Characters you'd Like to Play

Scion of the End of Sunday.

Wearer of the Extended Gag.

He Who Smites the Mounts of the Dead.

So Yeah. Characters I'd like to play.

I haven't played D&D in years, but we're considering a 3.5 Ptolus campaign, and I was considering a character that started as a Rogue, got up to level 3 (taking unarmed combat feats), then switched to Sorcerer long enough to get second level touch-based attacks, protection, or physical feat-type spells, and finally start taking Monk levels, resulting in a stealthy magical kung fu guy who can use lightning punches.

I also had an idea to play a Demon The Fallen Malefactor chef, and create dishes that are simply magical. I could make any dish 100% more flavorful (or spicy for that matter... turning jalepenos into deadly weapons) or reduce the caloric content of a dish by 50%. Wine could be twice as intoxicating. Really, the options for a kickass demonic chef are endless. He could even be Iron Legion, and be on a somehow appropriate show.

In my friend's custom World of Badass Steampunk setting, I've always wanted to play a Jagermonster.

I had an awesome idea combining class and epic destiny: Necromancer Hordemaster. He'd have an army of undead, and when he dies his soul enters the strongest of his army with all his power.

New Abyssals: a circle of renegades, all with 3+ dots in Ride and a 3-dot plasmic steed familiar. This is the reason you a) should b) shouldn't [delete according to personal taste] hatch character ideas under the influence of Through the Fire and the Flames.

Should.

I'd love to find a game where I feel the tone is right for a metal Exalt. Not an Alchemical, a dude with a guitar, hair about the length of mine, and Solar or Abyssal Death By Performance Charms...

I usually play spellcasters, but I've been toying with the idea of building a melee wizard-killer. Take Mage Slayer so spellcasting always provokes attacks of opportunity, and deal big damage so they have no chance of making the concentration check. I'm still looking at class combinations to try to figure out the most effective build, but I do have the character's name... "Malice Maleficarum".

New idea: A telekinetic psion with the Dreamwalker path.

Who is it?

(Yes, I want you to guess.)

edited 19th Sep '10 12:38:52 PM by AweStriker

An Adam Jensen Expy. Too bad the point cost of building such a character is through the roof (basic implants only cost around 32 points/32k nuyen, and that's not counting the enhancements).

I don't actually have Exalted, but reading the background I came up with a mortal who led a doomed resistance movement against a Solar who conquered his city. He developed an intense hatred for all superpowered creatures, launched a suicidal attack on the Solar... and Exalted as a Solar. His views haven't changed, and his motivation is "liberate humanity from all supernatural tyranny". I expect he does a lot of artifact crafting. His name is One Hundred Million of Us.

There's also Excessively Polysyllabic Sobriquet, but that's just a joke name.

In D&D, there's the warforged paladin of the Raven Queen, Eighty-Six. He's a creationist, meaning he thinks he was created directly by the goddess, not by magical tech.

I'd love to play a Goliath Barbarian as an expy of The Ultimate Warrior, mainly so I could have fun and try and come up with batshit insane rants on the spot.

But, sadly, I do not have the PHB 2

edited 20th Sep '10 9:58:01 PM by Dreamer

Exalted idea I probably wouldn't use: twin sisters who Exalt as Sidereals - one of Serenity, one of Battles. One Sid, Two Sid, Red Sid, Blue Sid.

Yeah, I need to get more sleep.

My favourite joke Alchemical name- Excessively Pretentious Designation.

^^^ Get Insider, it's like eight dollars and has all the PHB 2 information.

Had a Sidereal idea (works best as a fairly Elder one) on the way home from a brass band rehearsal last night.

Chosen of Journeys. You mostly see him sweeping the Golden Barque of the Heavens with a quiet smile on his face- new Sidereals sometimes assume he's a minor god, which can lead to amusing scenes... He's one of the Fellowship's better maartial artists, too, and uses the same "sweeper" look to get where he needs to be to guide events along unobtrusively.

Yeah. It's a Lu Tze Expy.

I want to play a Seer of the Throne from the Paternoster Tetrarchy in a villain's campaign.

"I believe in the Exarchs..."

Warforged paladin. Named Lantern, or Lighthouse or something along those lines..

What are the chances of you posting that right before I get in with the post saying "Woot, looks like my Knight-style Orichalcum Caste is a go... in an alternate setting where it makes perfect sense for him to be the functional equivalent of a starfighter pilot"?

Oh, and I think his name's including the word "Torchbearer".

Coincidence...?

I'd like to play a Lawful Good version of Raistlin from Dragon Lance. Still a prick, still a jackass, but a good guy.

" Yes, I'll save you, you dumbass damsel!"

It makes me smile

I've had time to sit around and think of my ultimate gestalt DnD character, and one concept that wandered into my mind was this: Lawful Neutral Monk/Druid. Would probably go with Warshaper or Master of Many Forms as a prestige class.

This could be a headache for DMs, because it raises questions about whether or not you would get monk-specific unarmed strike bonuses while using wild shape, among other issues. Either way, I think it'd be a force to be reckoned with.

A Steve Irwin type brawler fighter who grabs and holds down enemies. "Croikey, this dragon's a bit stroppy!"

edited 29th Sep '10 4:10:39 PM by EgregiousEric

I'm about to try to convince my DM to let me run a bard trained in the orcish style. The thuds of the sling he carries in his right hand are timed to the beats of the drum he whacks with his left. (He has the drum strapped to his belt so he doesn't drop it.)

A while ago there was an article about Gandalf being a 5th level magic user. I stumbled upon it at about the same time I started looking over the 4e rules. No, I figured, he wasn't 5th level and generally not primarily a magic user. So I put my mind to it and concluded that he was more of an epic level bard multiclassed as an invoker. This was based on three points. First is that many of the powers he displayed in the books are now rituals, rather than wizard spells, and he could cast them as a bard. Secondly is that most of what he does is bard like: rousing the troops, looking up lore. Not to mention kicking ass with his sword which a bard can do with a high charisma. Third, from the movie, is the light blast that drives away the Nazgul as Faramir and his troops retreat (there are a number of possible invoker spells).

The two things that do not compute are his use of light in the mines of Moria, and when he blew a "smoke ship" in the movie, both of which seem to be cantrips that are not available to non-wizards.

I think it would be interestin got play a Gandalf-like character with these sorts of parameters.

I bet you could get Light from a magic item, but the smoke ship is Cloud Chariot, which is a high-level utility spell for clerics.

Oh, yes, and I wanted to run two characters: A luchador (brawler fighter) who needs no further description and a half-orc Stone Fist monk who's a bar fighting master.

edited 22nd Nov '10 8:31:53 PM by Magus

Actually got the bard, though he's somewhat limited in his ability to attack while playing. I'm now thinking of various ideas for what characters to use when he gets killed or retired, and I'm trying to cover several different classes since I don't know what the party composition will be like by then. So far I've got:

• A halfling rogue who idolizes fighters, but who has pathetically low STR and is forced to rely on what she views as dirty tricks to fight. (Weapon Finesse is handy here.)

• A half-orc blight druid who empathizes with vermin because most people treat him like vermin. He seeks to defend not just nature, but also other sentient beings who have been downtrodden by society.

• A human paladin, fourth in a line of paladins, who as an irresponsible youth was taken to a powerful mage and forcibly geased to be Lawful Good so as not to disgrace the order. He now wants to remove the geas, because he fears that he won't go to a good afterlife unless he can be good on his own merits.

• My personal favorite, a gnome "aristocrat" who was the only one in charge of the fortune of one of the richest merchant families in the setting, because he and his underage nephew are the last survivors of that family (the rest having died from either assassination or overwork.) Completely uninterested in continuing the business, he left it all in the hands of assistants, not realizing that many of them were incompetent or stealing from the till. Instead, having seen a malfunctioning security golem crush an unfortunate guard, he put all his efforts into constructing a new sort of golem—[one that a gnome could control from inside. He never even tracked the gold he'd spent, always calling for more from "the vault" when he needed to buy new components. At last the day came when he prepared to negotiate the price for the last part he needed, and he called for the money from the vault—and his butler informed him that the last of the money had just gone to pay the staff's wages, and since it looked like no more money would appear there, they'd all be leaving now. Humiliated by his own foolishness, and aware that at such a cost the golems could never be mass-produced, he decided the only thing to do was to get into that golem himself and, as a mercenary, earn back every gold coin he'd lost—not for himself, but for the sake of his nephew. (In combat, he's a medium-sized metallic, helmeted figure. He's moderately well-armored, and capable of augmenting that with armor built for medium-sized creatures, as well as capable of using many weapons. In other words, he's a barbarian of the "invulnerable rager" archetype. And yes, I will need DM permission for this.)

Edit: And yet I can never remember whether he's a gnome or a halfling . . .

edited 23rd Nov '10 12:03:34 AM by feotakahari