tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post5975942837685758134..comments2024-03-29T06:16:21.012+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: Unforgettable, that's what you are...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-17559456013430863322008-11-13T23:48:00.000+08:002008-11-13T23:48:00.000+08:00Viriconium: Nobody's history would be complete wit...<B>Viriconium</B>: Nobody's history would be complete without a player character ripped off from a novel.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-67280322816906198852008-11-13T04:30:00.000+08:002008-11-13T04:30:00.000+08:00Sorry - it was Galeris D'Averc, and he was based o...Sorry - it was Galeris D'Averc, and he was based on (ripped off from) Huillam D'Averc from Michael Moorcock's Hawkmoon series...Viriconium369https://www.blogger.com/profile/05891699080919444861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-44836240922294930622008-11-13T02:02:00.000+08:002008-11-13T02:02:00.000+08:00Lethe, my cold-hearted, gloriously glamourous, ice...Lethe, my cold-hearted, gloriously glamourous, ice-blonde AD&D assassin (I was 15)<BR/><BR/>Sir Huillam D'Averc, my consumptive Pendragon knight with a perilously low CON, an affected high camp manner and a fine sliver of cruelty<BR/><BR/>Larry 'Fat B****rd' Milano, a character who has remained memorable and even well loved even though at the time I *loathed* him - he was a CoC character whose only attribute above 11 was SIZ<BR/><BR/>Arlene, my psychopathic, sociopathic Star Wars Outlaw: she regularly behaved in wildly unpredictable ways, usually so as to cause her fellows to despise her. <BR/><BR/>Scarlet, my LARP Scout, who was as inept at scouting, tracking and general acts of thievery as I am (of course), but who somehow made it up to level 8 despite having achieved nothing in the game other than survival (I regularly endured the refs head-shaking disbelief as I failed to spot runes on the floor and monsters in the bushes, and missed every opportunity to backstab or, well, help the party at all really.<BR/><BR/>Mostly I DMed, though (perhaps for good reason? Sociopathy suits DMs better)Viriconium369https://www.blogger.com/profile/05891699080919444861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-56049811603612918342008-11-12T09:16:00.000+08:002008-11-12T09:16:00.000+08:00Two all time favorite D&D characters. Calvert ...Two all time favorite D&D characters. <BR/><BR/>Calvert McAllister, paladin. Played him as a kind of hybrid of Roy Rodgers and classic Superman, preferred fisticuffs and tumbling to heavy armor and a sword. When he finally relented and started wearing plate mail, it turned out he'd somehow gotten hold of a suit of cursed "Armor of Missile Attraction", but he never really noticed, since he was such a tank. He just figured he was taking one for the team... High point, killing a giant mounted on a giant gryphon with a pocket knife. (Aided by a fly spell. Cut the strap on his saddle with a crit and gravity did the rest.)<BR/><BR/>Zzapokk the lizard man. When his egg shards were read at his birth, they foretold a glorious destiny. Great for bizarre cultural references drawn from nature shows. Once complimented a powerful, but very fat, bishop by saying he must truly be mighty for having killed and devoured so many enemies. High point, calling the attention of a passing black dragon so that he could pay his respects, and making a natural 20 on his diplomacy check. (Meaning that the party only lost a mule and all the jewels in Zzapokk's gullet from the whole deal. I probably deserved a beating in real life for that stunt, seemed appropriate to the character at the time...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-46036883159648831332008-11-12T07:23:00.000+08:002008-11-12T07:23:00.000+08:00Garfield: my second Shadowrun character (I was als...Garfield: my second <I>Shadowrun</I> character (I was also 15), he looked like a bald Wolverine, and had the temperament of the Hulk. <BR/><BR/>JJ: my third <I>Shadowrun</I> character, envisioned as a street punk with fancy hacking skills, but somehow generated with vast amounts of cash, so soon traded in the skateboard for a sports car. Most of my game time with this character consisted of him trying to convince his girlfriend not to dump him, although in one memorable scenario, he felled a free spirit with a roundhouse kick.<BR/><BR/>I Forget His Name: a huge <I>Call of Cthulhu</I> character vaguely reminiscent of Jaws from the Bond films, who survived a TPK because he'd been shot in the face with a shotgun and was in hospital when the rest of the party were killed by some kind of proto-Blair Witch.<BR/><BR/>I Forget His Name II: my one and only World of Darkness character, he was a Gangrel vampire, whose bestial features were more like those of an ape than the usual wolf/bat (since the rulebook never specified). A barely concealed ripoff of Beast from <I>X-Men</I>, he was a scholar and a pacifist, and didn't get on with all the whinging goths; I suspect he was a manifestation of my unconscious desire to be playing anything other than <I>Vampire</I>.<BR/><BR/>Nicodemus: My one and only <I>D&D</I> character (I briefly played a female Scottish paladin in <I>AD&D</I>), this chap was a mage whose face was always concealed by a hood, and who spent more time hitting things with his sword than casting spells. I'm toying with resurrecting him for a 4e game.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.com