You know you're dying to share, to go on about your fun character and his cool adventures. Well, here's the place to do it!
My character is Talbor, a human Warmage. He was originally a gestalt Warmage/Scout who'd apply his Skirmish damage to spells that require an attack roll, like the Lesser Orbs. But then too many people joined the game so the gestalt folks dropped half their character and became normal ol' PCs.
My character concept for him is unique for me. I'm trying to play a character who's not annoying. This is hard for me because of my method of character definition - where I pick a trait or two to define my character, then play the hell out of them, filtering all actions through the personality first. I played the greedy, selfish bard, the cowardly, paranoid dwarven rogue, etc. So this character was designed to be good with the ladies and a tactical genius (DM is letting me take ranks in Knowledge (Tactics)). Now, this could be done in an annoying way, but I'm really trying not to. One of our other players keeps me in line by having her character more likely to put out when my character succeeds at being good with the ladies without being annoying about it.
So, tell me about your current characters!
Quote from: Name LipsOne of our other players keeps me in line by having her character more likely to put out when my character succeeds at being good with the ladies without being annoying about it.
... and yet you somehow managed to answer "no" to the fatbeard question with a straight face? :confused:
My current character is Blessed Peace. He's a Battles Sidereal.
Mad Hatter was running a campaign that blew up; he lost a bunch of players to RL crap. He and Carrot had talked about how cool the game was, so Darlena and I felt bad that he was never going to finish it. So we created characters and joined up.
The *problem* is that our sole exposure to Exalted was several games as Dragonblooded -- the simplest characters in the game. Now, we were suddenly going to have to play experienced Sidereals (the most complicated characters in the game) in a long storyline that was between one-third and one-half of the way through. Our confusion has been rather massive, but we're still having a lot of fun.
Blessed Peace acts more like a Serenity caste exalted -- he is very calm, cool, collected. He wants to save the world and restore order to it and he's willing to sacrifice ANYONE to do it. Very literally -- the only reason he's still alive is the luck of a die roll; he was quite ready to sacrifice himself to save the rest of the group and the half-evil baby we were protecting.
Blessed Peace is good in combat (shockingly good, actually, since that isn't his main focus) but he excells at manipulating others to do the dirty work. Which pretty much sums up the sidereals, actually -- manipulative little bastards. :)
Quote from: Thjalfi... and yet you somehow managed to answer "no" to the fatbeard question with a straight face? :confused:
This is the thread for us to all let our inner fatbeard out... for a little while at least.
You have to admit, you've longed to talk about your character. But it's taboo. C'mon, you can share here. We won't mock you. Right away. Much.
(or maybe you've noticed that this is in some ways a counter to my fatbeard thread, where first I get everybody to claim they're not fatbeards, and then I start up a thread for them all to wander in and prove otherwise...)
You know, I just can't do this.
The guys in r.f.g.a talked me into doing this once years ago and I'm still embarrassed as how boring it was when I'm forced to remember it.
What's in the game, stays in the game.
I had a great idea for a series of characters for CoC that unfortunately closed down due to moves and job changes. They were all going to be tragic characters, in the Shakespearian sense. They would have a fatal flaw that would lead to their eventual doom. Rather than worrying about death in a highly lethal game, make the death part of the fun.
The first one managed to die before we quit. He was a professor on probation for shady actions with library items. He was broke and always looking for collectibles to pawn. Naturally, he scooped up every mythos book and item he could find and tried to sell them to the sorts of people who would like that sort of thing.
I had a big game hunter written up. He measured his self worth by how big of a creature he could defeat. He would never back down from a challenge.
It is *not* wrong to talk about your character when someone specifically asks you about it. If you're that worried about being a "fatbeard", then you're a moron and you should fuck off.
Quote from: CyberzombieIt is *not* wrong to talk about your character when someone specifically asks you about it. If you're that worried about being a "fatbeard", then you're a moron and you should fuck off.
Was that directed at me?
If so I didn't mean that I thought it was wrong, or that I was worried about being a fatbeard, I just can't do it. It doesn't come out right.
Or maybe I'm just boring to begin with. Hard to say sometimes.
Quote from: gleichmanWas that directed at me?
If so I didn't mean that I thought it was wrong, or that I was worried about being a fatbeard, I just can't do it. It doesn't come out right.
Or maybe I'm just boring to begin with. Hard to say sometimes.
No, though you might consider it a warning shot. ;)
That was directed squarely at Thjalfi and Name Lips. :p
Quote from: CyberzombieNo, though you might consider it a warning shot. ;)
That was directed squarely at Thjalfi and Name Lips. :p
Oh. I feel better.
Upon reflection however, I likely shouldn't have posted as it didn't serve a purpose in the thread.
I don't have a character right now... :(
See my thread (http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=988) about it. ;)
Quote from: CyberzombieNo, though you might consider it a warning shot. ;)
That was directed squarely at Thjalfi and Name Lips. :p
psssh, I'm talking about the content of NL's post, not the fact that he's talking about his character.
Next he's gonna tell us he uses the book of elf pron.. erm I mean the book of erotic fantasty in his games! :heh:
Quote from: Thjalfipsssh, I'm talking about the content of NL's post, not the fact that he's talking about his character.
Next he's gonna tell us he uses the book of elf pron.. erm I mean the book of erotic fantasty in his games! :heh:
Now that you mention it... My wife's character in my campaign DOES have all 5 levels from one of the PrCs from that book. We just changed the flavor text.
Quote from: Name LipsNow that you mention it... My wife's character in my campaign DOES have all 5 levels from one of the PrCs from that book. We just changed the flavor text.
:roofle: :killingme: :roofle:
I'm playing three campaigns:
Traveller - A Chinese smuggler in his 60s, slightly insane but quite business-savvy. If you've seen Big Trouble in Little China, you know who I'm talking about. ;)
Shadowrun 4th - An Israeli merc with Mossad ties, specialized in electronic warfare and hacking. What he is doing in Denver is anyone's guess.
Immortal Rome - An immortal Spartan soldier turned mercenary. Very professional about his job, he'll work for you until someone kills him, then he finds a new boss.
Prior to this character, I'd been playing an immortal Roman senator who was a close supporter of Claudius. He had to leave the region for a couple decades after becoming way too famous. Currently on a merchant expedition to India and China.
My most recent character is Hrothgar Odinson a human barbarian. He's kind of Conan with the serial numbers sanded off a bit.
About the most interesting personality quirk of his is that any obviously monstrous creature he kills, he skins.
I haven't played in a few months, though. Ran into scheduling conflicts with work.
I'm playing two characters...
Lancarver ir'Arnyan - a Cyran noble warrior, Lan survived the Day of Mourning and has lived the past four years (the game takes place 4 years, rather than 2 years after the Day of Mourning) in Sharn, seeing to the needs of his exiled Cyran brothers and sisters. After being asked to retrieve an artifact from the bowels of Sharn (and thus getting a reward to pay for rent), things went haywire when his boss doubled crossed him and his friends. Lan ended up traveling to Darguun, seeking more information on the artifact.
Lan is a spellsword/eldritch knight multiclassed character. He's also a ladies man and the defacto party leader - seeing as during the campaign, he's the only character still around from the original "get item X for me" adventure.
Sakor Gersason is my other character, in a planescape game. The game has been running for four years now. I was initially the DM in the online game, however, I told the players in advance that I'd be stopping the game when I started college. Well, the players wanted to continue and another player volunteered to DM the game. In order to bridge the campaigns, the game went planar - and my character hails from the homeworld of most of the other characters (since the planescape switch over - we've gained 3 more players).
Sakor is the lone disciple of the god of magic for the PC's homeworld - which was conviently destroyed by The Eater of Worlds. Sakor has been selected as Nemamiah's Choosen (the DM is using the Four Horned Feathered Fowl as planar powers above the power of other deity powers.). Sakor seeks to keep his dead god alive by converting others to the faith and making sure Seekers of the Source keep their god-drills off his corpse floating on the Astral Plane.
Recently Sakor learned that the party conspired against him and stole his notes on the anatomy of modrons and the horrible experiments the Tacharim arcanists performed by grafting modron body parts to humanoids. Of course, it hurt Sakor all the more to find out his love interest, another player in the game, did the stealing on the night they first slept together.
Sakor is by far the most fun and the game has plenty of social roleplaying, building lives for Clueless primes on the outerplanes, kicking ass, and following the Modrons as they march around the Great Wheel.
Now that the school year is over:
Chailyn - sword swingin', honour-bound psychopath in an Alternity game. I think the only reason why she hasn't gone completely apeshit and killed everyone is because she's tightly bound by that bizarre code of honour of hers.
Katherine Matthews - Euthanatos mage in a LARP who teaches at an "Xavier's school for the gifted"-esque Academy. I'm the only member of the faculty who shows up on a regular basis, though, which means that despite being a junior teacher everyone comes to her with Dire News Of The End Of The World and expects her to do something about it. She's very tired right now.
Nicola - Daeva in a Vampire: the Requiem LARP with house rules (because the new MET system is so dumb...). A pissy, arrogant socialite who often chooses not the be tactful because she doesn't have the patience for many of the games being played in court. Thus far I haven't seriously offended anyone (I think) but I suspect this is because no one has done something so utterly idiotic that she's felt the need to rub their face in it. There's a good dynamic between Nicola and Finaira's character since they've hated each other since before the game started.
Sister Mary Cooper - a Dog from Dogs in the Vineyard. I took the stereotypical "good woman who knows her place" and turned her into a Dog without adding in the angst. Or at least, not a lot of it. She was worried that a man was going to demand her hand in marriage and while she certainly wants to get married one day, she didn't think it was supposed to be with him. So now her place is with the Dogs until the King of Life calls her to a different duty.
Dem... something - It's funny, but I can't even remember the full name of this character. I keep thinking of her as "the dwarf", I suspect because she refers to everyone else as things like "priest" or "Sneaky" or whatever. Anyway, a dwarven musketeer in the Evernight campaign setting of Savage Worlds. It amuses me to preen about my beard and huff about the short lives of humans. Arrogant twit.... :)
Plus a new character (necromancer in a Scandinavian folkloresque setting using Levi's Exchange system) once Finaira starts up her campaign....
This might be considered spam, but I don't have anything to do with the escapist.com site.
They have a feature there, called "Tell me about your character (http://www.theescapist.com/tellme/)", and from what I've heard, they're looking for people to participate.
So maybe it's something for you?
As for me, I've been DM'ing the past 2 1/2 years, so unfortunately I've got no character to talk of.
Father Aster of Venya – I started out playing him as a 1st level half-elf cleric of Heironeous. He was an orphan who had been raised by the church to be a war-priest in their army. 8 years of D&D later he is a 22nd level cleric/paladin/Shining Blade half-celestial son of Heironeous. Our group is in the midst of trying to stop a cult from resurrecting Frenit (sp?), Asters half-brother (also a son of heironeous) who fell to the darkside, so he can lead an army of demons in conquering the world. Aster is full of righteous fury and unwavering faith, but he fears above all things following in his brother’s footsteps and being a disappointment to his father. Aster wants to redeem his brother, having known no family his entire life, but is resigned to the fact that he may have to destroy him instead.
I cant wait for this game to be finally over.... im looking forward to something a little more "normal" and a lot less Lawful Good!
I've got a couple of characters going right now:
In Nine Worlds, I play Oliver Xendlos, a doctor from Sol. Sol is the most enlightened, educated, and sophisticated of the worlds, and Oliver is the best and the brightest of Sol's highly educated upper class. He's on the run because he found out the Apollo (Sol's ruler) unleashed a plague on his own citizens.
Oliver is really fun to play, because he's charming, dapper, sophisticated, and earnestly a good guy. In Nine Worlds, you have to balance your character between Arete (your natural skill, capability, and excellence) and Hubris (your ability to subvert the Gods' world with magic). Oliver is pure Arete. He's insufferably good at everything. One of my favorite moments was picking up a decorative fencing sword from his ex-girlfriend's mantlepiece and single-handedly subduing Herakles and a dozen operatives from AEGIS (Zeus's secret police organization.) He was, of course, captain of the fencing team at University.
He just got back to Sol and is headed for a showdown with Apollo next session (whenever that is.)
My other character is my D&D character, named Sharif. He's Human Paragon 3 / Fighter 4 / Blackguard 1 right now, and looking to go pure blackguard for at least three more levels. He's a straight-up high strength Power-Attack greatsword fighter. His deal is that his homeland was invaded by dragons, and that he has made a pact with the abyss to gain the strength to fight them (Blackguard levels + his bad-ass Black Sword).
I haven't played him enough to really get a handle on him yet. The game is play-by-chat, which is *slow*.
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--Ben
I'm playing Gavaran, a Rogue 2/Monk 2 in a burglary based, urban D&D game. Gavaran is an inventor and a kind of proto-scientist; his levels in monk reflect learning "scientific" athletics and fencing. He's a smith by trade but only got there over the course of a difficult life where quite a few robberies and penny-ante schemes got him the money to set up shop. The long term plan is to steal the scientific secrets of he local clerical-technological order to free crafts and science from the grip of the aristocracy and their priestly pals.
As the only party member with a buisness that's open to the public, his forge and store has become a discreet meeting place between capers. He tends to fiddle out the details in a plan (all robberies occur according to a carefully rehearsed plan -- we don't randomly crawl places, ever). He tends to have eccentric but functional ideas, such as forcing the party to wear outrageous duck hats during a robbery (people focus on the duck hats instead of faces). He has a twee British accent (remnant of an abandoned experiment in social climbing) and is prone to histrionics about little things, but not important ones. He also loand money to one party member who spends everything on mistresses, bastards and luxury items.
Scott is my character in our current Witchcraft campaign (a variation on the default campaign setting for Witchcraft, one where magic and the supernatural is out in the open - think Shadowrun in the modern day). A college drop-out magician with a wide range of abilities. He used to work in a bookstore and play blues music part time. He recently joined a detective agency that specialies in 'weird stuff' (due to a financial windfall, he now owns the bookstore, and still plays blues gigs on the side). Besides his magical skills, he can draw on a huge number of skills that he remembers from several past lives.
Despite carrying a gun as part of his job. He prefers not to kill if possible. He's only had to do so twice, when there really wasn't any other option, and both times have left him pretty shaken. He prefers to use the threat of a gun over actually having to fire a gun at someone.