Character based on yourself?

[Yqatuba]

If you made yourself into a Pathfinder character what would you be? For me I'd say a human (Ulfen probably) NG wizard who worships Desna.

[Meirril]

Real people don't fit into rules.

[pocsaclypse]

Neutral Human Expert Level 2

[Java Man]

Well, I'm a chemist who used to teach martial arts and practice fencing. So alchemist/monk/swashbuckler? Or be honest and say expert?

[pocsaclypse]

Java Man wrote:

Well, I'm a chemist who used to teach martial arts and practice fencing. So alchemist/monk/swashbuckler? Or be honest and say expert?

Expert/Warrior at least

[Yqatuba]

Meirril wrote:

Real people don't fit into rules.

I don't mean an exact conversion (I don't really worship Desna or cast spells, obviously) More like a character that's sort of a Pathfinder "translation" of you, for lack of a better word.

[Reksew_Trebla]

Human with the fire subtype, cause heat legit does not bother me, but if the temperature gets to even 60 degrees F, I start dying from the cold.

[avr]

Aren't there questionnaires out there on the internet which will do the work of figuring this out for you? I used to see these in people's signatures (I am a such-and-such) on other message boards.

[Yqatuba]

I'm mostly curious about what other people say they would be.

[Foeclan]

My GM frequently runs avatar games, where we're playing versions of ourselves. Sometimes it's superhero games set in modern day, where we get powers, sometimes it's along the lines of the D&D cartoon and we get pulled into a fantasy world.

When I made myself in D&D 3e I was a Rogue. I was a software and hardware QA person at the time, and figured picking a class focused around Disable Device would be appropriate, since disassembling and/or destroying things was basically my job.

When I made myself in Pathfinder for our current game, I went with a mix of Vigilante and Alchemist. My Vigilante identity is True Neutral, and is sort of a psychological defense mechanism to let me adventure without the guilt about killing people and creatures, which I don't think I could bring myself to do in real life (I even live trap mice).

If I went with 'Me today as a Pathfinder race/class combo', it'd probably be a Dwarven Investigator. I have a shirt that says 'That's what I do, I grow a beard and I know things,' and it pretty much sums me up perfectly.

[Reksew_Trebla]

Foeclan wrote:

My GM frequently runs avatar games, where we're playing versions of ourselves.

Stealing this.

[Lord Fyre]

I didn't think "Dirty Old Man" was a character type.

[Kimera757]

Yqatuba wrote:

If you made yourself into a Pathfinder character what would you be? For me I'd say a human (Ulfen probably) NG wizard who worships Desna.

Real people don't cast spells. :)

More seriously, I've played in a game like that once and it wasn't interesting at all. It even caused hard feelings (some PCs were excluded from adventuring - a simple zombie invasion of a modern-day setting - because they weren't considered "useful" by other players).

I would probably be considered a low-level expert with an above average Intelligence score (15 to 16, probably slightly higher than the typical Int 13 expert), a decent Dexterity score and a flaw that gives a penalty to initiative. (I did a reaction speed test recently and was surprised to find my reaction speed was pretty average, when I thought it was terrible.) I would be 1st or 2nd-level only.

[Tacticslion]

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[Cole Deschain]

Given my general state of exercise, diet, and health, I'd be some sort of terrible sub-optimal Expert with decent intelligence, tolerable wisdom and charisma, garbage dexterity and constitution, and moderately acceptable strength.

It wouldn't be pretty.