This will be a comedic campaign (with race, class and an amusing malady chose randomly, though we get free reign aside from that) and I'm not too sure how to role play.
I was thinking of putting on a really deep voice, then swearing and behaving violently at every possible oppurtunity. This would be funny because in real life I'm 5'3", have the face of a twelve year old, have a stupidly as-yet unbroken voice and am one of the meekest (most meek?) person around.
Any advice, good fellows?
I was thinking my name be something like Peewee Bloodbather, to contrast with the personality.
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This will be a comedic campaign (with race, class and an amusing malady chose randomly, though we get free reign aside from that) and I'm not too sure how to role play.
I was thinking of putting on a really deep voice, then swearing and behaving violently at every possible oppurtunity. This would be funny because in real life I'm 5'3", have the face of a twelve year old, have a stupidly as-yet unbroken voice and am one of the meekest (most meek?) person around.Any advice, good fellows?
I was thinking my name be something like Peewee Bloodbather, to contrast with the personality.
Maybe a halfling raised around (particularly gruff) dwarves? A rogue that thinks he's a fighter with kleptomania?
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I wouldn't want to keep up a silly voice all the time. It'd be hard work and is bound to annoy someone, which may or may not count as a success.
But yeah, if you look like an innocent child, work with that incongruity. PF is inherently funny with the ridiculous powers and total lack of morals of the average PC.
Just play with that concept, you barely need anything more.
Your average pirate has nothing on a PC, there's the joke already.
I once played a character in a comedy game. He was based on the wizard from The arcade game Gauntlet, so I called him AAA. He was a specialist Evoker, obviously, and all of his spell slots were fireball and burning hands and the like.
Funnily enough, he was quite effective, but only because the goblin village we encountered had flammable buildings.
Another thing you could try is having the most idiotically cliched chracter imaginable.
Make him an orphan, left as a baby on the steps of the temple of Iomedae. Make him have NO NAME. Make sure he is very brooding and a dark anti-hero. That sort of nonsense would get you laughed out of a sensible game, but that's the point, isn't it?
Another good idea would be to flesh out your character with very odd compulsions and phobias. I once made a half-orc barbarian who was so upset at advertisements and signs with bad grammar that he'd go on a killing spree, and then use the blood of his victims to paint the editing marks on the signs.
Speak in first person all the time and use your name out loud. "Why must Peewee do all the hard work he said in a deeply disgruntled voice!"
or
"Peewee takes his sword out and brandishes it at the thousand faceless minions. I scream something at them that I don't understand (scream something that you don't understand)"
and
"Peewee screams at the door to open (scream at the door to open). Why doesn't the door open?"
That kind of thing.
I played a character called Vast Deathmaster. When I think of Vast, I think of all those Barbarian movies so it's easy to play.
I wouldn't get hung up on using comedic gimmicks, cliches, and reoccurring jokes to define how funny you will be. That stuff is funny when its coming from a side character NPC, but when the story is primarily focused on you it get's extremely annoying for everyone else that you're playing with. No one wants to watch you try to be funny off of the same few jokes for dozens of hours. Just create a good character in general that isn't shallow, but has a lot of qualities that end up being hilarious on a wide array of occasions. The characters from Arrested Development are good examples.
Source: Played as a shallow/comedic character once (Halfling that talked/acted like a dwarf). Everyone wanted to kill me after the first 20 minutes...
Did I understand that race and class are chosen randomly? If so it's hard to suggest something.
If not you could make a totally unusual pc. Like an Orc Wizard with max strength who behaves like a melee guy. At lower levels you might even be able to outfight some of the full bab classes. I mean you could have strength 22 from the get go.
Armor could be a problem. But who cares about ASF? Dip into a class with at least medium armor, wear an armored coat and you can, at least out of combat, remove and don your armor quickly to cast without chance to fail.
Or you do the same as a scarred witchdoctor, then you are less MAD and can, most likely cast even higher level spell when you need them. And you will have hexes, that work in melee and with armor, too.
The viability of this depend on the level you will be playing. At level 6 and 7 you will be 3 behind on BAB but still 2-4 points of strength ahead.