Characters you'd Like to Play

I think I'd like to play as a female knight, sort of like a dragoon or something. But in a futuristic setting, like Phantasy Star. Maybe a knight turned space pirate? I'm still figuring it out.

.. I am reminded of fire eblem's cherche and her very sexy back◊. Also, she rides a wyvern into battle.

As a keeper in Call of Cthulhu, one character I'm toying with is a half-deep one private eye. He would give missions out to the players and maybe offer advice, but he doesn't actually know about the mythos.

I'm thinking that over the course of a campaign he would slowly start to get sick as he develops the innsmouth look, and then he would disappear, providing a neat segue to another adventure. What do you think?

As an NPC? That sounds pretty awesome. How are you going to do the personality shift? Will it be the kind of thing he fights against, or will it just be the kind of gradual thing he won't even notice?

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I've got a hankering to play a droid in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire.

Just a regular Medical Droid, bought second-hand with some unusual repairs who follows his master (another PC) and treats the party's injuries. No one really notices droids, which is fine, it lets him go places.

He acts kind of funny though, maybe it's because his old processor broke and was replaced by one from an HK assassin droid? He constantly snarks that he has to patch up and heal such inferior organics, while sucking at combat. He's not really able to kill much of anyone, so he sticks to hacking and slicing (computer systems ). He'd still rather not hurt anyone, but in a setting without the 3 laws of robotics and where he has a clear interesting in preserving his and his master's life, well...

edited 25th Dec '15 10:26:10 AM by Earnest

I mean, droids have free will of a sort, so you don't have to justify a droid's quirks with "they have a messed-up processor" or something like that. (Star Wars media itself does that, but you don't have to stoop to their level.)

There're tons of character ideas I've had, but the most recent one is a Vampire (either Masquerade or Requiem, doesn't really matter to me cuz I've never actually played either game) character who is trying to dismantle the Masquerade and reveal the existence of vampires to humans, but not in the Sabbat's "we want to rule over everyone" way, in more of a "humans deserve to know" kinda way.

I'm not actually sure how original an idea this is, but I like it.

"We're home, Chewie."

Well, there are SO many people that would want him dead, not only the local Camarilla, but all sorts of self-proclaimed vampire hunters from hillbilly preachers through high school cheerleader ninjas to the dreaded Technocracy (they hate all that supernatural shit, and only because of familiarity they focus on mages most of the time).

Also, I finally rolled Sylon Malthus the Heretek. I'm not sure whether giving him a Bolt Pistol as an additional weapon is legal, but that was the best thing for killing shit dead that I could get if I understood the rules properly.

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@ Dorku - his bible absolutely has to include Hard Rock Hallelujah. :D

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I've considered, among others, a Hillbilly dwarf bard, an ilithid cleric of Cthulhu , and a half-orc druid who's animal form is a boar.

Basically all the classes in The Sprawl (a cyberpunk game some friends and I started playing recently) seem fantastically fun and I want to play all of them, but some specific ideas I've had that I've really liked have been a Killer based on the lyrics and video of 'Emperor's New Clothes' and a Pusher who is a communist revolutionary trying to dismantle the cyberpunk capitalist dystopia.

"We're home, Chewie."

Characters I'd like to play? Well... There's the Heavy Metal Bard archetype that was made on the Paizo forums (Lemmy or his Brütal Legend version: the Killmaster).

Also I want to find a way to play a homebrew race I made a few months ago. It's based on Bladewolf. Hopefully my group's other DM will let me use it in his next campaign.

This also reminds me: In my homebrew setting, one of the countries has an Alternate Class of Cavalier which is all about Wyvern, and eventually, Dragon-riding^note It's because said country is so mountainous and rocky that normal cavalry just doesn't work and the country has several breeds of wyverns ranging from int 3 to int 7 so... and the head of the king's home staff and guard is one and based on Cherche.

Well, one idea that's been sort of rolling around in my head for a while is a Cleric of SCIENCE. Or, more accurately, a cleric of a non-theistic faith that's devoted to knowledge and scientific advancement - both conventional and fantastic, including sufficiently analyzing magic. Though mainly interested in creating a better tomorrow, there's certainly elements of the more morally ambiguous parts of For Science! involved as well.

Naturally, some or all elements of this will be subjected to what I can convince the GM to go along with, but with us trying out a new system (specifically, Open Legend), it could work. Hopefully.

I'd love to sometime play the silly idea for a Warforged Rogue I had back in the 4E days.

Inspired by the DDO named of warforged like Cog and Gear, I created:

"Authorized" — a Warforged made originally as a spy and diplomat, originally 'authorized to go anywhere in the kingdom'. Near the end of the war, he was buried by a magical explosion and buried. Found and revivd by adventurers, teh damage and the years he was burid have degraded his memory. He is now 'Authorized' and 'allowed anywhere'. Coming upon any place he wants to enter, but is barred from entry, he simple walks up and demands to be let in, declaring ."I'm Authorized!"

A while back I learned about Central Casting from Spoony's Counter Monkey series. I found a copy of it and gave it a try, and it's a lot of fun. Rolled up a D&D 5th character who came from a "barbarian" society, more rustic than savage, and then had a religious epiphany with the healing god.

Basically, she walked into church one day and everyone declared her to be The Chosen One, so she started believing she was.

Somehow, this concept turned into some kind of phoenix-worshipping shugenja-type character. I'm not sure if I'd go full cleric of the light for burninate powers; a multiclass cleric/sorcerer, healing domain and dragon-powered; or go for the healing domain and the phoenix-powered from Unearthed Arcana.

She'd be running around yelling about her god and trying to convert people to him, the secret is that he's really just Pelor in a noh mask pretending to be a bird because some people started worshiping healing-sun-birds in her country.

I'd like to play her but I won't because:

• A. I'm the group's GM. Always.
• B. My roommate is thinking about G Ming a short game elsewhere in my world. They've been to Not-China but Not-Japan doesn't yet exist in my world, though it should. So this character comes from some radically different weeaboo-land nobody else has heard of, in a side-quest campaign exploring an area they haven't really visited yet.
• C. I'm a terrible roleplayer. Nobody wants to hear about my super-special character and how important or "clever" or "unique" or whatever the fuck I think she is. Nobody needs her to start trouble in Church-City because she's spouting heresy and shit because she's "in character".
• D. I'm not asking the GM for any favors, so no Unearthed Arcana shit. I'm playing a character entirely by the core book because fuck demanding "I want to play X but Y isn't in the core books, so can I just have Y? X CANNOT POSSIBLY WORK WITHOUT Y."

So I'm just playing a dwarf fighter with a longbow and ranged feats, 8 INT and 7 CHA, who will keep his mouth shut, follow the party around, and shoot what they want shot.

"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984

Good-aligned Perky Goth Nightmare Fetishist necromancer.

Ultra-flamboyant bard who uses prestidigitation to alter their look.

That first one reminds me of that time I pondered making a Magical Girl necromancer.

...Come to think of it, I really should make that character a reality some day.

I kind of want to do that now as well

I'd like to play someone like Alphonse from Full Metal Alchemist, so like a Warforged with the soul of a child.

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I kind of want to play a character who's imbued a firearm with a malevolent spirit and dubbed the gun Brimstone.

I just saw the Giant Soul Sorcerer in 5e's Unearthed Arcana and I *kinda* want to play a Gnome with that.

Both to say they might be small but have the Soul of a Giant

And at level 14 be able to grow the Gnome to a Large Creature

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x6: I have an idea sorta like that first one... it's for Genius: The Transgression (a Chronicles of Darkness fan gameline about Mad Scientists, for those of you who didn't click the link), and he's a Progenitor (Mad Scientist group that focuses on biology and on creating life) who leans heavily into Alien-inspired aesthetics and biomechanical stuff and (just like your necromancer) is a heroic Perky Goth Nightmare Fetishist. As in, those were the exact tropes I was thinking of when I created him.

Another idea I have (for D&D this time; probably 5e because in 3.5 cleric alignments have to match their deity) is a cleric of some obscure evil cult who somehow hasn't caught on that his god is evil, and he just wants to help people. The idea being that as a child he was in this cult and was told good things about the deity, but never got to see or hear about all the awful stuff the cult did. Then the cultists were killed, he was taken back to town by adventurers, and put in some orphanage or something. No one told him there that his god was evil, either - he just kept believing. His beliefs being a misunderstanding of a euphemistic explanation of some of the cult's practices, developed under the idea that some of the stuff was a metaphor (because "churches use metaphors all the time"), eventually resulting in the idea of a benevolent god of rebirth and the sea (the cult killed people by drowning, and the way this was explained to him was that "only by descending into the water of cleansing can we ascend to be with our god," so he got the idea that his god lived underwater). Eventually, his belief grew strong enough he gained magic powers. I'm not sure whether he should take a domain like Death or Trickery to represent the god's actual portfolio, or something like Life or Tempest to represent his own beliefs.

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Silly character idea if someone ever talks me into playing D&D:

Dwarvish bard named Irony Guntherskind, who plays a mandolin encircled with bands of brass. On the item is a brass plaque with the inscription This Machine Smites Order. The inscription pertains to the exile of Irony Guntherskind from the fortress Marshdrained in the autumn of 930.

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