GoldEdition42 |
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I once played a Half-Orc raised by Gnomes. He.....had alot of quirks.
An adopted PC can bring some great fun to the table.
Irrational fears can be good as well; perhaps he's a dwarf with an a fear of hammers or a Druid who openly admits he hates trees.
Maybe a Tiefling with a daddy issues or a Catfolk who is allergic to himself.
Perhaps a Grippli whose best friend is an sentient bear who practices standup.
A minotaur who wants to attack anything that is red and/or waving?
Or a Inquisitor who always brings along a pillow?
RoninUsagi |
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I have a semi-recurring character I call Fah Goh; he's usually a traveling Magic vendor (of different races usually) that I try to play like the merchant at the beginning of Aladdin.
Usually his stuff is good, but for every character who makes purchases, one item has a 1 in 20 chance of breaking after leaving the store, never to see Fah Goh again. He'll keep showing up until this happens. He's made appearances in over 4 different campaigns and 3 game systems. He is always a hit when he shows up, especially with my players that have seen him before in other games.
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
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The Incredible Brick-Stupid Barbarian-or-Fighter-Hulk is a perennial favorite.
How about a Cavalier who's a little like mine? As I always say, I'd rather be crazy than stupid.
How about:
A high-Charisma Halfling Barbarian with the Child-Like feat, maximum Intimidate ranks, and a perpetually belligerent attitude?
A necromancer (arcane or divine) who worships some Baron Samedi analogue and loves top hats, cigars, cards, booze, and tail?
A Monty Python-style Inquisitor (but by necessity, somewhat more competent) who's really good at suprise rounds ("NOBODY expects the-")?
An Alchemist modeled after Dr. Zoidberg, who thinks of himself as a physician but is way better at destroying things?
A Human Druid with the Eye for Talent alternate racial ability and an abnormally-intelligent Giant Slug companion?
A muscly, pugnacious but non-Evil sadomasochist warrior or priest or monk who worships Zon-Kuthon/Loviatar/your setting's pain deity and screams in ecstasy every time she gets hurt?
A super-genius, intractable xenophile arcane spellcaster modeled after Dr. Who, who's SOOO EXCITED by every monster, peril, and haunt you run into the more bizarre and terrible it is?
Zog of Deadwood |
Well, I had a 3.5 Ed PC elf who posed as an "elven hero" to the party, who never learned otherwise. They took him for a fighter/rogue. In fact, he was a master of disguise who was also (at least in part) a cleric of Erevan Ilesere who adventured primarily to finance elaborate pranks on lawful temples and prominent individuals and to get out of Dodge while the dust settled. He once was responsible for painting the outside of a dome on a temple to Helm a pale pink, tipped with rose. Another time he released a prisoner from the dungeon of a temple complex dedicated to Bane, disguised as a senior priest. He was "funny", I think.
Another much-loved PC was the wizard with the Bruce Wayne-ish backstory who went by the nom de guerre "Vengeance" and was given to incredibly cheesy comic-book dialogue: "Tremble, miscreants, for VENGEANCE is at hand!" That sort of thing.
Then there was the simple fighter who could always be relied upon, at least once per session, to say, "That reminds me of the time that..." following up with a usually humorous story of village life.
There was the friendly, brilliant, and slightly deranged young necomancer "Nefaria" with a sack of named crawling claws (Francois, Luigi, Johann, and Elspeth) as well as an undead cat familiar named Mr. Fluffy.
The gnome illusionist/rogue "Dilidalinakendratrilifistilibulitrek" (Dilly to his friends) with a thing for eye hurting fashion and halfling women.
Some of my PCs are utterly serious just about all the time. It's not the way to bet, though.
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
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Some of my PCs are utterly serious just about all the time. It's not the way to bet, though.
If you're REALLY serious, that kind wind up being it's own sort of funny.
"BIRTHDAY CAKE *snorts in contempt*...just another moist, pink footstep marking the trail toward DEATH.
SO BE IT. Reaper, pursue me not, for I shall hide my footsteps. I DEFY YOU, CAKE! *GLOMPH!*"
Flintas |
In 3.5 one of my players decided to make a shapechanger wizard with multiple personalities. Each day he would roll randomly to determine the dominant personality. Each personality would focus on different spells to memorize. His personalities were"
a human woman named Chloe (base personality, almost never used). She was a soft spoken party face. NG alignment.
An elven woman named Firlin. An agressive and violent person who focused on offensive magic. NE alignment.
A human male named Rico. A womaniser who's life's goal was to make magic orbs tht could show a recorded scene. He wanted to make adult movies. :D
A dwarven child, I forget the name, who acted like a 4 year old. Was obcessed with candy.
The party never did figure him out. His crowning achievement was when he used silent image to make it look like Chloe was chewing the others out when one of the other party members aproached his room.
The Crusader |
I had a really, really, REALLY friendly, polite, just all-around super-nice necromancer. I mean he would issue the most heartfelt apologies as he dismembered your family to pursue his horrendous experiments. He actually was a really nice person. That just wasn't going to stop him in his goals. My group really enjoyed that guy.
Howie23 |
I played Kira (PFS pregen, cleric of Serenrae for those who haven't met her) the other night. I played her as heavily tanned and maybe the start of skin cancer on her nose. I started voicing her with a slight southern accent, but when someone observed that she was sounding like SNL's Church Lady, she kinda took on a life of her own.
I've played a recurring character a few times in pickup games who is barefoot, and it isn't quite clear why. It's really kind of interesting how other other players will run with a single meaningless quirk, as well as how easy it is to stir the creative juices by just giving yourself a little bit to work with.
savior70 |
I had a really, really, REALLY friendly, polite, just all-around super-nice necromancer. I mean he would issue the most heartfelt apologies as he dismembered your family to pursue his horrendous experiments. He actually was a really nice person. That just wasn't going to stop him in his goals. My group really enjoyed that guy.
If you do not mind terribly, I am going to steal that with little to no shame. Awesome idea, would you mind posting your build?
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Thomas Long 175 |
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I had it come up earlier a wizard of mine who focused on touch spells and was convinced that if he touched the ground or any form of object his touch spells would be wasted as the arcane energy flowed through the earth.
As such my 90 year old human wizard flew around on a floating disk spell completely naked screaming "I'm going to touch you!" in combat.
Ciaran Barnes |
I played a warforged former soldier who stayed up all night playing "toy soldiers" while his allies slept. It was a tactical warfare game similar to D&D Miniatures, excpet one only chose the color of the army, each of which had a race or nation associated with it. It was hard finding anyone to play it with him.
Uncle Teddy |
In my Carrion Crown campaign one of my players is running a goblin sorcerer who has taken ranks in Craft: Ashes and tells every judge, sheriff, and town guard he runs across, "Someone stole my kite." (I had given him a kite for free as part of his character creation and during the first session he was flying the kite at night and burned the string - the kite flew away. So now he's convinced himself his kite was stolen.)
And that's just the tip of the iceberg for the wackiness that character brings. And he does it without being (overly) disruptive - I have had to stop a few times to regain my breath from laughing too hard.
savior70 |
I played a Rogue who had been trapped in a place that was equivalent to Wonderland for several years before being discovered by the rest of the party. In those years, he had ingested some of the local flora, specifically mushrooms, that caused him to develop mild schizophrenia. This manifested in him taking a stick and turning it into his evilish personality, Walter. He had ranks in Perform: Ventriloquism and everything.
TGMaxMaxer |
I constantly threaten to play an Aasimar Lore Warden/Archivist Bard who talks like the Crocodile hunter.
"See that there, that's a Lemure. The most dangerous Devil at our CR. Poke him with a blessed or silver stick."
I also have a Str 7 Cha 24 Bard who talks like Sacha Baren Cohen's Bruno character.
"Zat's right, you are all feeling very inspired. Just my being here makes everyone better. Now, go forth and hurt them very muchly." and "Gunter, please to be having this person talk to the half-orc instead, he smells poor."
We have a couple of Duck Dynasty looking elves (wish wood-elf statlines were legal in PF) who are the new Hunter and Slayer classes. Brothers, they constantly offer the party members a sip of "Feyshine, it's kinda like Feywine but without the tax stamp."
Haladir |
There's a PC in a game I'm running that I absolutely love: a human barbarian who's a trained professional barber. He left the profession because of his anger management issues-- he slashed a former customer who didn't like his haircut and insulted him.
But he still thinks of himself as a barber. His secondary weapon is a magic war razor that he's named "Schick." He makes LOTS of bad barber puns in combat.
"Lemme take a little off the top!"
"That's a close shave!"
etc.
He's always asking the other PCs if they want their hair cut or beards trimmed. A few take him up on it.
He also dabbles in surgery, and has one rank in Heal. He thinks he's MUCH better at it than he is.
Fromper |
Let's see. I have 15 PFS characters, and some of them have relatively serious personalities, but here are the ones who could be considered funny:
Mash, the barbarian who pretends to be dumb as rocks, but is only slightly below average mentally. He just prefers to be underestimated. So he talks like "Me Mash! Me like ta hit stuff!", but every once in a while, he'll surprise everyone by coming up with good plans or observations. I also took a trait that makes diplomacy a class skill for him and focused on it, so he was often the party face.
Seamus Luckleaf, halfling cleric of "Lady Luck" (Desna), who speaks with an Irish accent and likes spreading the luck around (Luck domain, using the halfling favored class bonus to get extra uses per day). Basically, he's a wannabe stereotypical leprechaun. Has been known to say "They're after me lucky charms!" when attacked.
Yzarctihstab Garblenarf, gnome sorcerer with a typically short gnome attention span, from the Verduran Forest between Taldor and Andoran. Left the forest to explore the world and ended up in the human parts of Taldor, where he found human society to be quite entertaining. Watching the Taldan nobles competing for position and acting like snobs is like reality TV to him, which is why he swore loyalty to Taldor even as he left to join the Pathfinder Society and see the rest of the world. He just wanted to keep up with all the gossip. Eventually earned a Baron title just because he could.
Norowareta Nagagorjo - not quite as funny as the others, but I have fun with him. He's a nagaji who speaks with the typical hissing noise you'd expect from a snake man. As an oracle with the tongues curse, he can only speak Infernal in battle, which made him think he was cursed by devils for most of his life. Despite being lawful good, he routinely looks to the skies and swears at the gods for allowing him to be cursed. More recently, he's found out that Iomedae is the one who cursed him, so now he just swears at her directly.
Wizzlefarb - Gnome bard with the Prankster archetype from the Advanced Race Guide. Has a tendency to tie the Venture-Captain's shoelaces together during mission briefings. Took the Gift of Tongues racial trait so he can get two languages known for each rank in linguistics, and trains it every level, just so he can insult people in as many languages as possible. Has perform: comedy as his first versatile performance, and uses it to replace intimidate to demoralize enemies during battle by mocking them, then adds the Mock bardic performance on top of that.
Green Beard the Pirate - Big, ugly half-orc who always smells like cheap rum. Cleric of Besmara, the Pirate Queen. Poster child for "Talk Like a Pirate Day". Nuff said.
Molos Pinktusk - Big, ugly oni-spawn tiefling with a bite attack from his big tusks, and an obsession with food. Joined the Pathfinder Society specifically to travel the world, sampling various cuisines from all over. Has Profession (Chef) as his day job. Whenever he bites an enemy in combat, he makes a comment about how they taste. Cooks up the remains of fallen foes for dinner, though probably won't be able to do this with sentient foes very often, as that's considered evil by Society rules, which isn't allowed.
equinoxmaster |
Yzarctihstab Garblenarf, gnome sorcerer with a typically short gnome attention span, from the Verduran Forest between Taldor and Andoran. Left the forest to explore the world and ended up in the human parts of Taldor, where he found human society to be quite entertaining. Watching the Taldan nobles competing for position and acting like snobs is like reality TV to him, which is why he swore loyalty to Taldor even as he left to join the Pathfinder Society and see the rest of the world. He just wanted to keep up with all the gossip. Eventually earned a Baron title just because he could.
that is exactly what taldan nobles are for!!! They are for our entertainment
Third Mind |
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Inquisitor dressed in red, "No one expects the Cheliax Inquisition!"
There's also a child like pick pocket that's just very curious, "Oh! What's this?" "That's... my belt." *Pants drop* "Really?! How useful! May I have it?"
Awoken Grizzly Bear Bard focusing on comedy performance that wears a tie. He tells horrible jokes.
Perhaps an extremely (overly so) non-superstitious type:
*Wizard casts dimension door and appears somewhere else.*
"How do you explain that?!"
"Obviously there's a double and it was pre-planned."
Maybe an arcane caster who is repulsed by germs.
*spell book falls onto the dirt.*
*Looks to barbarian* "Hey, uh... big guy. Yeah you. Could you pick that up and dust it off for me?"
"Do it yourself."
"Blast it all." *Casts mage hand and shakes it briskly whilst in the air to knock the dust off. Takes the book with only his thumb and index finger.*
Characters who take things literally and are somewhat gullible can be fun, if the party is ok with it.
*Wizard shouts blast it all in frustration and disgust*
*Character that takes things too literally proceeds to light the fuse of a bomb*