Halflings for the win!
+2 (+1 for TOTP)
Halflings for the win!+2 (+1 for TOTP)*headtilt*
TOTP?
Top Of The Page. :P
Not sure if it's official; it just seemed the logical choice!
We had a Elf Bard in our Scarred Lands campaign who worshiped a jelly donut. We thought he was just messing around when he rolled the character, but he kept this going for about 2 years RL, singing praise and trying to gather worshipers of the jelly donut. When the donut got stale, he just went to the bakery and got a new one, and began singing praise for his deities new form. All things considered, he rolled played it excellently; he was very excited about this jelly donut!
The scary part about this was the backstory he wrote up, explaining just how his character came to worship said donut... I can't remember all the details, but I remember reading it, nodding to myself thinking "yeah... that makes a lot of sense" I think I even gave him some bonus xps for it :P
I rolled up a six-armed tauric wood elf/hippogriff named Murtauch one time. Never got a chance to play him as his soul was lost to a deck of many things right off the rip...
BubBL3!
My introduction to Mutants and Masterminds was as a reluctant player after our very high-level, high-powered DnD campaign ended. I wanted to avoid the inter-party arms race we had endured and intentionally NOT make a super-powerful character. Yet I wanted the character to be annoying and of course, well-nigh unkillable. So from the initiation sequence of the Large Hadron Collider rose BuBbL3!, a hyperintellignet bubble of space-time stuff.
I spent the majority of my starting points on being the smallest size category possible, and picked up powers of multiple duplication and being able to absorb damage and some corollary power that so long as one duplicte survived somewhere, the character survived. BuBbL3! made a great scout, but was nearly totally useless in combat, being able at best to confuse enemise and friends alike, or possibly be a distraction. To my DM's credit, almost no-one ever attacked BuBbL3!, since he was nearly imperceptible. He was actually quite fun for a while, until I was familiar enough with the rules to want to actually contribute to the combat exploits of Super-Jesus and the others...
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Well, I have a new entry in this category myself after last night.
My Beloved Spouse (Kobold chorus: "We love you!") and I just picked up one of my favorite groups recently. Specifically, we started up the Keep on the Borderlands group which is otherwise called "The Guild of Calamitous Intent"
The group is a motley mercenary band. I took the opportunity since we were jumping the timeline to gently remove a couple characters who no longer clicked, even though I liked them. And then my wife proposed adding in others. "The grand recruitment drive resumes"
So I bring in my survivor from the Freeport trilogy, a fighter/cleric who had fully attuned to the Jade Serpent of Yig... thus becoming a shapeshifting snakeperson. Oh, and she's got a cursed saber that makes her believe that anyone around her is trying to steal it... and thus she tries to kill anyone that gets too close to her shiny.
But that's not the main event. The main event is Ylva. A female troll built using Savage Species almost RAW. We took out the LA, put her up to a Level 5 Troll and ran with it. When it came time to generate a backstory, we batted around a couple ideas before settling on...
"Yeah, she's the local wizard guild's basement troll. They use her blood for spell components, her skin for spellbooks and other such. She gets out when the world comes crashing down, and she's a bit twitchy around arcane magic users..."
So I gave her some ranks in Profession (Scribe) and Craft (Calligraphy). At level 5, she's got a STR of either 26 or 28 ... I can't remember which. Factor in that she's a Large category creature that doubles the weights she can carry. In other words, she can drag/push 9200 pounds.
Oh, and with an INT of 12, she's smarter than the average... human. She's Chaotic Neutral as she wasn't raised by Trolls, but she's definitely got a grudge. I'm waiting for her to run into the Centaur PC who's got a couple of trollskin spellbooks.
BuBbL3!, a hyperintellignet bubble of space-time stuff.
... you played a Timey Wimey Ball? O_o
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But that's not the main event. The main event is Ylva. A female troll built using Savage Species almost RAW. We took out the LA, put her up to a Level 5 Troll and ran with it. When it came time to generate a backstory, we batted around a couple ideas before settling on..."Yeah, she's the local wizard guild's basement troll. They use her blood for spell components, her skin for spellbooks and other such. She gets out when the world comes crashing down, and she's a bit twitchy around arcane magic users..."
So I gave her some ranks in Profession (Scribe) and Craft (Calligraphy). At level 5, she's got a STR of either 26 or 28 ... I can't remember which. Factor in that she's a Large category creature that doubles the weights she can carry. In other words, she can drag/push 9200 pounds.
Oh, and with an INT of 12, she's smarter than the average... human. She's Chaotic Neutral as she wasn't raised by Trolls, but she's definitely got a grudge. I'm waiting for her to run into the Centaur PC who's got a couple of trollskin spellbooks.
And I've just decided to have her speak with Received Pronunciation and British-English idiom and slang. Because, in my mind, nothing is more terrifying than a genteel Troll asking to stop the forced march for tea.
I'm sick AND twisted.
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I've had a few memorable strange characters:
1) We once played an extended mini-campaign as Hordlings rolled up from the 1st Edition Monster Manual II charts. You could end up with some pretty weird looking characters... mine was a two-legged hordling with tentacle arms, a huge mouth with tons of teeth, and some other strange limbs and body features.
He worshipped the ground one of the other players walked on, and constantly saluted him whenever given orders. I always, without fail, did the salute at the table, putting my forearm to my head and wiggling my fingers to emulate a tentacle wiggle.
Great fun, that.
2) A friend insisted on playing a drow campaign, so I made up a drow pimp called Fo'schizzle. I actually had to watch a lot of Snoop Dog clips on YouTube to keep up on my ability to speak in-character. It didn't last, because you can only make malt liquor and ganja jokes for so long... but it was fun while it lasted.
And no, I don't know how a drow pimp would work in a matriarchal society; I think we decided I was more of an agent for various succubi.
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I've had a few memorable strange characters:
1) We once played an extended mini-campaign as Hordlings rolled up from the 1st Edition Monster Manual II charts. You could end up with some pretty weird looking characters... mine was a two-legged hordling with tentacle arms, a huge mouth with tons of teeth, and some other strange limbs and body features.
He worshipped the ground one of the other players walked on, and constantly saluted him whenever given orders. I always, without fail, did the salute at the table, putting my forearm to my head and wiggling my fingers to emulate a tentacle wiggle.
Great fun, that.
2) A friend insisted on playing a drow campaign, so I made up a drow pimp called Fo'schizzle. I actually had to watch a lot of Snoop Dog clips on YouTube to keep up on my ability to speak in-character. It didn't last, because you can only make malt liquor and ganja jokes for so long... but it was fun while it lasted.
And no, I don't know how a drow pimp would work in a matriarchal society; I think we decided I was more of an agent for various succubi.
... I think you just won the internet. My coworkers now are staring at me like I'm insane.
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I once was stuck playing an intelligent sword. The GM thought it would be fun to have me play loot. To this day, I am not sure how he convinced me this would be a good idea.
So, my character was picked up by the bloodthirsty barbarian/fighter (the player was a pain and a bit of an a*se, so I decided to make things a bit difficult for him). This meant refusing to use the swords special abilities and using some of the special abilities to annoy him in battle.
In my usual style, I came up with a back story and a personality for the sword. It had retained its original name, the one given to it by its creator, and had begun to resent the new names it had been given since its creations some centuries before.
Basically, the sword didn't like its new master and after so many years of bloodshed, had decided to become a pacifist. This led to a lot of opposed rolls between my sword character and the barbarian/fighter. Eventually, since the sword refused to cooperate, he managed to trade it to the party fighter/thief-acrobat.
Now the fighter/thief-acrobat was a sensible soul and the sword decided he would be suitable master for the time being. This irritated the barbarian/fighter to the point that he finally got a hold of the blade and buried it somewhere.
So much for playing a sword character.
BuBbL3!, a hyperintellignet bubble of space-time stuff.... you played a Timey Wimey Ball? O_o
Gads, no! Thankfully no time travel involved. Time travel is actually one of my pet peeves in RPGs, since it is so often done so poorly. I try to keep my fantasy "realistic" since IRL I am a scientist.
And I had to Google "Timey Wimey Ball" - what an awful term. Is there a trope for intentionally bad names?
Edit: Was that term really used in Dr. Who? Is that what the absolute favorite show of my childhood has devolved to? Ugh, makes me glad I don't watch it...
And I had to Google "Timey Wimey Ball" - what an awful term. Is there a trope for intentionally bad names?
Yes... appropriately called Needs A Better Name.
Edit: Was that term really used in Dr. Who? Is that what the absolute favorite show of my childhood has devolved to? Ugh, makes me glad I don't watch it...
Yeah, the quote at the top of the page is directly from the script.
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And my latest strange character. Who, at first glance, wouldn't really raise any eyebrows.
Leonora Skyfallen. 1st level Halfling Sorcerer. Aberrant Bloodline. ... Yes, a Mythos critter got its strange on with a Halfling. This gave the family their surname, and she gets the squiggly freaky from the bloodline. At first, it's really just her eyes. Specifically, her ovine, yellow eyes. She's the very unnatural offspring of a Young of Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young... Yeah baby, it's all about the Mythos horrors, and my Beloved Spouse (Kobold chorus: "We love you!") is already contemplating taking this character and an appropriate party to Carrion Hill.
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Edit: Was that term really used in Dr. Who? Is that what the absolute favorite show of my childhood has devolved to? Ugh, makes me glad I don't watch it...Yeah, the quote at the top of the page is directly from the script.
Hey! The sentence got away from him!
I once played a young boy who was a werewolf and a familiar of the mage in the party.
reminds me of a mad scientist i played whose familiar, was also his apprentice, his underage daughter, his personal mechanic and his opposite sex clone. (all at the same time) the mad scientist was a rogue 1 wizard 5 unseen seer 10 arcane trickster 4. he ran errands to pay for his academy lessons. his body was almost entirely automail (see fullmetal alchemist) and provided 100% fortification. (treated as fortitfication enchancement on body) unfortunately, dm could never crit his arse because he never threatened against the guy. though 95% of his hit dice were d4's (the other 5% were d6's) he had more hp than the party fighter. and an intellegence in the low 30's. sweet sweet tomes. of course he was a mad sceintist. he would experiment with the corpses of those his pawns slain, his primary source of damage was acidic splatter, a reserve feat, combined with sneak attack. most of his prepared spells were utility options that led to some Xanatos Gambit or other. enough to win Xanatos speed chess on a guaranteed basis. he thought with a go mentality rather than a chess mentality. the guy was based off mayuri kurotsuchi, sosuke aizen, san-zu, and various other villanous calculating masterminds. my counselor named him Dimitri Molotov. believing the guy was going to throw nukes.
now he is as strange or stranger than Sabrina Nicoletti. (whom i mentioned on the first page)
now he is as strange or stranger than Sabrina Nicoletti. (whom i mentioned on the first page)Just when I think my group can top anything strange, you prove me wrong.
Thank you for keeping things interesting!
your welcome, Sabrina Nicoletti was the catgirl vampire sorceress aristocrat. i mentioned
sorry for proving you wrong.
a lot of my strange characters are very anime inspired, and the ideas i come up with to create them always seem to come to my mind when i'm drinking diet mountain dew, watching a cheesy shonen anime, and eating grandma's yummy, rich, fluffy chocolate cheesecake just before bed than the concepts come to me via dreams.
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a lot of my strange characters are very anime inspired, and the ideas i come up with to create them always seem to come to my mind when i'm drinking diet mountain dew, watching a cheesy shonen anime, and eating grandma's yummy, rich, fluffy chocolate cheesecake just before bed than the concepts come to me via dreams.
So anime + cheesecake + Diet Mt Dew = Odd characters? Ok, I'll have to try that and see what I come up with!
So anime + cheesecake + Diet Mt Dew = Odd characters? Ok, I'll have to try that and see what I come up with!
a lot of my strange characters are very anime inspired, and the ideas i come up with to create them always seem to come to my mind when i'm drinking diet mountain dew, watching a cheesy shonen anime, and eating grandma's yummy, rich, fluffy chocolate cheesecake just before bed than the concepts come to me via dreams.
but you have to do it just before bed, and pray they come to you via dreams.
Not sure this is my strangest character, but it is filled with role-playing applications.
In this game, the goal is to figure out the personality flaws of the other PCs. As a child, the DM and I decided that would be her "flaw." Because she is a changeling, the rest of the party does not know she is a child(though they have guessed at shapechanger), and thus think her flaws may be as follows.
1) Does not like graveyards/undead
2) Afraid of the dark.
3) Doing 'evil' things
For RP reasons, the flaws have drawback. After finding a spell stone(Prismatic Spray, Cure Mod, and Unseen Servant 1/day), she used it with learning what Prismatic Spray was. Those poor thieves never had a chance. One got hit by 2 of the poison colors, and the other took 20 points of fire damage and was sent to the Elemental Plane of Water.
Of course, she had never killed anyone before, and promptly vomited before curling up in the fetal position and holding her kness while murmuring "I didn't mean to..." The local high priest provided mental and emotional support after she ran back to the temple.
It has been discussed they she may gain another personality(and character sheet) if situations like this continue to happen.
"Why is that women walking around with a skeleton and a rotting psuedodragon?" -Young boy, upon seeing Neji-Bana("Twisted Flower," the name of the Evil side) walking through town.
In highschool we played a werewolf the apoc game...where I begged and pleaded for a week or so to be allowed to play anything but a werewolf (I was under the impression they HAD to be all tree hugger hippie type). Right before I set down and make my character another guy who we invited last minute said "I don't have a werewolf made up, but I've got a toreador vampire" DM oks it...and I successfully resist the urge to kill them both. Thus was born my "every flaw in the book" guy. I picked every single flaw I thought I could possibly RP. With three or four intollerances (I know he hated cops...can't remember whatelse), would auto shift into the big huge hybrid wolf form whenever he orgasmed...I think he was near sighted all to hell...had a short fuse...I know he was mute...had some sort of mental illness/derangement...Still came a hair's width away from becoming our group's pack leader. The vampire obviously didn't qualify...one of the other members was a pacifist EMT type...and another guy (the player) was the resident douche bag who always forced himself into leadership rolls, so everyone said under no circumstances would he be pack leader. I think we eventually talked someone else into joining the group and making something workable.
Another character from my WoD days was a baali clan vampire, used in the modern setting. I played her infrequently, as most of the time me playing her well would cause new players to leave the game. She was embrased as a young girl...after being tricked into believing her her father had been sexually abusing her. First thing she does is wack the old man and a few innocent bystanders in a traditional "new vampire coming to grips" rage...and is prompty informed of the truth (I think it was the vampire who embrased her who was actually molesting her). Fast forward to modern day...and you have a three hundred year old psychotic in the body of a nine year old girl, who's been embrased by the clan of demonic sado masochist fetish vampires. And she talked someone in our group into purchasing her a few guns...
I distinctly remember one sceen where she was setting attop a lamp post shooting people until an armored police car ran into the post and caused her to fall, butt first onto said car. Storyteller ruled that her but busted through the winshield, but she couldn't pull herself out. So I inform the ST that Emily is shooting through her crotch/lower abdomen into the car. Emptying the clip, changing angle back and forth with each shot to hit driver and passenger. We roll all the damages out, roll resistances for my vampire...and I end up damn near sending myself into torpor, but killing the offedning police officers.
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New strangeness:
Modron reincarna Gnome Psion/Pyrokintecist whose lover is a Gnome Illusionist/Rogue/Arcane Trickster... who happens to be blue (after a Rod of Wonder incident)
Pooka Bard - Also one of the crunchy moral centers of the group. Name is Elwood P. Dowd. Gold star to the first person to get the joke.
Human Paladin of an Orc deity (this is only weird outside of context, but I thought it bore mention) who is named after a Human deity.
A mutant bear from Gamma World in a PFRPG based Spelljammer game. (Who, upon meeting the Pooka in his 'normal' bunny form, thought him a hoop)
An aasimar descendent of a valkyrie whose main goal in life is to earn her wings. She did and is now the chosen champion of a Halfling deity. Oh, and she's green.
A Dwarven Fighter/Rogue/Psion and the captain of a living spelljamming vessel. Also, purple. (That Rod of Wonder got a workout, what can I say)
An 11 year old Vistani boy who was once a psion/rogue and then wished himself into being a "Master thief", thus a) Raising his rogue level to 10 b) Aging himself to 25 physically, while remaining emotionally and otherwise an 11 year old boy c) Losing all psionic abilities.
A Pixie Oracle, and possibly one of the more 'boring' characters in this motley crew.
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IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE!
I once played a submissive masochistic female psychic in a Conspiracy X game. The other players just didnt know how to deal with her at all.
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I would say my strangest was a toss up. Our version of Corystan Pike from SCAP was a clothes loving hard of hearing lesbian with a lisp and a strong aversion to hights. Then there was/is Saphic Rose Dawnstar, an alu fiend that thinks she is the daughter of a paladin, and does try her best to resist her mothers side of her personality. She wound up dating an angel. But waaaaaaaaay back in GURPS I played the unimaginitive named Ursa Major, an awakened grizzly bear, he was kinda like a cross between Smokey the Bear and Eric the Viking, his arch enemy was an albino troll named Loam.
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And a new one in the contention for "Strangest" is:
Toyan of the Mastodon Riders.
A male Halfling from the southern polar region of my Beloved Spouse's (Kobold chorus: "We love you!") homebrew world.
Druid/Barbarian. Mastodon animal companion named Danjo. Mounted Combat, Trample, Improved Overrun.
There's just something about a small for a Halfling sized Halfling leaping from a charging mastodon and wild shaping into combat. It appeals to my twisted dorky mind.
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I didn't get to play him (he was too odd a character concept, heck never even got to flesh him out all the way) but it was for an all monsterous PC campaign
He was a Half-Dragon Anthropomorphic Baleen Whale Barbarian
For some reason the DM really didn't want me to play him...
Was his dad Ashardalon? (From the "Bastion of Broken Souls" adventure)
Star Frontiers - I played a retired mercenary turned Interstellar Tow Truck driver/Repo man.
Fun stuff.
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#3: I played a stoic Brujah in a Vampire:TM game for quite a while. Stoic as in, he resisted blood frenzy every time, except one random occasion. He was a French American turned during WWII, and decided that the best way to quietly take power was to appear to be the strong-arm thug everyone assumed he was. He resisted frenzy from other player's mental manipulation, burning buildings, rooms painted in blood, and carrying other players away from fights while they were in frenzy. He now carries a CD player with a musical score recorded that paralyzes vampires, and strangely no one else in the group has asked him to use it or copy it.
#2: D&D 3.5, my character for a couple games was a lantern archon cleric. It was kind of hard for a little sphere of glowing vapor to wear items, but the abilities to fly and teleport at will certainly help when you're eaten by a T-rex.
#1: Another character in that same party was a wizard... large size tauric spider / anthropomorphic skunk. He was not terribly effective after losing so many caster levels for racial adjustment.
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More for the thread, as I just keep 'em coming. My GM gets this ... look every time I ask to write up a new character. And then, sometimes, she outdoes me.
Dikeledi (pronounced high pitched and at some speed as it should be, it kinda sounds like tick a lee lee, but that's just me...)
Male Awakened Weasel Druid. His animal companion is a baby roc named Scree. I've only gotten a short session with them so far, but they've already endeared themselves to me greatly.
Partial inspiration from Weasel Patrol - "Protect, Serve, RUN AWAY!"
Partial inspiration from Elf Quest's griffon riders.
As I've stated in another thread, I'm playing an albino Mawangi sorcerer of the aberrant bloodline. He's a pesh user, currently in a relationship with a harpy, and insists on devouring a part of every aberration the party defeats. One of the wizards in the party has ranks in Profession(cook), so my sorcerer has him come up with inventive ways of making the things palatable. So far he's had gibbering mouther stew, and a candied, jellied central eye from an eye of the deep. I don't know that he's the strangest character I've ever played, but he's the strangest in a while.
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Strangest recent character, in a super-hero game, Zatara, kid brother of Zatanna, who can't affect living targets with his magic (which is most commonly transmutation or item creation) and has to speak his spells backwards.
In a bank robbery;
"Snug ot Gniddup!"
"Guns to pudding? Really?"
"I skipped lunch, bite me."
Later, dealing with a single annoying flunky;
"Roodpart raeppa!"
<flunkys fall through suddenly-appearing trapdoor beneath him>
"Roodpart hsaniv!" <to teammate>, "That's my favorite..."
Teammate, looking at smooth floor, where the trapdoor was "Where did he go, anyway?"
"I dunno. Downstairs I guess."
"There is no downstairs. We're in the basement..."
"Oh." Pause. "Sucks to be him."
Mid-fight with a speedster, as a delayed action;
"Serblam, uh, screw it! Htloc ot Leets!"
<speedster tumbles out of control as his cloth costume turns to inflexible steel>
Teammate, "Was the cussing part of the spell?"
"You try to say 'Marbles everywhere' backwards while someone is punching you in the face, smart guy!"
I had a lot of fun trying to come up with spontaneous backwards-speak spells!
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Strangest recent character, in a super-hero game, Zatara, kid brother of Zatanna, who can't affect living targets with his magic (which is most commonly transmutation or item creation) and has to speak his spells backwards.
In a bank robbery;
"Snug ot Gniddup!"
"Guns to pudding? Really?"
"I skipped lunch, bite me."Later, dealing with a single annoying flunky;
"Roodpart raeppa!"
<flunkys fall through suddenly-appearing trapdoor beneath him>
"Roodpart hsaniv!" <to teammate>, "That's my favorite..."
Teammate, looking at smooth floor, where the trapdoor was "Where did he go, anyway?"
"I dunno. Downstairs I guess."
"There is no downstairs. We're in the basement..."
"Oh." Pause. "Sucks to be him."Mid-fight with a speedster, as a delayed action;
"Serblam, uh, screw it! Htloc ot Leets!"
<speedster tumbles out of control as his cloth costume turns to inflexible steel>
Teammate, "Was the cussing part of the spell?"
"You try to say 'Marbles everywhere' backwards while someone is punching you in the face, smart guy!"I had a lot of fun trying to come up with spontaneous backwards-speak spells!
TI EVOL!