Characters you'd Like to Play

Silver Age Batman in D&D. Batmobile is replaced by a Dire Bat. Robin is some sort of bird-man attained through the Leadership feat.

Pathfinder or D&D 3.5: A showy, flamboyant bard who uses illusions to make changes to her appearance. (Not for disguise purposes, mind you; just for fun.)

Any system that allows it (Pathfinder and GURPS would be my top choices): A genki girl necromancer who's always saying creepy morbid things in an incongruously cheery tone. And she'd have twintails.

So, a Nightmare Fetishist?

Pretty much. She'd talk about how beautiful things like morning glories and hissing centipedes thrive in rot and decay, and about how she'd kind of like to die and get resurrected just to see what it's like.

edited 13th Jun '11 7:49:55 PM by FarseerLolotea

Sounds a lot like Abyssal Exalted. Well, except that the dying and getting resurrected part is debatable...

I have an inkling to play as a Drow Druid who favors spiders. Sound bland? Well imagine her holding a monopoly in a small cities economy through food (insects eat all other crops) and clothing (Silk is only option; every clothier has been eaten or converted to her side). Duke trying for put her down? Bring out her giant spider companion, turn into a spider, summon swarms of spiders, and make the enemy leader’s hand turn into a spider and eat him. Oh, and poison is dirt cheap.

Still sounds kind of... uninspired.

Another one: an Eberron paladin...except that since Thrane seems to be the place they usually come from, mine would be from the Demon Wastes. (Screw golden armour! I want spiky metal and warpaint!)

I just dug up an old RP where I played a robotic prize fighter based on Robopon in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink city. He lived in the robot ghetto under the city's lake in the semi-operational carcass of a Super Robot. Essentially, he was trying to secure the future of the robot fighting league in order to prevent combat-oriented models from being dismantled. He really liked using fire attacks, such as fire punching with spiked knuckles. Any which way, is this doable with a Warforged?

I reckon so.

Duskblade?

Oh hell it's the Lord of Blades again...

So uh, does anyone know if, without homebrew, there's a way to make a Warforged who doesn't match the standard race description? Say, a human-like version designed for something like espionage, or one modeled to resemble a stone statue?

Races of Eberron has the Reforged prestige class that lets you stress the "living" half of "living construct", but that's not quite the same thing.

Okay let me give the brief,simple description of what I'm looking to play here and see if anyone can come up with anything.

In simple game terms, it's sort of a humanoid Warforged-Homunculus hybrid.

In character comparison terms, the existing character it is most like is Ennis.

Basically... well, actually I can't think of an easy-to-follow description that's more accurate than the comparison to Ennis.

edited 20th Jun '11 4:54:02 PM by Ezekiel

You may confirm me as clueless on this matter.

In the They Fight Crime thread over in IJAM, one character was "an otherworldly skateboarding dwarf". Somebody needs to play that in some system.

Play as an awakened zombie with boots of speed its an option at least.

If homebrew is truly out of the question I would suggest playing as a warforged, take the ironwood feat or unarmored and request it be reflavored as being made from hardened flesh. Being a Flesh Golem that’s fun sized.

Or play as a flesh golem from savage species

Or play as a human with your fluff being that you were brought back to life for your new master's purposes.

I dunno anything about the show you referenced, but there are my thoughts on what you explained

edited 21st Jun '11 8:50:03 AM by Mao

Otherworldly skateboarding dwarf?

Power of Little Surprises.

Mendallas Ironstag, a very muscular elf fighter and/or barbarian. Born to a tribe of Kord-worshipping elves. Weilds a two-handed maul.

Thraaxus, Dragonborn warlord with a penchant for doing horrible things to horrible people. Has the Dragonfear alternate racial power from an issue of Dragon, rather than the normal Dragonbreath power. Wears a necklace of dried fingers taken from bandits.

Elf barbarians, yo!

Indeed.

Also: a Gargantuan Warforged with highway on-ramp for arms, and a heart as black as coal.

I want to make a clockmaker in scion with the sky purview solely so that I can make endless puns on the phrase "Time Flies".

I figure I'll flesh him out a little bit past that, but for now...

There's a character I want to play for some times now: A Boy and His X, female version. In other words, a little girl with some monstruous yet gentle magical friend. I think it's a good chemistry to become, roleplaying two completely different characters at the same time. It could be in almost every setting, from grim future to candyland (in which case, the monster would instantly be named Koosalagoopagoop).

I was really close to play them once. My DM wanted to switch to the French dK² system (basically a refined version of D&D, only simpler and way more flexible), which gave me the opportunity to make such characters playable from level one. Granted, it was maybe a little gamebreaking... But having a soft, inanimate plush toy able to shapshift in an humungus wolf-like creature at the slightest sign of danger was priceless. I had to change a few things, making the girl Really 700 Years Old, giving her druidic origins, and so on. But I was really hyped.

... And then my DM wuss out, converting the game to Pathfinder instead. The Invoker doesn't quite cover what I wanted, and children characters were never really an option in D&D. I gave up on them.

To retaliate, I made a gunslinger-like Alchemist, throwing explosive bombs out of a makeshift grenade laucnher, constantly drunk, and overall badass. He had it coming!

edited 5th Jul '11 12:29:11 PM by Talden

All playing a child means is you take a 1 or 2 point penalty to all your stats. It's not that big a deal.

Demoman's a good substitute though.

But, if I understand you correctly, you're talking about playing a character who doesn't actually have any power, but is The Kid with the Leash?

...seems like something there should be a class for somewhere...

edited 5th Jul '11 1:06:08 PM by Ezekiel

Yes, more or less. The Kid with the Leash would be the cynical way to go, A Boy and His X the more optimistic one, we can even go to a fully fledged Mon relationship. The girl doesn't have much power, maybe a little helping magic or some social skills; all the physical stuff is done by the monster.

Pathfinder Summoner was the closest one I could get, but still not quite the way I want it.

dK² is the only system I know where being a child actually gives you bonuses (it costs you a feat, notch). What's Demoman, thought? Never heard of it.