What I Made, What the GM Saw, What I Played

[mostly_harmless]

For an upcoming Dark Heresy game, I was blanking on ideas I had for a mind-cleansed Penal Legionnaire's background and then it dawned on me:

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[A Tad Insane]

It's from the webcomic Erin Dies Alone. Comic's okay, but those two panels just sums up the life of every high-level party face ever.

*cough*
I would say I'm not contributing to this, but that's technically no true

[Dienekes]

Well, I'm bored and reminiscing two of my favorite characters I've played. The first was just hilariously fun, the second is pure bragging rights. Also, my image posting on this site has been spotty at best, so we'll see how this goes.

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My favorite and most useless character I've ever made. Sir Squeeb, Goblin Ka-nig-hit. On these boards in a PBP all goblin game. Where everyone else was trying to make chaotic and raging loonies I thought it would be fun to make a LG goblin. Backstory, as a child the poor goblin was nearly eaten by a bear, but saved by a wandering paladin. So since then Squeeb has dedicated his life to following a knightly code.

I originally meant to play him seriously, with a few mispronunciations or misconceptions on what a knight truly was. The GM saw a cavalier and front-liner for the party. That didn't last long, a mixture of terrible rolls and poor starting stats (hard to make a goblin that focuses on strength). However, he was so optimistic and friendly with everyone. Naive, and making a lot of silly errors his accomplishments were:
being less effective in combat than his pig (named Noble Steed) he never actually rode.
Falling asleep while trying to patrol the entire village.
Fell off the Squeely Nord, a piglet that the goblins were afraid of.
Entirely missed the epic conclusion fight with an evil goblin witch because he had tripped in a swamp and fell in poo.

He was so useless, but so fun. Trying to kneel in front of the goblin king, but not knowing what to do afterwards so he just decided to sit down awkwardly. Always trying to help (and often failing). Saying "Huzzah!" and "Tally the hoes!" Ahh, so fun.

Number 2


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So on proboards a few years ago, I joined a game that was sort of a heavily modified Mutants and Masterminds game, where you could decide at character creation to be a hero, villain, or rogue. So, since I normally pick bruisers I decided to do something different and made a mind-reader with absolutely no combat abilities whatsoever who was non-affiliated with either side.

The GM straight up told me that my character would die if he ever got into a serious situation. The game was supposed to be fairly lethal. I say I'm fine with that (I had a backup character in mind) and start Arnold Roth, mild mannered mind-reader with a small position in local government.

Long story short, my character read the minds of every character he came in contact with, found out their various secrets and secret identities and blackmailed everyone to dancing to his tune, and offered them their greatest desires to do what he said. He eventually became the Comptroller of the city, and for all intents and purposes the secret leader of the villain faction and city government.

So I more or less ran the city for about a year of real time before it became really obvious the GM was having it out for me. There was one player who was controlling a character that could shoot lava or something. He and a rather generic monstrous type were the two strongest fighter types. Anyway, lava guy was getting annoyed by my character micro-managing him and telling where he could and couldn't rob. And all of a sudden, the GM started giving him more experience than everyone else, and the player spent about a month or two buffing up his Will Defense so my character could no longer read his mind. It was all pretty obvious that he was trying to usurp my character's throne. But I wanted to play it by the book, so I couldn't just have him killed without my character having some proof.

Luckily, the player was about as dumb as his character. So, when his revolt was about to go down we had a little confrontation, and he brought along a few of his lackeys in case I was going to try something. And so, when Roth couldn't read the lava guys mind anymore, he just started reading the minions. Found out about the plan, and hired the other brute to beat lava guy up for me. Had to offer him a specific heroes home address and a third of the cities cash criminal cash flow. But I had a few ideas how to get rid of him as well.

And then the day after the revolt failed, the GM and the lava guy's player just stopped showing up. This remains the only time I ever annoyed a GM into leaving their game. I'm really proud of that.

[erradin]

So some quick background: I found a nifty skill in 3.5 Manual of the Planes called Lucid Dreaming. So I made a character based on the idea that he would use his dream-walking skill for reconnaissance ...

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I will invade your dreams and learn your secrets!

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Look into my eyes...

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YOU ARE FEELING SLEEPY!

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[Nexxius]

This is my shame.

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[Inevitability]

This is my shame.

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I'm not sure I can see the story behind this. I'm not sure if I want to see the story behind this.

[Rater202]

This is my shame.

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You made a scantily clad attractive female.

GM saw a scantily clad attractive female.

You played a scantily clad attractive female.

...Not seeing it.

[Human Paragon 3]

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I made Sam Vimes, a wise, experienced city guarsdman (fighter / rogue 3.5 gestalt). DM saw him as an old guy about to retire, a'la Lethal Weapon. Ended up being Sokka, the master strategist and badass normal for a team of ridiculousy super-powered people.

[Solaris]

This is my shame.

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A high-Cha bard/dancer type who's had the entirety of the plot/in-game interaction focus around her chesticles?

[DigoDragon]

This one is for a friend of mine from a Shadowrun adventure:

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I'm not sure I can see the story behind this. I'm not sure if I want to see the story behind this.

I think the story is pretty up front.

...Not seeing it.

The key word is 'scantily'.

[Necroticplague]

I think the joke is how the camera becomes progressively more centered around her heaving chest.

[comicshorse]

This one is for a friend of mine from a Shadowrun adventure:

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Who is the third picture ?

[Dienekes]

Who is the third picture ?

Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science from the Portal franchise.
Listen, and enjoy.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science from the Portal franchise.

So your weapon of choice was combustible lemons?

[DigoDragon]

So your weapon of choice was combustible lemons?

He actually tried at one point, getting help with the dwarf rigger who had Chemistry knowledge. He succeeded.

[Nexxius]

I think the joke is how the camera becomes progressively more centered around her heaving chest.

This. ^
Then again explaining a joke makes it less funny.

New one o3o

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[runeghost]

7th Sea (flashy swashbuckling game, if anyone doesn't know) - I was trying to make a courtesan who could at least hold her own in combat, success was... mixed.

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[Nerd-o-rama]

Well, at least it's the opposite progression to Nexxius's.

[Vknight]

This is my shame.

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There is no shame here. No shame at all

[Shoggy]

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[Kelb_Panthera]

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Might want to stick a language warning on that.

[runeghost]

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A classic AD&D campaign. I rolled up a mage/thief. I was planning on playing a supporting type character who stayed away from combat, but it turned out that a high dex + the elf bonus with bows, plus how OP bows are in old AD&D, plus a couple of good rolls, meant that I was the party's most effective combatant by far.

[Zarohk]

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The first RPG I was ever in, Doctor Who Adventures in Time & Space, I made a Silurian (lizardman) entrepreneur / scientist. However I spent most of my points in charisma & hypnotism (because I thought having hypnotic abilities sounded cool), and the character had the poor impulse control trait, which the GM house-ruled as "If you say an idea, the character has to go with it". So I ended up being the party face who could convince/hypnotize into belief anyone of anything, but did things like trying to convince prison guards that we needed our weapons to restrain an evil party member and getting a critical success, which ended up with them hidden in a different cell on the other side of the fortress we were in and the like. Also, had lots of fun with people getting so drawn in by my character's presence and magnetism that they would flirt with him or just admire his voice and not care that he was a humanoid lizard.

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Playing Mutant City Blues (which is basically NCIS: X-Men), I rolled up a scientist who wanted to discover the source of superpowers and solve mysteries FOR SCIENCE! Unfortunately, in the first session I quarantined a player with a disease that makes mutants explode and yelled at people like I was House, so got branded the Mad Scientist, not the chill coroner. By the end of the game, my character was making weird infusions to give other people powers and try to grow new ones for himself.
The last image in Mohinder Suresh from Heroes, who did superpowers experimentation on himself to become a body-horror Spider-man.

[Narmoth]

Are we still doing this? Well, here's an old one

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This was an anti-paladin for a group that was supposed to be good and neutral, where he were to conceal that he had fallen. however the party turned out to care only about getting paid and never discovered he had fallen. he on the other hand still did some paladin stuff, even protecting commoners and such

[Geigan]

Man I forgot about this thread. Surprised it's still around. Might as well share a recent one from one of the longest running campaigns I've ever participated in. Kingmaker levels 1-17, and it was my first time playing Pathfinder with my group having finally migrated over from 3.5 as our main D&D system.

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-This is actually the pic I used for my character sheet, as a generic female archer. First time playing the system and we're starting at level 1. I hear Path of War is neat, so I decide to roll up a pretty basic human hawkguard warder planning to just shoot people and figure things out as I went along. Didn't even end up writing the full backstory for her until around halfway through the campaign even, that's how little I expected to be attached to the character. Turns out to be the longest running character I've ever played. Go figure.

-Turns out ranged combat can be pretty effective in pathfinder when optimized. Wings of Flying + Solar Wind + ported over Splitting Enhancement from 3.5 = murdering pretty much every encounter from on high with extreme prejudice. Personally ended the final boss while playing the Final Flash theme, irony be damned. Altogether pretty satisfying, though somewhat at the expense of my GM's ability to challenge the party conventionally. Enemy HP started noticeably ballooning artificially to keep up with the increased DPR to the point that I started having to tone it down a bit.

-Minus the romantic undertones and whole family alchemy secret backstory, Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist is pretty close even though Roy Mustang doesn't map onto our King at all. Spymaster and resident party sniper. She was basically the king's right hand woman, willing to do anything and everything to see the ambition of building a strong and stable kingdom to fruition.