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2016-12-07, 02:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-12-07, 03:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Interesting ways to roleplay classes.
Homebrewers Extended Signature Yep, no more room in my actual signature ... on the bright side though, now I have room for a cool quote!If I had one ...
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2016-12-07, 03:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2013
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Re: Interesting ways to roleplay classes.
Old news, to some, but it's still a good point. Don't let the class dictate your character's personality. Don't even let your alignment, race, or ability scores do that. Synergies and conflicts can be balanced and equally interesting.
I usually (try to) see class(es) as a set of things the character can do, rather than what they are. For this reason, I often prefer "fluff-neutral" classes, like fighter over barbarian.
If you want to be original, which is not necessarily fun but anyway, I think you need to avoid the clichés AND the negatives of said clichés. The cliché half-orc is the aggressive brute. The negative is the sophisticated gentleman. Original lies somewhere in-between. Will it be interesting or just bland? I think that depends on the player and the remaining table. Too subtle characteristics risk going unnoticed. Extremes are easier to play and notice.
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2016-12-07, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Interesting ways to roleplay classes.
Well, my best would be Clopin Silk, elven rogue. I posted a much more complete version of the character as one of my early threads, so I'll give you the basics here; Clopin was born Cassius Valis, a member of a powerful aristocratic family. He hated his family's arrogant, highly racist views, and resented the fact that his own parents only ever cared about him inasmuch as he could be a valuable political asset. He ended up conning his family into exiling him (long story, but it's why his ears have some ugly scars on them), and struck out on his own, becoming a circus acrobat until the circus closed, and then becoming a 'problem solver' for the villages he traveled to. He values freedom highly, falls in love with some aspect of every culture he encounters, and his loathing of politics is matched only by his innate talent for it, albeit on the reduced scale of buttering individual people up and turning them against each other. He naturally distrusts aristocrats, and will, when faced with especially complex moral decisions, will try to work out what Tiberius (who he never refers to as his father and, if you believe him, never has) would do, and does the opposite.
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2016-12-07, 07:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Interesting ways to roleplay classes.
The character I'm planning on playing for my first campaign is Zhonthi Donamet, a Gnome Sorcerer. The 4th child of a minor Gnomish noble, he grew up without wanting for much but also, knowing full well his options were rather limited. He wasn't first born so he wouldn't inherit, the middle children, his oldest sister and second oldest brother were in business and had no desire to have him join them. Not only did they not get along but the two had plenty of nieces and nephews they could conscript if need be. Zhonem has no real discipline for scholastic wizardry (though he clearly has the mind for it) and is too much of a hedonist for the priesthood. Now, as a young adult he's a predominantly lazy, well read layabout (it's not that he dislike's reading, he just finds books on magic incredibly tedious though he'll read almost anything else) and his family had mostly consigned themselves to him being the lazy uncle the rest of his life. That is, until he developed a talent for sorcery and then they didn't know what to do with him. It just gave him far too great a license for mischief, even by gnomish standards. They encouraged him to join an Adventuring party both to give his life some direction and get him out of their hair to somewhere his impulses toward mischief could be channeled effectively.
He loves meeting new people going to parties and generally makes decisions based on what he thinks will be fun. He's not directly malicious but doesn't always think things through and accidental chaos can ensue. His hearts generally in the right place, his ethics are just a bit... questionable.Last edited by Roan_Spence; 2016-12-07 at 07:29 AM.
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2016-12-07, 01:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2011
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Re: Interesting ways to roleplay classes.
There are more ways to play a paladin.
Originally Posted by MaxusLast edited by Dragonexx; 2016-12-07 at 01:32 PM.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon D20: A system designed for adventuring in a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon world.
The Review/Analysis Thread: In-depth reviews of various games and RPG products.
The New/Redone Monsters Thread: Taking bad or bland monsters and making them more interesting and challenging.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Realms of Myth: In the world of monsters, Winda and Wynn go on an "epic" journey to find the legendary Dark Magician.
Keys to the Contract: A crossover between Madoka and Kingdom Hearts.
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2016-12-07, 04:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Interesting ways to roleplay classes.
A druid who believes that the various "intelligent races" are all a part of nature, too, and that their cities are little different from the constructions of ant colonies.
As such, he dwells within one, and manipulates everyone within it like a mafia don or a political shadow-ruler. See, a garden is an expression of nature, and this is his garden. And all of the people living in it are part of it, to be pruned and tended and nurtured and made beautifully manifest representations of nature's wonders.
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2016-12-07, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-12-07, 08:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-12-08, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-12-08, 05:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Interesting ways to roleplay classes.
I'm probably going to get garbage thrown at me, but I've always wanted to play the Paladin of Chaos.
Assign a different emotion to every number on a d10 and every time you enter into a social encounter, roll a d20 and the d10 and have your character embody the rolled emotion to the d20th craziness degree.
So like, let's say a peasants beseeches you for aid and you roll 18 and anger- you then proceed to flip out at the peasant and beat him to a pulp for the audacicty.
Joy, sadness, humor, paranoia- the fun never ends!
Adding mechanics to roleplay(phobias, schizophrenia, nervous tics, OCD, PTSD after a near-death experience) is always fun. My table enjoys it anyway.
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2016-12-08, 05:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
Re: Interesting ways to roleplay classes.
one of my favorite PFS characters is Tiax.
Yes, THAT Tiax, the one from Baldurs Gate. Except I made him a human monk, and play him the same as Tiax.
He's so absurd, it's hilarious. He tries to grapple anyone who tries to thwart his rule.
He succeeded at grappling a zombie dragon... the highlight of his career.