. I was also going to say "rake".

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October 05, 2012, 09:29:14 PM
or Rob Roy.

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