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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #60 on: 23 January 2014, 22:39:05 »
Hows your Dog Boy comming long Guard?

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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #61 on: 24 January 2014, 01:45:25 »
well I got the dog boys stats all worked out bear in mind they are rather "crazy" due to my dice being really "hot" when I was rolling up her stats.

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IQ 28 (+14% to skills)
ME 20 +3 save vs psionic attacks and insanity
MA 15 no bonus
PS 46 supernatural +29 bonus on sdc attacks melee damage, 1d6x10 (+29) sdc restrained punch, 6d6 MDC full strength punch, 2d4x10 MDC on a power punch.
PP 29 +7 to strike, parry or dodge in hand to hand combat
PE 44 supernatural
PB 26 80% bonus to charm or impress
SPD 74 /5 can run at ~ 50.4545 mph, dig at a speed of 5 (about 3.5mph)

as far as my "story" goes after she graduated from the training program (with some watch and monitor notes due to "borderline aggression/submission issues" (she is a wolf and has to think about submitting to officers that she doesn't respect) she did some standard garrison duty type stuff then got assigned to a patrol that headed east and ran into a Splugorth major raid where both sides were decimated, She was knocked unconscious and then stepped on by a robot vehicle, basically crushing her armor and the survivors thought it had broken her neck so they gave her "mercy" (coalition thought is dog boys are pretty disposable, not worth trying to haul her back for treatment) what no one had really realized was due to her supernatural stats she was a minor mdc being (MDC equal to combined sdc and HP or 222 MDC in her case) so she woke up a few hours later and scavenged some replacement gear from the wreckage of the battle, a plasma sword (atlantis pg 152) 2d6 mdc per strike, 4d6 mdc per blast, a strange necklace (talisman of armor off a blind warrior woman) a suit of CA6-EX armor minus helmet, a CTT-P40, a C-29 hellfire and a C-20 laser pistol. 
When she tried to report back the Coalition group insisted she was confirmed dead, and must be an infiltrator, so she split while she tried to figure out what to do next, and accidently went through a rift.  Next thing she knew she was on a different planet in some woods, she climbed a tree and spotted a city on a plateau, across a plain  she headed toward the city, but couldn't understand anyone once she got there.  Someone had a protocol (translator droid) and after discovering she didn't have any of their money she started taking odd jobs to earn some, clean up some pests, (lucked out and someone wanted the things for a display (zoo exibit) bodyguard work, where someone tried to stab her and she shot another assassin (turning him to red mist ) blowing a hole through him and damaging the wall behind him, doing "grunt warehouse work" etc.  this went on for a month or two and then there was a "trade federation blockade" of the planet, shortly after that there was a bunch of troops landed, so she took a job escorting some people out of the city, during the various events runs etc she ended up taking out around 40-50 battledroids, a few destroyer droids etc and looted most of the battle droids blasters well she was not real impressed with the blasters but she had noted they were kind of valuable, so "loot /credits" after she finally left the city she followed some people into a camp (snuck up on the guard post unintentionally) and traded in all the droid blaster rifles, for a generator to recharge eclips she had drained,
After a couple days she sensed a "supernatural" presence and tracked it down, it turned out to be a "Jedi" and when they found out she was only ~5 years old well ... so she met and talked to this kid named "Anakin Skywalker", they talked about pod racing, and hover cycles, she showed him a few basic throws, and a couple days later they assaulted the city to take it back from the trade federation, Sara did some things and captured a trade federation guy and his droid, etc.  when everything calmed down she went to Corescant with the jedi, where she spent about 3 years at the jedi temple training
 (got 2nd level and shifted to a jedi occ) they accepted her because she was actually about 4-5 years younger than Anakin (she was 5 when they met, and Anakin is 9 in episode 1) but Sara (my dog boy) advanced through some aspects of jedi training really quickly, due to her being in some ways a child, and other ways an adult plus she has already completed a military academy course equivalent (aprox age 2-4 or 5 years of age)

where I stopped writing she hasn't quite graduated to padawan (assigned to a master) but she is close (I figured she went through most of the youngling, and other training in about 3-4 years because what no one (in star wars) really got was that when she was 5 she was actually the equivalent of being a ~17-19 year old human in maturity
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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #62 on: 26 January 2014, 08:53:50 »
Brooklyn Red Legs, haha, never heard of them (I came into the Deadland games when the GM, who apparently did some work with the creators of the game or something) switch from our MW2nd/3rd hybrid game.  We had group cohesion problems as our characters were so weird/out there it was hard to get everyone moving at once.  There were quite a few moments that still stick out.  My poor character just wasn't that smart; poor draw on character creation  :D

Heh, yea, I played a Huckster for a while and damned near died more than once due to bad draws. Hexarcana, IIRC, made the rules more friendly which made that Huckster of mine more deadly and less apt to explodifying myself. ;D Then, of course, the revised version of Deadlands came along....

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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #63 on: 31 January 2014, 22:52:57 »
So in other words, a Dog Boy Jedi...

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« Reply #64 on: 30 April 2014, 23:58:07 »
About ten years ago I had a D&D GM that decided to let the group run rampant when it came to character creation just for fun. Hoooooo boy...

I ended up with a character that's seen her way through multiple RP systems: Bradley.

She started out as an Iron Golem (all pros and cons included) in D&D v3.0. Though...she was a more reasonable nine feet tall...and had a chest, if you catch my drift. She was tons of fun to play: she wielded a two-handed war maul and a lance, which she used to spear a man through the chest with from fifty feet. The war maul got defeated by the town guild house door AND the guildmaster's desk (crit fails ftw) She also may or may not have been the sole reason that the local guild house collapsed from internal structural damage...

Fast-forward four years: Bradley has gone from  D&D to TriStat/BeSm and become a much deeper character. I dropped some of the perks of being a Golem, such as the immunity to emotional effect, instead making her much more sensitive to emotion since my story was that she had been the first successful soul bound to armor that retained sentience and was thus plagued by periodic nightmares of her former life, though she never knew it. I also made her able to use electric magic and at one point, she killed a freaking demi-god using her 'rage bolt'. Eventually she became a Wyvern Knight, married a guy named Jiro The Braggart and went looking for clues to her past. A bit cliche, but still, I loved the hell out of her and wish I could play her again; I still have her TriStat character sheets. :)
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Torn between a few, so I'll note two.

Star Wars: 
Jake, a ridiculously specialized B-Wing pilot with zero Force abilities, surrounded by aspiring Jedi.  Famous for the "Don't follow me" tag line, used right before doing something crazy in his B-Wing, like charging a Star Destroyer alone (think skin dancing from Babylon 5).  Due to me misunderstanding some details on droids, Jake frequently let his MSE droid perform Astrogation calculations.  This ended up with me nearly disappearing in hyperspace a few times, arriving at a destination before I had left the previous one, bouncing off of a hidden world (that messed with the plot line something fierce), etc.  Fun times.

Chivalry and Sorcery:
Draconian Lord.  Teamed up with a Ninja.  Yeah.  We both had to be effectively shipwrecked to meet in the first place.  Odd, but it worked.  Notable for providing years of hilarity and epic stories. 

All of it started when when encountered a lizard man riding a giant tortoise in the woods.  The lizard man saw me and said in mangled Draconian: "You, god?"  A brief, motionless glance at the other PC later, I reply: "Yes.  Take me to my people."  GM does a double-take, facepalms and "Oh ****!"

A few games later I'm a living god, with a ninja demi-god companion.  I teach a legion of lizardmen metallurgy, magic, and math.  Hilarity ensues.  My character survived two wars (one against humans, another against undead), two crusades (one by proving he wasn't a demon, no less!), and several epic battles.  He one-shotted a Wyvern (dice loved me that day), wielded a legendary arbalest (he was strong enough to ****** it manually), was prone to ripping peoples limbs off, and once steered an F5 tornado through a city in the process of invading/ransacking it.

Sadly it all came to an end when the ninja took an unlocky hit and died.  All due to a misunderstanding my a good-two-shoes king.  Won't go into the details, but I ended up becoming a half-demon, raising my comrade as a full-fledged demon, and going on a rampage of vengeance.  The campaign ended as I physically tore said king to pieces.

Can we list favorite GM-ing character of all time?  If so:

Heroes Unlimited:
Mr Dark - An evil psychic character who played the PC group against a supervillain group in a "plans within plans" kind of way.  He had a habit of following one of the female PC's around while astrally projected, just to mess with her.  A different PC made the mistake of letting me define missing pieces of his back story - perfect way to end up an psychically brainwashed, unwitting mole for Mr. Dark.  He fed another PC information in the form of implanted dreams/nightmares. 

The best moment to play him came when a PC (dream/nightmare one) realized that Mr. Dark had revealed the entire supervillain group's plot to him in the second game session, which the PC had instantly discarded as lies from an evil character.  After 8 months of weekly gaming, everything fell into place.  The PC, who never swears, broke into a cussing fit when he finally put 2 + 2 together.  The look on the rest of the PC's faces was priceless.

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I so really wanted to make a Tonbo Deathhead transport.... but stoped short.

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My group loved the Rifts crossover and asked for more.

Any ideas I could use to represent? Thinking Protos for Gargoyles and Ultra-heavy Protos for the Lords. UAR-1 Enforcer as the Atlas and maybe the C-003 Spider Walker as the Scorpion?

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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #67 on: 24 August 2014, 00:42:39 »
I just remembered an old favorite of mine in a 2nd Edition D&D game.

Human Wild Mage.  I don't even remember the character's actual name anymore, but that isn't all that surprising since he never got called it: by the third session he'd earned the nickname of Friendly Fire.
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« Reply #68 on: 24 August 2014, 02:01:40 »
I just remembered an old favorite of mine in a 2nd Edition D&D game.

Human Wild Mage.  I don't even remember the character's actual name anymore, but that isn't all that surprising since he never got called it: by the third session he'd earned the nickname of Friendly Fire.

Played in a game that had a similar incident - one guy was playing an elven ranger who specialised in bows and had his ranged combat maxed out the wazoo
First role, shot into melee - and managed to miss, striking my Cleric for something like 20 odd points of damage.
The elf player had been bragging all night about his amazingly skills.
I look with utter disdain at him "nice work special ops!"

Special ops was his nickname from that point on...


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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #69 on: 24 August 2014, 10:10:59 »
Played in a game that had a similar incident - one guy was playing an elven ranger who specialised in bows and had his ranged combat maxed out the wazoo
First role, shot into melee - and managed to miss, striking my Cleric for something like 20 odd points of damage.
The elf player had been bragging all night about his amazingly skills.
I look with utter disdain at him "nice work special ops!"

Special ops was his nickname from that point on...
heh that reminds me of a really evil "friendly fire" incident that happened in one of our games years ago. 

ok the gm was running rifts/palladium system and loved making "super tech" weapons and stuff.

one of the chars had managed to pick up a "Hellstorm 389 suit" it had a "ping pong ball from hell gun" it fires a ping pong ball sized antimatter round, that you roll like 2d6 and that equals the number of d6X10 mdc it does to a 20ft plus some variable based on the dice done radius. so the char fires the gun, just as this mutant gator thing jumped up out of a manhole 2 feet in front of him.. I can't remember if it was a tpk or not but if anyone survived it was barely, and the "friendly fire blast" was basically maximum possible damage

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« Reply #70 on: 24 August 2014, 12:24:59 »
Played in a game that had a similar incident

It wasn't an incident so much as a running gag in the party that Friendly tended to always get either "Spell strikes everyone in a 30 ft radius of caster" or "Fireball on caster" as a wild surge result.  Magic items that provided resistance to fire, lightning, and cold damage or magic resistance were very popular in that campaign, though the GM was using the Easy Resurrection rules (no level loss and it was cheap to get the spell cast).
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« Reply #71 on: 24 August 2014, 22:35:25 »
Saw this and had to contribute.

Sir Erik Longspear, 2nd Ed. D&D, 9th level Cavalier. Erik never lost the 'I'll save you, fair damsel!"- attitude.  He went through a lot of heavy warhorses, though.  Eventually I spent a bit of gold to breed horses, then invested in other stuff.

He finally got rich enough to retire, was made a Baron, and I pulled a fast one on the DM.  I studied some geology books and described my new territory over THREE PAGES of handwritten notes as an island with a massive waterfall on one side and an impassable set of rapids on the other with a medium-sized lake in front if it.

Naturally the DM just said OK, thence proceeded to have Orks, goblins, and every thing else he could think of come at me; I put bounties on the creatures, convinced the Duke to send out some Rangers to help, and - here's the kicker - 'discovered' the massive empty cavern under the waterfall.  I traded the cavern to the dwarves, used humans to run the pwater transport to and from civilization, and elves to clear the forests.  Eventually the Dwarves and Gnomes made a huge manufacturing complex using the falls to power huge hammers and bellows.  (Think the latest Hobbit movie.)

And then- the piece de resistance!

The Spelljammer boxed set came out.  (I had been foaming at the mouth for it for months!)  By the end of the first week, I was hiring wizards to create fireworks displays, and finally an encounter roll went my way.  Moored behind the falls, an Elven Imperial Navy ship stayed as my guest for a week, making contact with the local Elves.

The DM told me I couldn't play him anymore!  He became a NPC, providing money and equipment to new adventurer bands, telling people about the good old days at the drop of anything resembling a cue.
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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #72 on: 25 August 2014, 23:49:42 »
I ran into a Rifts GM at Gencon and was describing to him " Angel " my personal Rifts chara, the Amphib mystic-mage w/ bio-tech and magic tats. And he said a new ruling was made that you lose the tats if you get bio-tech. Didn't have time to talk to Kevin on Friday as they were closing but on Sat. I made a bee-line to only find out Kevin wasn't going to be there until much later. Being caught up in the 'Con moment, I lost track of time and completely forgot about the subject.

Now I have to track down and see if this " rumor " is true.  Guard? Have you heard about this or was he BSin' me? I sent an e-mail to Kevin via Palladium website. So far no response.

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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #73 on: 26 August 2014, 01:22:01 »
Mutants and Masterminds character, Lightstrobe. A disillusioned former teen hero who wore a bathrobe over his costume. He kept fighting crime just to meet the requirements of his contract but when the A-list heroes of the setting went missing, he had to sigh, tie up his bathrobe, and mentor the remaining new heroes. He had teleportation abilities, remote senses, and exceptional fighting skills. Most of those fighting skills were used one-handed, as he'd also developed the ability to conjure mugs of coffee.

Savnege was an Eclipse Caste Solar Exalted mercenary leader. As part of the band of PCs, he had to convince an assembly of powerful leaders to join a larger force for the greater good. A member of their society, Lord Vosnick, had been found dead outside of their lands, and we mistakenly assumed he was a respected emissary. Being a social character, Savnege made an impassioned impromptu speech before the assembly, invoking the name of the deceased and their presumed respect for him to sway them to our cause. At that point, the leader rose and awkwardly informed us that Vosnick had been a known isolationist who had lived out an unrelated exile. With nary a moment of introspection, Savnege pivoted and declared, "Then he was a fool!" and continued lobbying the audience by tossing the deceased under a bus. It didn't get us their immediate support, but it lead to a side quest that got us there. Playing a social prodigy, deal maker, and merchant of death in Exalted's super kung-fu anime setting was a great deal of fun.
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« Reply #74 on: 11 September 2014, 14:34:52 »
It wasn't an incident so much as a running gag in the party that Friendly tended to always get either "Spell strikes everyone in a 30 ft radius of caster" or "Fireball on caster" as a wild surge result.  Magic items that provided resistance to fire, lightning, and cold damage or magic resistance were very popular in that campaign, though the GM was using the Easy Resurrection rules (no level loss and it was cheap to get the spell cast).

Unknown to you or your character, some long-lost cousin of his was in our Forgotten Realms adventuring party.  He was simply referred to as "The Wild Mage" or "Wild Thang" or "Wild Wild One" and other things like that.  He saved us one round, killed half the party the next in the dungeons under Waterdeep in the penultimate moments, forcing new characters to somehow be brought in deep in the depths, but hey, it's cool  O0 

Wild Thang had a brother, who was a fighter ran by the player's brother, who was really random fighter number 2, but morphed into a sibling for whatever reasons, and we were all lowish level, so who cares, it wasn't a very long campaign. 

In one room set with an elaborate feast on a table ealier in the adventures in the first few levels of the dungeon, Brother Rando decided to "jump onto the table and boldly survey the room for treasure".  Exact quote, unfortunately.  A poisoned iron spike killed him instantly from above, iirc.    The DM could not believe one of us actually died because of this trap that can only kill if someone jumped onto the table.  The feast was perfectly edible and nourishing and magically reappeared every day.  It still cracks me up.
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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #75 on: 12 September 2014, 20:42:55 »
Basil "The Geek" was an AD&D character who started out his adventures a nerd in early 80's New England when he and some friends got ahold of gods map of the multiverse (the map from time bandits). Sickly and small of frame, yet quick of whit, he managed to become quite the charlatan, con artist and thief, and much later the 1st ed version of the Bard with a wizardly twist rather than druid.

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« Reply #76 on: 11 November 2014, 22:29:44 »
Back when I used to play D&D a lot, I had a character I dubbed "Arashi" (As my furry persona's name used to 'Arashi'). In any case, he epitomized the type of ranger I usually play as in D&D; Close combat, dual weapons. However, even starting at level 5, I had more health than both of our group's other tanks combined, and also moved faster than both of them. This coupled with my ability to deal the most damage on any one enemy (Not counting AoE spells) made me the unsung hero of the party. Kind of funny, though; Apparently, my character was as uncharismatic as I am, with his Charisma the only single-digit stat that he had (At a pathetic 6, compared to his next lowest stat, Wisdom, at a 12). Lumping that on top of what was problably my favorite sword of all time that our DM made (A class-locked longsword that bestowed a permanent Barbarian Rage with no downsides), and a penchant for throwing the shortsword at everyone, made that character a favorite.

Oh, and he also shared a bit of... "Time" with a bathtub demon  :-[ Problably the least fun I've had involving failing multiple strength checks...
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« Reply #77 on: 21 November 2014, 16:41:35 »
My first character was D&D Basic elf named Quester. I was in 2nd grade. My first mistake was to attack the Keep on the Borderlands.  He died a lot, but my older brother(DM) said it was " OK, he can come back from the dead"!!

Then we played Gang Busters. I named my gang after the song "I drink alone". Buddy Wiser on the tommy gun, Jimmy Bean my safe cracker, and Old Granddad the getaway driver.  I think I was in 4th grade, did not know what those names were for. My brother did!!!!

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« Reply #78 on: 09 January 2015, 15:33:06 »
I run a system like that Nekoryu. It works really well and runs on common sense. Of course I also make sure I pick players who won't take the Mick out of the system as an uber powerful person alongside a more mundane completely throws the game out.
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Now that i think of it, i havent actually played in a tabletop game yet.i just became the designated DM when i got into it, and it has stuck. I cant trust my group to run a decent game, see the Stupid players thread for why.
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hmmmmm     so many to choose from.

I think it must have been the serenity RPG ship captain....   no.


It had to be the Shadowrun bald eagle shapeshifter magician built on 850 karma pts,...   no.


Let's see now,   The AD&D dwarven cleric/fighter wearing the girdle of fire giant strength,...  no. 


My RIFTS technophobic Bishomon fighting monk that had a demon killing staff and called everything not human a oni,...   no. 


My WOD Highlander-type character that was part of the GMs experiment of doing a supers/space game using that system,...   nope. 


OK.  It was Wayne Liles.   My in battletech universe mercenary commander that was a character as close to me as I could get at the time I created him except he was a mechwarrior and a merc commander.  That has to be my favorite.  Of course, the name was changed to protect the innocent.   What?   Why are you laughing?   I am innocent!   At least of some of the things I'm accused of anyway.   LOL
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Billy Halfbeard, of the Goats, Gnomethief extraordinaire.

Got a new chara for a AD&D 2nd ed. game. Scores : 12,14,14,11,9,10 in that order.

So far he's made 100 gold coins from " Acquisitions ". I'm running him as a Ferengi-like, but with a touch of child-like behavior.

" What do you mean I can't have it? ", " It's not for sale? " and my favorite so far, " That looks heavy, can I carry it for you? ". If told no, " Why not? " stammering of course.

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Now that i think of it, i havent actually played in a tabletop game yet.i just became the designated DM when i got into it, and it has stuck. I cant trust my group to run a decent game, see the Stupid players thread for why.

You can tell us about any favorite PC, or NPC that you ran. 

I'm not limiting anyone to a character they ran.  That's the main focus,   but not the boundary.  It would cut out to many funny stories before they could be told here.  For posterity.  ;D
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Update:

Billy Halfbeard has made a new friend, a Halfling female Barbarian. Who happens to think his beard is cute. Another player created Aluna and she got thru life with her strength and boldness. Billy went out of his way to protect her from a Drow attack one night and well Aluna saw something in him. Billy is still not so sure what to make of this, yet. So far he is treating this as a minor nuisance. But having a three foot girlfriend who can benchpress close to 300 lbs is no joke.

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That is, if true tanker doesn't beat me to it. He makes truly evil units.Col.Hengist on 31 May 2013
TT, we know you are the master of nasty  O0 ~ Fletch on 22 June 2013
If I'm attacking you, conventional wisom says to bring 3x your force.  I want extra insurance, so I'll bring 4 for every 1 of what you have :D ~ Tai Dai Cultist on 21 April 2016
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Oh, for NPCs, gotta love Mung, the Meatpie selling Half Orc. He was from an old dungeon magazine adventure called Urban Decay (Great starter adventure), and I just took the ball and ran with it. Until my players killed him....... He was a nice, jovial and helpful guy with a thick Glasgow accent, whose only mistake was selling a meat pie to a druid without the druid knowing.
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just noticed this again.. my "favorite" practical joke char was a d&d 3rd edition "monster" char... started out as a hatchling gold dragon...

so since I was doing the whole practical joker thing a bit, she had some really odd ideas of what constituted treasure for her. (quite smart but not very educated... hey she's a baby) so one thing after another happens and she /they fight some hill giants, and one of them hits her in the tail with a club she got ticked and killed him then bit the club (because it bit her in the tail and it hurt.) as she was searching the bodies she found several boulders in their sacks (throwing stones for the giants) so of course she examines them and finds one that is pretty round, and starts playing with it and doing balance exercises (more or less) and is pretty much rolling up and down the halls and tunnels of the dungeon on a ~2-3 foot diameter rock like a dog or other animal doing the balance on the ball games..  apparently she also scared off several encounters from the rumble grind grind noises it was making...

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My favorite joke character was definitely of the lethal kind.

I don't remember the character's name anymore, but that doesn't really matter because nobody, including me, actually called him by it.

It was a 2nd Edition Planescape game, and he was a Xaosect Wild Mage.  Everybody called him Friendly Fire because of how often I got wild surges that caused my spells to hit the party.  Also, the GM had a few custom wild surge tables that he'd sometimes break out for extra hilarity.  Never did find out what all of them did, but I do know that one of them was "target is hit by a train."

And then there was his favorite spell, which was a custom spell: Irresistible Debilitating Wedgie of Doom.  Target is automatically struck with a brutal wedgie, which renders them slowed and causes them to take 2D6 damage per round, no saving throw.  Damage is increased by 1D6 if they're wearing chain armor or 2D6 if they're wearing plate.  Target does not need to be wearing pants or even to have an identifiable backside for this spell.
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My first character was Medron Pryde in a BattleTech campaign.  Ended up being the leader of a new merc unit in my high school role playing club.  Fun times.  Then I took the same character and played him in a decent-running campaign on Solaris.  Funnest moment was infiltrating a noble household.  Took out first guard, grabbed his radio, and spent the rest of the infiltration using the radio to first disinformation the HECK out of the defenders, and then taunt them when they finally figured out I was jawjacking them.  The half of the guard team still alive that is.  Fun times...  That campaign fell apart in the end, as most do.  When I went online and started doing stuff with BattleTech, I chose that name for my handle and the rest is history...  And the really funny thing?  I own a house now, and I rent out a couple bedrooms to other people.  I have found out over the last year that one of my tenants is the son of the GM who ran the Solaris campaign.  What a small, small world we live in...:)

Second character (name unremembered by me) was a Phoenix Clan Human/WaterSpirit Shujenga in Rykugen, the D&D 3rd Edition Oriental-themed game.  A Shujenja is a priest who can use swords.  Mine...well...I went for two characteristics...three actually.  One is that he took his peacekeeping duties as a Shujenga very seriously.  To the point that he stepped in front of the party to talk down attackers every chance he got...and he had the charisma, diplomacy, and fast talking stats to pull it off most of the time...  Characteristic two was that he was a pyromaniac.  He was a half water spirit who LOVED fire and loved nothing more than setting anybody stupid enough to ignore his good effort to save their lives on fire....  The third characteristic is that he loved anything Jade.  Anything.  He would pick the 3g Jade statue over the 150 gold awesome sword when getting treasure every day of the week.  He ended up retiring with all his jewels to start a jewelry shop in the end.  Best memory was going on a deep infiltration raid and setting random buildings on fire...and then burning random clan symbols in the ground outside.  By the time his party got back to base their clan leader was shaking her head at all the inter-clan rivalries they're helped inflame into open fighting.

Third character for Rifts was named Ash Landry.  It was a name he chose for himself.  He was a dragon.  His parents died and he was all that was left.  He spent all his time shapeshifted as human to hide the fact of what he was because he didn't want ANYBODY knowing he'd lived.  His side lost after all.  His defining characteristic was the perfect white suit he always wore.  And he was very vain about it.  It made him look...maaaaahvelous.  And he loved to dance and party with all the pretty girls.  All of them.  All the time.  If anyone ever wanted to piss him off, all they had to do was mess up his suit.  Shoot him through it.  Bleed on it.  Blow it up.  Whatever.  His tagline became, after someone started something, was to look down at his suit, look up at them, and say "you...messed up my suit..."  At which time he would reach inside his suit, shapeshift his hand into the shape of a pistol, and pull out his "flame throwing dragon gun" to start the fight from his side.  Never leave human form or let anyone think he wasn't human was his rule.  Best memory was actually one of the first times he VIOLATED that rule.  Got into a fight, shapeshifted into an eagle, flew up to get a height advantage on the attacker, dove down, and shifted into a fluffy white bunny at the last second.  With claws.  And fangs.  And a really bad attitude.  The other guy had messed up his suit after all.  The fluffy white bunny of doom, complete with indignant whisker flick, became his modis operandi after that.  He took pride in choosing the most harmless looking guises to utterly shame and defeat his foes.  And he LOVED to play the fluffy white bunny of adorableness for all the pretty girls...

The scary thing is, now that I write and sell my own stuff, I see a lot of Ash Landry in my Jack of Harts stories.
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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #88 on: 09 September 2015, 11:29:19 »
My favorite so far is a character from an (unfortunately rather short) PbP campaign a while back: Tessa Callahan

The character were all modern Earth teenagers who somehow got transported to a fantasy world, and transformed into half-human, half-monstrous form. It was a D&D game, the DM said each character had to take a race and possibly templates with a certain minimum total level adjustment, so somehow I ended up with a Half-Celestial Drow with 3 class levels of Sorcerer.

Tessa knew three spells, all connected to her backstory: Shield, Magic Missile and Feather Fall. Being new to the whole magical world, she also didn´t know she could do magic, and the spells would be triggered subconsciously. Which meant that, in the first combat encounter, she´d poke her rapier at the giant spider with very little effect until she got frustrated, lost her temper and yelled "Die already, you stupid critter!". Cue Magic Missile spell, and one dead giant spider.
Comment in the OOC thread: "Tessa wins the prize for Coolest Verbal Spell Component Ever."

Then there was the time when she got into an argument with one of the other characters, a Half-Dragon Barbarian with serious anger management issues. He´d get annoyed and shout at her; only, his player botched the Intimidate check, I rolled very high on the check to resist intimidation, so Tessa simply replied: "My parents are divorcing. They shout a lot better than you do."

A bit later, another character was admiring the half-dragon´s "shinies" a bit too much, he snaps at her, the other character starts crying. Tessa finally has enough of the half-dragon´s anger management issues and starts screaming at him about how fed up she is with "your stupid hoard and your stupid shinies and your stupid biggest-gorilla-in-the-monkey-house act". This time, I roll high on Intimidate (a +6 Charisma bonus does have its uses), the half-dragon´s player rolls very low on the resistance roll. So, the little slip of a 15 year old girl, weighing maybe 100 pounds while soaking wet, scares the 8 foot, 600 pound half-dragon who could (and at one point, did) pick her up with one hand, into shutting up.
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Re: Tell Us Your Favorite RPG Character of All Time (and/or any time)
« Reply #89 on: 09 September 2015, 13:43:29 »
I have two.

The first is Elza, my character from the GURPS campaign I run in a homebrew sci-fi/fantasy world. (It's a small group so I GM and run a character.) She's the group's stylist, fashion expert, healer, and resident necromancer*. Affable and gregarious, her hobbies include clothes shopping, manicures, raising the dead, and autopsies. Always at her side is Fred, her faithful zombie slave. It's not uncommon for me to have her gussy up the rest of the group for a ball or a meeting with the Duke, rot someone's leg off with putrefying magics, reattach a severed hand, or tear an enemy's still beating heart from their chest all in the same session. She's also vain, prideful, utterly self-confident, despises children and animals, ruthlessly Darwinian in outlook, a horrifically bad cook, refuses to to housework in any but the laziest of ways, and is hilariously and hysterically terrified of fish. She's a blast to play.

My other favorite is Leo. He's the flamboyant, bisexual elf Swordmaster my girlfriend's sister plays in our EarthDawn campaign. (I know. "Flamboyant Swordmaster" is redundant. It's Leo. That's all I can say.) He will, and has, sleep with just about anyone. We actually have to keep a list of all the towns and villages he's left a bastard child, angry spouse or parent, jilted ex-lover, or the like in so we know which to avoid or disguise him in. It's a very large list. His player's stock reaction when the group meets a new NPC is, "Can Leo try seducing them?" There's been a lot of in game humor involving him leaping out windows sans pants, seducing irate ork prison guards, getting thrown out of temples for various "indiscretions," and getting the group chased out of town by angry villagers after he attempted to woo a quarter of them at the same time. I made a special magic item for him called the Hat of Pimpery. His player squeed and laughed herself to tears when the group found it.

*In the world I built, necromancers are more akin to doctors and medical researchers than their more stereotypical fantasy portrayal. Those are liches. Undead mages don't exist in my world.
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