So I'm going to persuade my friends to join me in this legen- wait for it-dary adventure. I need some help figuring out some characters though. I've already got a few figured out:
Barney Stinson (can also be played as a female named Sue Top) - rogue
Ted Mosby - bard
Marshall Eriksen - paladin/druid (make an alignment exception)
The two I need help with:
Robin Scherbatsky - barbarian, monk, something else?
Lilly Eriksen - cleric? I have no idea
I love playing rogues and I'm going to have so much fun playing the deceitful, master of disguise, slight-of-hand expert, web-spinner, Barney Stinson. His high charisma is going to be great with all of his innuendos, jokes, and catch phrases. Please, I just need help with Lilly and Robin. I don't want to get them wrong.
Well you need to be more clear, what you are planning to do.
Is this a normal medieval fantasy game with characters inspired by How I Met Your Mother or a game set in modern New York?
Since you are Barney, who is the GM?
They obviously would all be commoners in the series, since none if them have any impressive powers or skills, aside of maybe Barney, whom I would have made into a bard btw.
If you make them into fantasy characters and add magical abilities you can do whatever you want, since you change them anyway.
I'd concentrate on some aspects from the show and try to adapt them into the characters:
Lilly - Witch, can be prettyy annoying and evil, but also fills the supporter role
Robin - Gunslinger, is totally into guns
This fantheory I found googling if anyone ever tried what you are going to might interest you. I consider it likely untrue, but it's still funny as hell and could give you some inspiration:
"The whole show is actually a simulation showing a Five-player Tabletop RPG with each player filling one of the Five RPG archtypes
Robin's player is the Real man. She views the game as a straightforward attempt to amass as much money and status as possible and is confused whenever role-playing and character development/relationships. As a result her character has a poorly developed bakstory.
Ted's player is the Thespian. He's determined to roleplay a lovesick romantic but his poor character optimization and unwillingness to think strategically doom him to failure.
Marshall's player is the Loony. He ignored the game's romantice premise in order to focus on roleplaying a lawyer leading to many career oriented subplots. He also randomly introduces odd quirks such as singing everything and his love of girly drinks just for lulz.
Lily's player is the brain. Determined to advanced the plot and skilled at manipulating the other players to keep them on the rails.
Barney's player is the Munchkin. His character is optimized for getting laid as much as possible. He took the flaws: parental abandonment, fear of commitment, compulsively wears suits, unable to drive and does not know how to use screwdrivers in order to get money, corporate connections and a super-high seduction skill. He also designed his apartment to give himself as many circumstance bonuses as possible. The laser tag obsession is how he justifies it to the DM when he reflexively puts points into his combat skills. Barney's butt monkey status is the DM getting revenge.
The telepathic conversations are how the simulation represents talking is a free action, the relationship arc between barney and robin was an attempt by both players to farm roleplaying XP, occasional continuity slip-ups such as the goat are the result of either the DM getting his notes mixed up or ted's player misremembering the events."
I like those suggestions; gunslinger and witch.
It's not going to be played in NYC or even in modern times. It's going to be a typical campaign with the personality of the characters from the show using the essence of the characters for their respective classes.
Barney is not a paladin. He lies, cheats, has tons of charisma for lying and diplomacy, he's a master of disguise, etc etc. Ted is telling the story throughout the entire series. He's always telling stories. He's a bard.
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I must not watch enough Television. I expected this to be a thread about explaining how unlikely crossbreed pairings happened.
Grandpa: "So there I was, feeding the horses, when the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen collapsed at the doorway to the barn. Her arms clutched at her battered but unsullied form, all six of them, and her long serpent tail lower body glistened delicately in the moonlight. When I looked into her luminescent yellow slitted eyes, I knew she was the only woman for me. Your father was hatched the next year."
Tiefling child: "Not this story again, grandpa!"