dien wrote:
I've started to make characters for their silliness value rather than badassery... thus, Conan O'Brien, my bard-barian/DDI, who carries a greatsword and a rubber chicken... I keep a list of bad, D&D/PF themed jokes on hand to bomb the table with.
And I'm pretty used to him being the silliest character at any table I sit down at.
Not so at Kubla Con this year.
I apologize in advance for forgetting the names of all the characters I played with, but, around the table, we had:
-A dwarf witch who the player envisioned as, basically, a Southern Baptist grandmother, who invited every NPC we met to 'come down to our prayer meetin' for Jebus' and who constantly sat down in combat because she had to 'take a load off these old feet, Lord have mercy';
-the indispensable gnomish bearded cross-dresser and cabaret artist, Ms. Gnom de Plume, and her large and intimidating gaffer, who makes sure her lighting is always perfect (summoner and eidolon);
-the tiefling hippy alchemist who is pretty much a pacifist and who didn't want to kill the hordes of undead attacking us
([Player] "I dunno, man, can't we just, talk it out with them..."
([GM] "They're trying to eat your face."
([Player] "They're just hungry! Don't worry, I brought munchies.")
-the gunslinger whose name, I believe, was Typhoon Kamikaze (Crimson Typhoon? Something)... basically a walking giant mustache who was in an Wild West setting in his head and constantly asking if the NPCs we met had mustaches, and if the mustaches rivaled his own in manly glory;
-aaand the nagaji rogue with Int 7 whose player never once broke the sibilant lisp his character spoke with, and who mimed out his character's facial tics and gestures to perfect and hilarious effect.
I have never laughed so hard at a table. Ever. Between a visit to Miss Feathers and dressing the dwarf witch up as Cher in order to sing karaoke to a bar full of Andorans....
...yeah. Just. Yeah.
Sssslith is ssssmart I asssssure you.
