History Characters / PuffinForest

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: "Micromanaging Bureaucrat-Blacksmith" is remarkably close to his canonical portrayal in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:
** Ben, who seemingly has never read the Literature/TheSilmarillion, needed to make up a character sheet for Sauron. He ended up making him an evil, micromanaging blacksmith bureaucrat. All traits which could canonically apply to Sauron.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Spurred on by Strahd, she thought for a while that she was in a tragic romance about two lovers cursed by vindictive gods to forever be apart. She eventually realizes that she's in a gothic horror story, the romance is entirely one-sided and there is a ''very'' good reason for why Strahd is cursed.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: Because of her deal with Mavaras she is cursed to never be able to return to Forgotten Realms.]]

* AffablyEvil: Despite being a lich and creating undead, he is quite friendly to those he consider to be his minions. This actually becomes a plot point, as [[spoiler: the party decides not to kill him at the end because he's so likable]]. That does not mean he's not a Lich who consumes souls to feed his immortality, however.

* SweetTooth: He has an enchanted back that yields an infinite amount of candy. When asked why he has this if he hates children, he states that he likes to eat candy. [[spoiler: He gives it to Cali as payment for clearing his lair, as he offered to pay the party with his magical items and that's the one she wanted]].

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: She is killed rather quickly after her first apparence, and taken by Strahd to become a vampire spawn. Subverted when van Richten makes a deal to get her back.]]

A legendary wizard from [[TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}} Oerth]] whom Ben's party finds [[spoiler: in Barovia]]

* OhCrap: Once he realizes that [[spoiler: Shenani-Guys had unwittingly lead Strahd right to his doorstep]].
* PrecursorHeroes: Downplayed, he tried [[spoiler: to take down Strahd]] a year before Ben's party arrived. He failed.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: In final episode turns out Strahd secretly cast Banishment on him and sent him back to Oerth and then took his place right before the final battle.]]
* ShatteredSanity: [[spoiler: His fight with Strahd]] has left him a mentally broken, but with [[spoiler: Van Richten's]] help he got better.
* WalkingSpoiler: His existence is a huge spoiler for [[spoiler: Curse of Strahd]] because [[spoiler: the module initially leads you to believe the wizard who fought Strahd is dead and doesn't tell you it is one of most iconic wizards of the entire franchise.]]
* WorfHadTheFlu: He participates in battle [[spoiler: Against Strahd]] but admits he is not gonna be much help so soon after coming to his senses and without his spellbook.

* ObviouslyEvil: The players figure out almost immediately that Gavriel is actually a villain. Averted, since he never really did anything to warrant suspicion.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants to destroy the infernal legions of the Nine Hells, something that definitely would benefit both angels and mortals in the short term. However, there's no telling what chaos he might open the doors to if Hell goes out of the picture. If the Blood War is a thing in Ben's setting, the destruction of Hell would likely result in the literally infinite hordes of the Abyss sweeping across the multiverse.
* WingedHumanoid: He's an angel.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Not a single townsperson misses him [[spoiler: after Lolth's Cat eats him]].

* CantArgueWithElves: He's an Elf, and it's hinted that he believes this; despite governing a town of humans he mocks their shorter lifespan. He later turns out to be evil, though, and by the end of the game he's defeated by the party [[spoiler: and killed by Lolth's Cat.]]
* EatenAlive: He subjected a number of his citizens to this every winter solstice for three years, sacrificing them to Lolth's Cat. [[spoiler: He himself dies in this way, though Zeebo knocks him out first.]]

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: As of Part 8 the party is concerned why he still let them live [[spoiler: only to too late realize he wanted them to lead him to other people on his kill list that he couldn't track.]]

* CreateYourOwnHero: [[spoiler: Because he killed Esmeralda, turned her into a vampire spawn and let Rahadin take her to kill Shenani-Guys when they were in Amber Temple with Van Richten, Van Richten was able to get her blessed by Vampyr and let himself be killed by her, thus making her fulfill all requirements to make her a true vampire. This made her a much bigger threat to Strahd than she was before.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: While by default the [[spoiler: massacre at the church of St. Andrews]] can happen in the campaign if players don't prevent it, in the one Ben played Strahd ordered it because the party didn't drop everything to immediately answer his invitation. That he didn't even put a date on.
* DivideAndConquer: Possibly tried to invoke this in Part 9 on [[spoiler: if he really was going to let everyone go if Shenani-Guys ask him to spare live of any single specific person, he probably was banking on the very act of choice in the first place making others distrust the party and destroy any chance of his enemies creating an alliance, letting him hunt them down one by one. Even if Garo took a third option, this was partially successful and Werewolves and Ismark left the party.]]

* EntitledToHaveYou: His attitude towards Irena - he believes he is entitled to her hand because [[spoiler: she is a reincarnation of Tatyana]].
* EvilIsPetty: See above, he had a [[spoiler: whole church massacred]] because the party refused his invitation.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Pretended to be Vasili, a friendly guy supplying Shenani-guys with magic items, to make the party put on several cursed items.]]
** [[spoiler: In the finale he does it again, banishing Mordekainen and secretly taking his place to lead the party into a trap.]]
* FightingAShadow: [[spoiler: When it looks like Krusk killed him after a serious battle that almost ended in a TPK, real Strahd arrives moments later to reveal it was only a Simulacrum, basically a HardLight BodyDouble]].

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* AGodAmI: See BadassBoast bellow.

* TheDragon: He's just a servant to Acererak.

* SssnakeTalk: A given.

* BladeOnAStick: He's a glaive.

* WhipItGood: Wields a whip.

* StopHelpingMe: His useless warnings make the party certainly think this.

\* WideEyedIdealist: Even after the party treats him like shit, even after he gets the crap beaten out of him...twice...the kid is still an optimist and still heralded as the eponymous hero of Parnast.

[[folder: Asiago]]

[[folder: Cordelia]]

[[folder: Valus Samurai]]

[[folder: Valus Baron]]

[[folder: Lord Dreadbone]]

[[folder: Tortle Wizard]]

[[folder: Mordenkainen]]

[[folder: Antonio de Castilian Maximiliano]]

[[folder: Mayor Rowan]]

[[folder: Strahd von Zarovich]]

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Halfway through explaining the trap, he realized that he, Michele, and [[CoolPet Bernard]] were in the area of effect.

* WhatAnIdiot: Thought a child's sandpit was an adequate hiding spot for the Mourneblade. In his defense, he was high at the time.

* BalefulPolymorph: When the group gets transported to New York City (as in, the real world), he becomes a human for the duration of the trip.

* BalefulPolymorph: He was accidentally turned into a human at the end of the campaign.

* BalefulPolymorph: He casts a curse to turn all children who enter his mausoleum into whatever monster they're dressed as. [[DidntThinkthisThrough This backfires as the children proceed to overrun his lair and are too powerful to shoo out]].

* BalefulPolymorph: Gets turned into a cat by Asiago.

* ContractualBossImmunity: SubvertedTrope, Ben is very surprised to discover that Krakens in 5th edition D&D don't have anything to protect them from BalefulPolymorph.

* BalefulPolymorph: The players defeated him by turning him into a potted plant.

* IllBoy: Kind of. His body is covered in boils and blisters, which is why he struck up a deal with Acererak to find a cure. This sickness is implied to be the reason he's so deranged.

* NiceHat: Michele is wearing one in the new campaign, because Will thought that's a substitute for character development. Ben informs him that it is not.

* NiceHat: He's always wearing the same beanie type hat he's seen wearing on the cover of his book.

* NiceHat / CoolMask: [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]]. Whatever the heck those pointy green things on the sides of his face even ''are'', they look pretty cool.

* NiceHat: She's depicted wearing a purple wizard's hat.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: ''Hoo boy.'' Ben came to realize when he attended the Stream of Many Eyes that because he never once showed his face in any of his videos (at that point, anyway), nobody could recognize him.

%%* DidNotThinkThisThrough: HOO BOY.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Ben came to realize when he attended the Stream of Many Eyes that because he never once showed his face in any of his videos (at that point, anyway), nobody could recognize him.

* FatIdiot: Given Ben's art style, he looks like a walking oval, and he isn't very smart.

* {{Corpsing}}: He has a habit of doing this when he's not supposed to break character, like the time he ruined a friend's Star Wars game by making a dick joke at the GM's description of the players' lightsabers.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: HOO BOY.

* RantInducingSlight: [[spoiler: Emilio's plan to attack Vallaki and turn inhabitants into werewolves]] sets him off on a rant where he lists everything wrong with it. Some of it is due to Boshack's pragmatism [[spoiler: freshly turned werewolves go feral and cannot be controlled and even if they weren't these people had no desire to fight Strahd, are lead by his follower and the party would have just attacked their town, making it more likely they'll side with Strahd over them]] and some stems from his own backstory.

* AccidentallyAccurate:

** When Ben got to play in an evil The Lord of the Rings campaign where the player characters were villains brought back from the dead, he eagerly chose to play as Sauron only to realize that he had no idea how to roleplay as Sauron or what Sauron's abilities were and thus he had to make up Sauron's personality and guess his abilities, which may have explained why nobody else picked Sauron. ("Evil, Micromanaging Blacksmith" [[AccidentallyAccurate is remarkably close]], though).

* AccidentallyAccurate: "Micromanaging Bureaucrat-Blacksmith" is remarkably close to his canonical portrayal in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''.

* WhatAnIdiot: Thought a child's sandpit was an adequate hiding spot for the Mourneblade. In his defense, he was high at the time.