So, I was putting together an alchemist/psion (nomad) and got something neat going between bomb-throwing and temporal manipulation and mobility.
And then when I started to think about the character imagery, my mind went to one place:
I had accidentally created Akemi Homura.
Whoops.
Has this kind of thing ever happened to you?
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It happens repeatedly.
Due to the sheer number of characters that exist in fiction, it's pretty much almost impossible to not recreate one by accident.
I dunno. Time-travelling magical girl that throws bombs and whose soul is host to a vast evil is kind of specific.
(Eberron Elan; they have Quori spirits trapped in their souls)
Edit: Oh, and she can manifest trippy astral wings. WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING? D:
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WAY back in the '80s, for my first character in the Champions super-hero RPG, I created a martial artist character. I thought I was being original when I named him "Iron Fist." I didn't read Marvel comics at all at the time (I was a DC loyalist), and had never heard of the Marvel character. No one believed me.
Per Eberron art, her 'canonical' power effect colour is purple.
Damnit, Val! Stop being Homura! Stop it right now!
I made a rogue/wizard character for a PbP a year or two ago, and I had based him on a wizard from Noah Antwiler's Thieves' World game that he talked about in his 'Counter Monkey' series. A few weeks ago, I realized that my character was pretty much a carbon copy of Rust Cohle from 'True Detective,' which is doubly strange, since I made the character over a year before the show even aired. I guess time really is a flat circle.
Time is a Wibbly Wobbly Ball of Timey Wimey stuff. Things like this happens.
In my L5R(Legend of the 5 Rings) group I accidentally built Kenshin Himura. Still don't know how I managed to do that one.
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I had accidentally created Akemi Homura......Has this kind of thing ever happened to you?
If you know your Anime history like an old time freak like myself does (I cut my teeth on Speed Racer from the time I could sit up and watch TV - around 1970), you probably have an understanding that some of the modern stuff from about 1993-on actually comes from the creators' tabletop roleplaying games. Which are BIG with the artists and writers in Japan.
So it is actually quite easy to create a character with some powers similar to an Anime character. Because a lot of Anime characters get their powers from RPGs, just as a lot of the settings you see in Anime are the setting those creators played in. Cyclically, RPGs nowadays often replicate the powers seen in Anime (amongst other forms of entertainment). Thus, it is becoming increasingly more and more difficult to escape what you are describing here.
Give you an example. One of my players is in love with Archer from Fate/Stay Night. He wanted the unlimited blade works. This was a few years back, in the last days of 3.5. On a whim, I looked in the Expanded Psionics Handbook, and you know what? With the right application of feats you can create a decent, lower-level replica of Archer with the soulknife class. Enough to make my player very happy, in any case.
Knowing this, when you think about it, it is highly likely there are people out there who are playing characters close to Archer and have no idea Fate/Stay Night even exists. So, does this happen? All the freakin' time.
"There is nothing new under the sun," somebody wrote at least, oh... 2,500 years ago. And there still isn't.
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Was making a Paladin, had been taken advantage of as a young girl and been a "Wild child" of sorts, imprisoned by a Big Bad, saved by a guy who she later married, they started a family in a massive house, tons of kids. She does blacksmith work for the family, while the man is a woodsman/lumberjack. She looked up to him for what he did, and was, and wanted to be better for him, and later their family. What she doesn't realize is that she is the backbone of her family, the core that holds it together.
I made Charity Carpenter from the Dresden Files. -_-
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I was making an anti-hero for a game we were playing, the idea being for a short break we are playing the antagonists instead of the protaganists.
I made the brother of my character who was out on revenge. Took me some time to realize that he was basically Javert from Les Miserables or captain Ahab from Moby Dick.
BUT WHATCHU GONNA DO, BROTHER, WHEN BROTHER HOLGAN HOLYWOOD OF THE ORDER OF THE NEW WORLD GET HIS 24 INCH PYTHONS ON YOUUUUUUUU, BROTHER?!
I think this wins the thread...
I draw on fictional characters often. How often do you read a book or watch a show and wonder what it would be like to be one of the characters? RPG's are your chance to find out.
Heck, one character was so fun that I've recreated him twice. I have both a Sage Sorcerer and a Wizard named "Phandebras the Magnificent." Huge bonus points to anyone who recognizes the reference. He's one of the major characters of his series, but he series itself is pretty obscure.
I will confess to having implemented many elements of Wolverine into some of my characters(the claws, mostly). I can't help it, those retractable claws are just badass to me.
I will confess to having implemented many elements of Wolverine into some of my characters(the claws, mostly). I can't help it, those retractable claws are just badass to me.
I had a Shadowrun Player who used Cyber Spurs for that... Absolutely evil...
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In an old GURPS supers campaign, I played a Neanderthal who got frozen in a glacier and was re-animated in the present like Captain America. He was given increased intelligence as a side effect of the re-animation process and became a gadgeteer, inserting a variety of devices into a club or hidden in his fur clothing.
It turns out I made Captian Caveman.
In an old GURPS supers campaign, I played a Neanderthal who got frozen in a glacier and was re-animated in the present like Captain America. He was given increased intelligence as a side effect of the re-animation process and became a gadgeteer, inserting a variety of devices into a club or hidden in his fur clothing.
It turns out I made Captian Caveman.
Wow... Gotta admit that this one is an odd occurrence... And man I miss watching that show.