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Thread: Strangest refluffs?
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2011-08-21, 02:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
I had a homebrew world that refluff most of the races.
My favourite were the elves and the gnomes.
The elves became hyperactive, agoraphobic, overly twitchty city-dwellers with a hair-trigger temper and no sense of personal space.
Gnomes required one small change to the stats, instead of talking to burrowing animals they talked to flying animals. They then lived in giant airborn fortresses that are built around lobotimised soarwhales. Large stores of food are grown in massive hydroponic farms built near the surfaces. Gnomes can spend their lives without leaving the safety of their fortress. Immense hangars store their flocks of Giant Eagles/Owls and Dire Bats which their scores of aerial paladins, fighters and rangers ride into battle.
Oh, and they all act like stereotyipcal WWI British fighter pilots. Along with referring to all Medium-sized races as "Biggles."
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2011-08-21, 05:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
GENERATION ([-0.051730 + (-0.674245 + 1.206612 c) i - 1.117584 c + c^2] + c)^2 + c. If this is the first time you see this copy it into your signature, square the generation and add c. Fractal experiment.
Though noone was gonna pick it up, eh?
Squaring that lot is going to take a while.
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2011-08-21, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-21, 06:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Attempt at converting the characters of Touhou to the world of D&D 3.5: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181050
Attempt at converting Berserk characters to 3.5: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186155
Attempt at converting Geralt of Rivia to 3.5:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=208270
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2011-08-21, 11:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
Londo Calrissian.
Though, we actually haven't used him in a game yet.
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2011-08-22, 04:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-22, 07:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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I HAVE A LIST!
- Ardent -> Valkyrie fancy powers divine junk going on rather than psionics.
- Factotum -> Android, inspiration points into CPU and Opportunistic Piety turned into necromantic countermeasures or healing nano-machines. Totally rad.
- Steampunk elves adapt to technology and rock out with steam guns instead of bows.
- Spiked Chain -> Battle Accordion.
A wizard (of fantasy literature) did it!
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2011-08-22, 08:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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All things begin with drunken debauchery.
- Owlbears/Griffins? Created by drunken Wizard(s).
- Humans? Created by drunk demon (Its semi unique, humans are of demonic origin, thus are treated like demons).
- Elfs? Created by drunken Dwarves.
- Dwarfs? Created by drunken Elfs.
- Gods? created themselves in a drunken stupor.
- Etc.
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2011-08-22, 09:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ponified Remilia avatar by Kurien.
Attempt at converting the characters of Touhou to the world of D&D 3.5: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181050
Attempt at converting Berserk characters to 3.5: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186155
Attempt at converting Geralt of Rivia to 3.5:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=208270
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2011-08-22, 12:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Londo? Calrissian?
But the cross-class skills!
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2011-08-22, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Indeed. It's Londo replacing Lando. The easiest way to picture it is imagining Londo saying "Han, you old smuggler!" It actually works on a ton of levels because Lando and Londo are very, very similar characters, including the sort of things they say (e.g. Londo too, has a deal that is getting worse all the time). They just look radically different and have very different inflections.
We have someone in our group who can do the voice really well. It's hilarious. Again, haven't had a chance to implement it in a game yet.Last edited by Drachasor; 2011-08-22 at 12:39 PM.
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2011-08-22, 01:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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I once played a warforged psion (shaper), in the same party as a dragonborn warforged psychic warrior and an elan something-or-other.
The fluff was that he was a reclusive gnome artificer who had built a hidden mountain base filled with an army of constructs, as well as a suit of power armor he never took off (to the point where his true race was unknown). His constructs used less magic and more mechanism than most (he had no crafting feats, and purchased them rather than expending XP on construction), but required a strange crystal to function. His base contained an enormous but immobile crystal which powered the constructs within, and he could summon the constructs there to his side until their power reserves ran out (astral construct). He went out into the world looking for details on the constructs of ancient civilisations, or at least more crystals.
The psychic warrior PC was a construct he had equipped with its own crystal, making it independent. The elan was an ally of his who had become an aberration by replacing parts of his body with crystal to overcome the weakness of the flesh. The DM referred to the group as "The Children of Daedalus".Last edited by Prime32; 2011-08-22 at 01:24 PM.
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2011-08-22, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
Handmaiden Devil (Pathfinder) into a Dragon Age'esque Broodmother is, I think, the weirdest refluff I've considered.
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2011-08-22, 04:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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I must use this.
My refluffs tend to be only partially refluffed, but they can get weird on occasion...
Had a Goblin OA Shaman (they have two actual spirit guides that each grant them a domain). One of his guides was Ruuka, the spirit of one of his former clansgoblins, supposedly high up, but never informing Riffraff (my character's name) exactly what he did. The other was Granite, a little pebble that he carried around in his pocket. Granite never communicated with Riffraff in any way, but it was Riffraff's favorite spirit guide. Unfortunately I never really got to play him really, the game died out before much happened.
I've had weirder, but that's all I can think of right now...Game systems I play: DnD 3.5, Pathfinder, Star Wars Saga, Vampire: The Masquerade, Dungeons: The Dragoning, AFBME, Atomic Highway, Dark Heresy, Legend of the 5 Rings 4E, MAID and... EQRPG... Does anyone actually play that?
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2011-08-22, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
I once had a player who was caught in a shipwreck and rescued by a force she called "The Kraken," and wandered the land with spectacular tentacular hair as its priest wrapped in anchor chains with a wedge anchor strapped to her back. Unfortunately, exposing people to the Kraken's Light caused some pretty bad effects, since most people (i.e. the living) weren't helped by it at all, suffering madness, a drain on their body, or worse, so converts were few. Though, when she showed it to undead, they immediately understood what it meant.
Azurin Dread Necromancer. Chain Shirt, Greataxe, Spiked Chain, Aberrant Feats, Tomb-Tainted Soul.
Other ones I've seen were a boy whose parents wished for a son to a fey king and were given one out of the rocks and trees (warforged; in fact, I've seen warforged used to represent a lot of stone people/homonculi/animated wand stick figures/etc.), mundane equipment turned into symbiotes (by doubling its "cost"), formians used to represent orcs and their natural corruption of the nearby landscape, and one of my favorites, a shapechanger druid tiefling with fiendish feats and the spontaneous spell variant to represent a woman with a connection to an eldritch horror (entangle made hands spring up from underground, the hunter form was a three-legged eyeless dog, etc.).
Also, every time I've seen the Shape Soulmeld feat it represents something else, from the necromantic energies someone naturally exudes to someone's satsui manifested as a literal weapon with which to cut people.
Oh, and while it's not a real refluff, I had a bard once in that same high seas campaign with the kraken girl who started playing Captain Dan riffs for his bardic music... this made me alter the campaign flavor to play up the "pirates with modern urban and gang culture" aspect. It was fun as hell. Especially because I got to name enemy groups like Band of the Bloody Slash and Three-Bladed Lotus.Last edited by hiryuu; 2011-08-22 at 06:09 PM.
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2011-08-22, 07:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Imagine if all real-world conversations were like internet D&D conversations...
Protip: DnD is an incredibly social game played by some of the most socially inept people on the planet - Lev
I read this somewhere and I stick to it: "I would rather play a bad system with my friends than a great system with nobody". - Trevlac
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2011-08-22, 11:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-22, 11:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-22, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-23, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
Elf-Like Fey (like nymphs and ragewalkers, and some little other) + Eladrin + Azata (pathfinder) are all fey, instead of outsider. They are the Sidhe hosts, the nobles of the Fey.
Angels (together with protectar) are servants of all gods, and so come in different shapes and aligments.
Daemons (pathfinder) all have humanoide appearances and are the fallen angels, angels who don't bow to manking and turned from the gods, in order to cause pain and suffering to the dirty humanoids.
Color does not define dragon aligment. Yay, killing gold dragons.
Most giants, humanoids, aberrations and magical beasts that I don't REALLY want to put in my setting / are too random / may be even cool, but there's another creature that has the same niche / whatever, gain a dragonblood subtype, appearance similar to some kind of dragon, and become Draconic Spawn (we dont have tiamat).
Oh, and Yuan-ti are created by the sarrukh, so there's a LOT of diversity: All basic yuan-ti have the "classical yuan-ti body" of the abominations (with tail instead of legs and snake head), and use the half-blood statistics + any template I care to add, with anything, really anything: Fire breath + resistance to fire / winged / frost breath and fur / whatever. The sarrukh created dozens of dozens of specialized races.
And those yuan-ti thinglings from SoX are born from a mammal woman, when yuan-ti corrupt the baby in the womb and it splits into 6 small snakelings that run for the nearest yuan-ti when born, then later grow arms. Very deformed (http://diegobastet.deviantart.com/ar...n-Ti-115548468), dumb, in eternal pain, and used as cannon fodder.Last edited by DiBastet; 2011-08-23 at 01:23 PM.
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2011-08-23, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-23, 01:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-23, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm, in a 4E game I took alligators (or maybe it was crocs) and used them for giant ants (might of made a modification or two).
I believe I took wolves and turned them into monkey-things in an Arcana Unearthed game. I was mean and gave them improved trip too. My group liked combat that made them have to change their tactics. The giant decided to just stay on the ground and take the penalties -- the PCs were tough enough to handle that.
Hmm, these aren't that strange though.Last edited by Drachasor; 2011-08-23 at 01:30 PM.
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2011-08-23, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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melee Warlock---> Jedi
Eldritch Glaive--> Lightsaber
Repelling Blast--> Force Push
Charm-->"These aren't thedroidselves your looking for"
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2011-08-23, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-23, 07:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-23, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-24, 02:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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We are not standing on the shoulders of giants, but on very tall tower of other dwarves.
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2011-08-24, 07:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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I don't know if this qualifies for 'strange' but...
I just helped a player from my summer group create a Big Daddy ala Bioshock
Refluffing a warforged with adamantie body + the homebrew "warforged features" powerful build. and a short-hafted fleshgrinding harpoon for a drill.