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

[navar100]

Here is my current character, a Sorcerer.
He's still alive, for now.

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[Captain Six]

....Do you mind if I steal this idea and use it for my next character? That is awesome.

Go right ahead.

Since posting that image that pixie has (somehow) managed to become the party leader. She's not the strongest party member, she's a sword-and-board weapon finesse using Crusader of Ehlonna who refuses to use racial powers in combat (she's never read a story about a knight who turns invisible and shoots sleep arrows so she doesn't either) but dang it if her heart isn't in the right place. Not even the guy who has never played anything but evil characters has the heart to do it around her, leaving his drow poison master careening straight toward Chaotic Good if he's not there already.

[Teln]

My Twilight from the first Exalted game I ever played:

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[Morithias]

Here is my current character, a Sorcerer.
He's still alive, for now.

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Just promise me you won't let him acquire the vampire template.

[Calanon]

Just promise me you won't let him acquire the vampire template.

BUENO!

[Greyfeld85]

I applied to a PBP game with the promise of sandbox adventure for newly-turned gestalt vampire spawn. I thought it sounded like it could be a blast, so I made a female unarmed Swordsage with rich parents, a snobby attitude, and a rebel complex. This character's first order of business was to get back at the jerk that turned her, using any men that got in her way to further her goals. In the end, the DM saw the character as a little girl trying to play at being seductive (all NPCs miraculously were completely immune to any attempts at coercion or seduction), leaving me with no other resort but to just kill everything that so much as hinted that they might realize she was no longer human.

What I made

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What the DM saw

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What I played

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[Sith_Happens]

I'm pretty sure every factotum turns into the Doctor eventually (the ones that don't just specialize in Iaijutsu Focus, anyway).

I have a friend I need to quote that too.

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Telepath into Thrallherd with Expanded Knowledge (True Domination)... need I say more?

I KNEW I BOOKMARKED THIS FOR A REASON

Do you need a reason to bookmark that?

[navar100]

Just promise me you won't let him acquire the vampire template.

Hell no!

[Tengu_temp]

My Twilight from the first Exalted game I ever played:

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That's pretty damn awesome.

[Knight13]

First, that Eberron campaign:

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That time I played a Shaper:

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And finally, that epic campaign:

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[Beowulf DW]

First, that Eberron campaign:

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That time I played a Shaper:

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And finally, that epic campaign:

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You, sir, are awesome.

[Knight13]

Heh, thanks. I'm rather proud of those.

[Beowulf DW]

I'll find pictures eventually, but here we go:

What the GM made: A thriller-esque theological conspiracy.

What we saw: Everyone's trying to kill us.

What we played: Sengoku Basara in D&D form.

[genderlich]

My latest character was a Pathfinder monk with the Martial Artist archetype, meaning I practice unarmed combat without all the traditions and mysticism. For campaign reasons I was a mercenary/bounty hunter hired to kidnap the annoying DMPC and sell him back to his family that he ran away from. So I did that (I don't think I was supposed to succeed), then joined the evil king because he was paying me more. Completely motivated by monetary reward.

What I Made:

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What the GM Saw:

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[Felyndiira]

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[Sith_Happens]

And finally, that epic campaign:

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Please, please, please tell me that after a long and arduous battle, the BBEG finally fell to a SHINIGAMI CHOP!!!

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A lot of people seem to be playing Lelouch as of late.

How you got there from where you started took me a minute to figure out, but is actually quite simple. I'm assuming it went something like this?:

1. Make a not-Chaotic-Evil drow.
2. The DM immediately thinks "Oh great, it's Drizzt..."
3. You end up taking the fight to the Underdark, in at least somewhat evil fashion.

[Knight13]

Please, please, please tell me that after a long and arduous battle, the BBEG finally fell to a SHINIGAMI CHOP!!!

Actually, since the BBEG had perma-killed a party member that that character really liked, it was more like this:

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[GreenZ]

Had a really cool character in a high level game before...

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Chaotic Good Melee focused Alchemist/Master Chymist who could transform into a Chaotic Evil dragon when absolutely necessary or under extreme circumstances.

GM thought it'd be awesome, burning things down with acid and slicing things apart with claws and such at will.

Ended up pretty much never leaving dragon form and becoming the party's pet...

[Gamgee]

My favourite game.

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[horngeek]

My favourite game.

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...how did the first become the second, let alone the third?

[Teln]

That's pretty damn awesome.

That was my reaction when I found out exactly what having Medicine 5 meant I was capable of.

[Gamgee]

...how did the first become the second, let alone the third?

Started out as an honest Stormtrooper Sgt. on the beat. Lost some men in a routine patrol on Nar'Shada, including a patrol speeder. A big fight broke out with some big underworld boss and some good samaritans. Also there was a Jedi. Got a call to investigate a report of a Jedi. Apparently I missed the action, the bosses didn't like this. Soon I was brought in for questioning by Imperial Intelligence. I was the last man of my squad at this point. Some evidence or bribes or favors got the underworld boss to frame me. Though someone at Imperial Intel sure must have wanted it to happen as well.

They put me on leave while they investigated further, depressed at how things went south I went to the bar. Happened upon the Jedi here, attempted to run down and catch her. I came so close, but alas it wasn't enough. Ended up shooting up the bar and anger people. Killed a few petty thugs trying to collect her for the bounty. They got in my way. My weapon of choice was a hand canon.

It didn't take me long to realize that something was going wrong with the "investigation". If I went back to the precinct there were good odds I would be killed. All my Stormtrooper held ideal was crashing down in front of him. He seen the corruption before him at this point. Got called to wait on for pickup because of the incident. Had to go and report in since I was off duty while this happened.

An old and very aged clone trooper who tipped me off in the bar and talked to me swoops out of nowhere in an old and stripped down Laat Gunship painted yellow and serving as a Taxi for the two to drive. They really tip me off to the corruption and tell me it's best I go. So I leave. I wasn't dumb enough to take the chances after some ominous warning signs I might be getting a permanent vacation.

So now me and these clone troopers hold up in a an old run down slummy apartment and I wait and plan. My guy decides it's time to play the straight and narrow and go back to the base and get some answers. My real reason is to get my equipment. I felt I was the only real Stormtrooper left sticking up for what we meant. An assassin droid approaches us and notifies he needs entrance into the precinct to get intel on his next target he can only find there. That intel is on the crime lord who had a part in framing me. At this point I need answers.

We concoct a devious plan to turn me in as a prisoner hoping for bounty. My name/designation was dropped on the local news so it wasn't too far out of the imagination that people on a desperate world might turn me in for some credits. The droid will slip in ahead of us posed a protocol droid. He does this, and turns some of the defenses off. Allowing me to wander the base, but first. I'm going to meet with the top boss of the base. An agent recently transferred from Imperial Intelligence. He questions me, and he admits that all of their evidence is phony and I was doing the right thing. Tells me I've gotten involved in something a little over my pay grade and then decides to put me in jail while they decide what to do with me. Though I had a feeling that would be the end for me if they did.

So while I'm in the base and since this is so hush hush I know people aren't going to know I've been essentially discharged yet and awaiting termination. So me and my old clone pals head deep into the base. A phony alarm by our assassin droid gets a lot of people looking outside for an attack. We work quick. It came close a few times where I had to talk my way through groups of old troopers I called friends. Came close to having to kill them. (I was playing a Soldier. We don't exactly have good charisma scores or any persuasion training.)

I get into my locker, the code hasn't been changed yet. Grab my Stormtrooper gear and make my way outside acting like I'm answering the alarm. We make our way out of the base, the droid meets up with us too. He has intel on where this crime boss is located or might be located. He also now has a name. (I forgot since this game is no longer running, and it was a long time ago.)

At the very perimeter fence exit Imperial Intel guy must have spotted me because it went south. People started shooting and chasing us. So its now a mad dash for the four of us into the crowded packed markets of the world. Clones split off to go and get the Gunship Taxi since no one was interested in them. Well relatively little were chasing them. Nothing the aged vets couldn't handle.

The droid went another way, they had trouble keeping up. This meant I had most of my former friends and allies now chasing me through the streets taking pot shots at me. I make it to the edge of the platform and look down into the abyss and the flying cars. It's certain death as I hear them getting closer. I see a hover train about to fly below the platform like an underpass. So I leap, and this is almost suicidal given the velocities involved.

Against all odds my armour protects me, but I do hit hard and roll down the train several cars before getting a handhold. (I made that jump by 1 point. One less and I would have went tumbling). The Stormtroopers take a few more potshots at me but I whisk out of sight too fast. Eventually the clones collect me and we rest up.

That's my story of how a Stormtrooper turned from a renegade down on his luck. It became my goal and the assassin droid to hunt down and locate this crime boss. I would get answers, and hunt people until the end of the earth until I got the truth. I was also doing it for my squad I lost on the planet. Painted my Stormtrooper armor a blazing fiery red and black. Took mercenary jobs to get some credits. Made a name for myself all the while hunting down the crime lord.

Eventually I did become more of a deckard investigator type than a mercenary, though there was minor overlap. I specialized in jobs against my former coworkers, had to be the person to set them right. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

That is my story, all of it you need to know. The game ended before I ever did find out why they hunted me. But it was my most badass game I participated in on these forums. It lasted for almost two years. We had like 8-10 players and the GM was doing sub plots for all of us. I tied in with the Jedi and the Assassin bot. Lots died, or dropped out. So it was soon whittled down to a core of 4-5 players. Though the Assassin droid joined a little later on.

GM seen me as a mercenary because sometimes I could get a little emotionally invested in my targets/arguments. And I got betrayed by the organization I so faithfully served.

Then again I also had impeccable detective skills for someone with no skills in those things. It was though, but I managed. While a lot of people would persuade/trick/lie their way past I could offer help to do jobs for people instead. Benefit of being trained by the best. Stormtroopers and later some tips from the clones.

I came so close to catching that Jedi player. It was the difference between 4 hit points where I finally had to let her get away. But at the end of the day by the time i fought my way to her I didn't have enough HP to fight her.

Suffice to say it was an awesome game. I had a lot of fun in game philosoraptoring my role in the storm troopers, ethics of terror tactics to keep populace in line, and other conundrums of coming to realize I had served one of the most vile organizations the galaxy ever seen.

[horngeek]

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I'm pretty sure I came into that game as a mandalorian looking for her armor.

Then it died.

[Gamgee]

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I'm pretty sure I came into that game as a mandalorian looking for her armor.

Then it died.

Ah right, it was such an amazing game. I wish it could have kept going. I was about to ask if we could take it into skype or something to speed things up. It was a really good game.

[eyeofsaulot]

From a rather short-lived campaign:

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I made a Modron rogue that my DM feared would be some kind of killing machine because of the absurd number of attacks he was able to make in a round. However, the party also had a half-dragon/half-troll barbarian that utterly overshadowed any combative power my Modron may have had. Because of the barbarian, subtlety never was an aspect of the party's modus operandi. Ultimately, my character's role was reduced to nothing and I never even had a chance to develop a personality for the poor fella, rendering it a mere cube.

[dsmiles]

Anyone mind if I join the party?

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[Darthteej]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...noyingguy.jpg/

[Skaven]

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You throw a few tactically placed fireballs and the DM thinks you're a pyro nutter.

[Serpentine]

What I made:

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Deborah "Debbie" Dobson is the character I've just, sadly, finished playing in a... whatever the human version of the White Wolf games is called. Her premise was that she is a wanna-be serious investigative reporter who was the only survivor of a "slasher movie" - all her crew were picked off and slaughtered by an unknown assailant. I wanted her to be more intelligent than she looked but hard to take seriously (she's a natural blonde who dyes her hair black in an effort to seem more "serious"), ambitious and vain.
The GM saw just a blonde bimbo victim - and unfortunately the fact it turns out I'm pretty awful at the quick-thinking that's required for the acting-out of roleplay expected in a White Wolf game, it was pretty understandable :/
In the very last game I was playing this character, the GM revealed the tweest that the character I'd been playing was actually the fetch of a Changeling. Jessica Rabbit is, I think, a pretty good guide to what her natural form looks like: all the standards of beauty, the large eyes and red lips and narrow waist and all that, are exaggerated to the point where she's as grotesque as she is beautiful. She was last seen making out with the only remaining normal human party member to feed on his desire for her (he didn't seem to be complaining...).

The first game I played with her, I was ready to kill her off and make a new character. Now, I'm really sad I have to leave the game

[Knight13]

Forget all these Lelouch characters, I've got a better one:

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