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Mark Hoover and I play a very similar kind of character, though I tend not to play underdogs. My characters will champion their cause, but I'm too much of an underdog in real life to enjoy being them in my fantasy.


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I like to have control and romance in my character's life because I have none of that IRL.


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@VT: I think that's WHY I play the underdogs. Growing up I was always the shortest, heaviest, slowest, and most average in school. I was Charlie Brown with a full head of hair. For me in real life there was never that chance to claw my way up from the bottom and really shine.

In these games? I can be a Halfling, an orphan, kicked around and abandoned by every other person he's met. Until one day an old ranger takes him in, shows him a few tricks and promptly passes into the Great Wheel.

Now I'm back out there, the smallest and perceived weakest guy in the group. Then I pull out a sling. I'm not going to do much damage, but see that ogre charging us? Wham: his weapon is disarmed, Wham: he's tripped mid-charge. I've effectively ended the threat (for this round anyway) without moving, all with a simple strip of leather and some rocks.

THAT to me is badass.

Anybody can be the human fighter with 20 Str and a greatsword, Power Attack, Weapon Focus and Furious Focus that can hit anything in melee at first level and deliver avg 17 damage a round. It takes real skill, grit and intestinal fortitude to play the Halfling dex-based guy with a sling building towards skills over brawn and still finding ways to contribute to ending fights.


I understand Goth Guru. I tend to play a lot of intellectual types (cause that's easy for me). However, I also tend to gravitate to "face" roles, because it's something I wish I could be.

I like your "underdog" description Mark. It's a cool way to work. I havent played anything liek that, though I am going to play a crazy ratfolk alchemist and I hope to play him creatively (alchemy gives me plenty of tools).

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I can almost never play non good aligned characters, and despite the situation, I try to avoid conflict first if possible.

Both myself, and my characters care WAY too much about the other PCs, and a vast majority of my deaths have been trying to save others, even if it's their fault.

About half of my characters are female halflings, two of them being mid/late teens. (And all of my favorite characters have been female actually.)

I've gone out of my way to try and not have myself or my character talk so much that I feel I'm talking over other player's input, only to inevitably do it anyways. Quite hilarious when said character was mute and had to hold up notes to speak.

Honestly, I think it reflects me pretty well. I'm usually the last person in a group to get the hint that someone in the group is disliked, I go out of my way to help friends, and I like being animated when around my friends but hate feeling like I'm the center of attention. And despite being 6'5", I want to be short, I guess?


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williamoak wrote:
I tend to play a lot of intellectual types (cause that's easy for me).
CosmicKirby wrote:
About half of my characters are female halflings, two of them being mid/late teens. (And all of my favorite characters have been female actually.)

These are the 2 people who posted before me, and I feel like their profile pics perfectly encapsulate what they're saying about their characters.

Also, my characters tend to be outgoing friendly types, and I like pirate themes, so my pic pretty well represents the characters I play as well (and I chose that pic coz it looks like me).

I wonder how many people are in the same boat? Where their pic says as much about them as their play-style?

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I'm at least partly there. ^_^

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MrCharisma wrote:
williamoak wrote:
I tend to play a lot of intellectual types (cause that's easy for me).
CosmicKirby wrote:
About half of my characters are female halflings, two of them being mid/late teens. (And all of my favorite characters have been female actually.)

These are the 2 people who posted before me, and I feel like their profile pics perfectly encapsulate what they're saying about their characters.

Also, my characters tend to be outgoing friendly types, and I like pirate themes, so my pic pretty well represents the characters I play as well (and I chose that pic coz it looks like me).

I wonder how many people are in the same boat? Where their pic says as much about them as their play-style?

I would imagine that most people choose their avatar because it represents or is a character they like. Or in the very least, has an aspect that they think properly represents them.

Considering that my other avatar was the Deathless Initiate, (female monk) and that I hope every day for the Arcane Pretender, (female halfling fighter from NPC codex). I'd say that you're fairly correct about my taste in avatars.


MrCharisma wrote:
williamoak wrote:
I tend to play a lot of intellectual types (cause that's easy for me).
CosmicKirby wrote:
About half of my characters are female halflings, two of them being mid/late teens. (And all of my favorite characters have been female actually.)

These are the 2 people who posted before me, and I feel like their profile pics perfectly encapsulate what they're saying about their characters.

Also, my characters tend to be outgoing friendly types, and I like pirate themes, so my pic pretty well represents the characters I play as well (and I chose that pic coz it looks like me).

I wonder how many people are in the same boat? Where their pic says as much about them as their play-style?

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head in my case. What I really wanted however was peppermint butler, but they dont allow us to add our own pics...


Could be.


Hmmm.

I like brutal melee and scorn magic.

Way too fond of polearms.

AC is my drug, but the hit wears off when the challenge up close goes down.

Replacing my rage points pool with many tiny pictures of Putin may indicate a fondness for that politician (the barbarian was Russian).

Every character is a fragment of my self. Being larger more authentic shards than my npcs.


I chose this avatar because I was running Age of Worms at the time.


MrCharisma wrote:
williamoak wrote:
I tend to play a lot of intellectual types (cause that's easy for me).
CosmicKirby wrote:
About half of my characters are female halflings, two of them being mid/late teens. (And all of my favorite characters have been female actually.)

These are the 2 people who posted before me, and I feel like their profile pics perfectly encapsulate what they're saying about their characters.

Also, my characters tend to be outgoing friendly types, and I like pirate themes, so my pic pretty well represents the characters I play as well (and I chose that pic coz it looks like me).

I wonder how many people are in the same boat? Where their pic says as much about them as their play-style?

Sure, I'd agree with that.


I pretty much always come up with the concept and backstory first, then build mechanics around that. For me, the story of the character is far more interesting than the game mechanics. I'm not an optimizer, but I still try to build an effective character. I want the mechanics to serve the story I want to tell with the character, not the other way around.

The vast majority of my PCs are human. I'm slightly more likely to play a female character than male. I also seem to prefer arcane spellcasters, but I'll play just about anything if the mechanics match the concept.

Characters I'm currently playing...

Del Burblesquall: CN female gnome sorceress (Elemental [water] bloodline), Skull & Shackles AP. She'a a pirate. [Skull & Shackles]

Ziomarra Calliovo: CG female human (Varisian) witch (cartomancer). She's the former Harrower of a Varisian caravan who recently joined the Pathfinder Society. [Shattered Star]

Dr. Stefan von Herzog: NG middle-aged male human wizard (necromancer); He was a physician who became a necromancer because he hates the undead and wants to learn everything about them so as to destroy them. [Carrion Crown]

Characters I've played in the recent past...

Lynnda Windstrike: N female human sorcerer (arcane bloodline). She's a former brigand with a price on her head who's trying to go straight. [Rise of the Runelords]

Viorec Rulasti: CN male human (Varisian) rogue. He's a Sczarni con artist and swindler who stowed away on a ship to Sargava while on the run from a rival gang. [Serpent's Skull]

Zed Allenstar: NE male human bard. He's a popular entertainer, who's also a sociopath who tends to murder his groupies. He was arrested, tried, and convicted of a series of brutal murders before breaking out of prison. [Way of the Wicked]

Valeria Baladin: CG female human (Varisian) cleric of Desna (hidden priest). A priestess of Desna in Cheliax, she poses as a traveling troubadour and cloaks Desna's lessons of freedom and mercy in her music. [homebrew campaign set in Cheliax]

Baron Drax von Stryker: LG male human fighter [3.5 rules]. After his wastrel father impoverished his lands and tarnished his family's reputation, Drax strives to restore the honor to his family and land. [homebrew campaign & campaign world]


I tend to play clerics. Lots and lots of clerics (with the occasional paladin thrown in). Deities are so diversified that concepts change per deity represented, and with the extra little bits and pieces thrown in from Inner Sea Gods, its added to the character.

Its not always appreciated by my associates who think that I should be energy bursting and healing more, and doing other things less.


williamoak wrote:
MrCharisma wrote:
williamoak wrote:
I tend to play a lot of intellectual types (cause that's easy for me).
CosmicKirby wrote:
About half of my characters are female halflings, two of them being mid/late teens. (And all of my favorite characters have been female actually.)

These are the 2 people who posted before me, and I feel like their profile pics perfectly encapsulate what they're saying about their characters.

Also, my characters tend to be outgoing friendly types, and I like pirate themes, so my pic pretty well represents the characters I play as well (and I chose that pic coz it looks like me).

I wonder how many people are in the same boat? Where their pic says as much about them as their play-style?

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head in my case. What I really wanted however was peppermint butler, but they dont allow us to add our own pics...

I tend to make a lot of deeply religious characters, even in the case of non-casters (my most fanatic character to date was a seriously twisted gunslinger and devotee of Charon). But whenever I manage to avoid that pitfall ... something I wish I did a lot more often ... I tend to make laid-back, fun-loving, deeply irreverent and cool-as-a-cucumber types. So yeah. Leaned back, wearing shades and chewing on a straw while the world goes to pot at least fits a fair amount of my characters.

I suppose that makes some sense really ... we choose a picture when setting up our accounts, which we feel somehow fits us.

Although in the case of some of my friends here on the boards, that makes me slightly worried for their sanity :)

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