Your Favourite Role-Playing Game characters!
(I am sorry if there was already such a post - I searched the forums for the words RPG and Role-Playing in titles and found nothing.)
I was thinking for some time about making a thread in which people can show off their coolest RPG characters. It would be better if you post about PnP characters, since they usually have more depth than CRPG characters, although both are welcome.
I will start with my coolest one: Fredegar Milestone! (Said with a French accent.)
Fredegar happens to be the unlikely character of a level 5 French-accented-hobbit-swashbuckler. As expected, he is arrogant, although not as over-confident as some NPC he meets. His favourite insult (currently) is 'Barbarian'. His alignment is currently Neutral.
Game: Dungeons and Dragons. (the DM's personal edition.)
Special skills/feats:
Smoke-Art: usage of his pipe-smoke in order to impress others and gain advantage during combat. (The only way a hobbit can fight and still look like a hobbit.)
Illusions: Fredegar can make others believe that his hair is on fire, or that he is 4 metres tall. (But not both at the same time.)
Jump-Attack: Fredegar can jump a great distance, and use it for his advantage in battle.
Insult-Swordfighting: Updated: Fredegar doesn't get any bonus from it yet, but he got a critical hit when threatening the enemy with death from above before performing a high jump attack.
UPDATED: Tropes that fit the character:
Acceptable Professional Target: Knights. Being a swashbuckler, it is quite natural for him to dislike heavily armoured cowards who receive respect and never show it back. (In his opinion, at least, although most knights seen in the campaign fit the description quite well.) He also dislikes barbarians, and gives this definition generously. Barbarian is Fredegar's favourite insult.
Catch Phrase: Barbarian.
Coup de Grace: When he doesn't get the chance to deliver one to a 'boss', he pretends to with a varying degree of success.
Glass Cannon: To some degree: Only the wizard has less hit points than Fredegar. However, he does have the best armour class in the party (and can improve the party's armour class with an aura) and the best saving throws. He IS a swashbuckler, which in this case means that he is even faster than the centaur (while the latter wears armour, at least) and has a counter attack ability and extremely accurate attacks, which he can boost with his skills.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He is a pipe smoking hobbit, which is an indicator for good smoking, of course!
The Hero: When he met the party, he didn't offer to join them. He offered to lead them. They accepted, and Fredegar doesn't forget that. His lancer is Sir (or is that Ser?) Rodlin, a centaur knight who happens to be an actual lancer.
Self Proclaimed Heroes Prefer Swords
Royal Rapier
Overly Long Gag: When a party character really anoyed him, he told him the following insult: 'May the others take you and make you one of them! Then, may you be sent to the Oblivion, and may a rain of
Swashbuckler: Without a buckler.
Too Cool to Die: Fredegar survived more than one battle with one hitpoint.
You Fight Like a Cow
Secret Goals:
So, what do you say about Fredegar? And do you have other cool characters to post?
I was thinking for some time about making a thread in which people can show off their coolest RPG characters. It would be better if you post about PnP characters, since they usually have more depth than CRPG characters, although both are welcome.
I will start with my coolest one: Fredegar Milestone! (Said with a French accent.)
Fredegar happens to be the unlikely character of a level 5 French-accented-hobbit-swashbuckler. As expected, he is arrogant, although not as over-confident as some NPC he meets. His favourite insult (currently) is 'Barbarian'. His alignment is currently Neutral.
Game: Dungeons and Dragons. (the DM's personal edition.)
Special skills/feats:
Smoke-Art: usage of his pipe-smoke in order to impress others and gain advantage during combat. (The only way a hobbit can fight and still look like a hobbit.)
Illusions: Fredegar can make others believe that his hair is on fire, or that he is 4 metres tall. (But not both at the same time.)
Jump-Attack: Fredegar can jump a great distance, and use it for his advantage in battle.
Insult-Swordfighting: Updated: Fredegar doesn't get any bonus from it yet, but he got a critical hit when threatening the enemy with death from above before performing a high jump attack.
UPDATED: Tropes that fit the character:
Acceptable Professional Target: Knights. Being a swashbuckler, it is quite natural for him to dislike heavily armoured cowards who receive respect and never show it back. (In his opinion, at least, although most knights seen in the campaign fit the description quite well.) He also dislikes barbarians, and gives this definition generously. Barbarian is Fredegar's favourite insult.
Catch Phrase: Barbarian.
Coup de Grace: When he doesn't get the chance to deliver one to a 'boss', he pretends to with a varying degree of success.
Glass Cannon: To some degree: Only the wizard has less hit points than Fredegar. However, he does have the best armour class in the party (and can improve the party's armour class with an aura) and the best saving throws. He IS a swashbuckler, which in this case means that he is even faster than the centaur (while the latter wears armour, at least) and has a counter attack ability and extremely accurate attacks, which he can boost with his skills.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He is a pipe smoking hobbit, which is an indicator for good smoking, of course!
The Hero: When he met the party, he didn't offer to join them. He offered to lead them. They accepted, and Fredegar doesn't forget that. His lancer is Sir (or is that Ser?) Rodlin, a centaur knight who happens to be an actual lancer.
Self Proclaimed Heroes Prefer Swords
Royal Rapier
Overly Long Gag: When a party character really anoyed him, he told him the following insult: 'May the others take you and make you one of them! Then, may you be sent to the Oblivion, and may a rain of
obsidian
fall upon you, and kill you, as you are one of the others!'Swashbuckler: Without a buckler.
Too Cool to Die: Fredegar survived more than one battle with one hitpoint.
You Fight Like a Cow
Secret Goals:
Gain reputation before level 7. (At level 7, characters in the game gain reputation.)
Change the Night's Watch robe colour to white, as it seems more effective. (Our campaign is partially based on 'A Song of Ice and Fire'. Only our DM, who is older than the players, read it, so it works well.)
So, what do you say about Fredegar? And do you have other cool characters to post?
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His character sheet no longer exists, but I remember him being a Neutral Good Ranger whose species enemy was the rabbit
D&D 2nd edition
Her whole reason for joining up was basically after a solo mission she'd gotten drunk at a bar and totaled the place, which got her arrested. She then busted out and tore up a good chunk of the town doing so, spotted the group leaving and joined up because they were going to a location pretty much on the other side of the continent.
If it's the latter then Minsc from the Baldur's Gate series, because he is AWESOME. What could be better than a berserker ranger whose animal companion is a miniature giant space hamster? Special mentions also go to Jan Jansen the eccentric gnome, Xan the depressed Elven wizard, Xzar the insane evil wizard and Montaron the evil halfling. (who's voiced by Earl Boen!)
If we're talking about characters we play ourselves, then it would be a coin-toss between Leona Osaki (you get a cookie if you know where I stole the real name from) AKA 'Relay' from the Deadlands: Hell on Earth campaign I was in a few years ago, and Kirstyn Liess, my current second-edition Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay character who is one failed Willpower roll away from becoming an officially mad wizard.
Relay was a 17 year-old Junker, which is basically a cross between a mad scientist and a shaman. They use machine spirits of various forms to power devices that really shouldn't work, the GM would give be a bonus to rolls to build them if I drew out 'blueprints' first. Some of Relay's weirder inventions were remote-controlled robotic spy roaches and her own version of an Irken backpack. And her pet project/the party's mode of transportation was a heavily armed and armoured Winnebago named 'Mustang Sally'. I miss that campaign.
Kirstyn Liess is a wizard of the Celestial College and can be best described as somewhere between Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet and Munstrum Ridcully from Discworld. Her hobbies include being the only 'good' member of a morally-ambivalent party, being the only (questionably) sane member of the party, blasting things with lightning and occasionally freaking out and attacking birds because they're all spies for Tzeentch. Bloody birds. She's also the toughest member of the party due to the randomly-generated statline WFRP uses, which has led to a lot of jokes being made about her 'sturdy hips'. In fact, the party has used her as a honeypot trap twice, to her everlasting disdain. Fun times!
I second this. Even when I had more powerful supporting characters I would always ensure that HK-47 was in my party just to hear his hilarious commentary.
I also liked Atton Rand in KotOR II quite a lot, especially on the Dark Side path when he slowly turns into a sadistic bastard. He gets almost as funny as HK-47 at times.
If its these instead of your tabletop RPG characters my favorite in the latter category would be the following
- The lady in Persona 4 who sits in the shopping district and extols the virtues of the square button
- The little toad kid in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars who you play with. He just amused the hell out of me, especially when he shoots Mario in the face.
- Ryotaro Dojima and Nanako from Persona 4, they were just fun characters and I loved working on their social links.
- The random NPC duo who stood near the entrance to Muladhara in Digital Devil Saga who talk about how they're going to kick so much ass in the next raid.
- Hisano, the sweet old lady who announces she's death. She also is the death social link in Persona 4 if you couldn't tell (Yes, I'm in love with Atlus' NPCs, they're awesome).
- judge Grindstump from TMI. He just made me laugh every time I talked to him.
In terms of PCs (non-D&D this time), it would be a tie between Serph of Digital Devil Saga and the Silent Protagonist (named Drake Case in my game, as an homage to a badass bounty hunter I was playing in an RP at a time and to Case of Neuromancer) of Persona 4. Serph less so because your decisions only had effects on certain aspects of the plot, whereas it felt your decisions had more impact as the P4 protagonist.
My favourite NPCs are the following:
Gondol: (On the same campaign which Fredegar belongs to)
Gondol is a half goblin who loves cheese. He claims to be a powerful magician, and uses his powers randomly. He tells tales about himself, which begin in 'Once, when Gondol was hungry...' and resemble lines 3-6 of the third scene of Macbeth.
He also often steals items from PCs just to give them back to others, and sometimes the party finds itself with junk items in our inventory.
When he came to our party, he decided to make a party of his own, to which we all belong. Furthermore, he also decided that he is King Gondol the First. Currently, he is the court jester of queen Daenerys. (As mentioned before, this campaign is partially based on 'A Song of Ice and Fire'.) He got this position after he stood in her court and demanded that she fills his request. She was going to execute him, but then he said that his demand is a wheel of cheese.
Charlie: (On my campaign)
Charlie is a warrior, but the main idea of his character is that he is one of the characters who appear out of the blue and says something like 'Yeah, that's right.' They often go back to the background after this. (A good example is this video.)
Charlie has a (currently unseen) brother. His name is Archie. Charlie mentions him on every possible occasion. Instead of saying 'yeah, that's right,' Charlie will say 'Yeah, that's right. Archie's a good fellow, he is.' He didn't appear out of the blue and said it yet, but I am going to try make it happen in the most unexpected moments.
It's a talking skull that follows you wherever you go.
correct Rather Dashing.
In my opinion, it is fine if people stray a little from the topic, but I really don't understand people who prefer to reply to a post before they read it. And please, tell us why you like the characters, or explain a little about them.
Clint Punchkick
He's a rogue halfling, mostly that is. He claims to be the very best in "stealth and shit", but all he can ever do is cause death and destruction. In some cases deliberately.
As a kid, he used to be bullied by all the kids because he wasn't awesome enough, so Clint decided to have his revenge by training to become a rogue so that he could one day sneak into the homes of the bullies, take out a knife and cut several holes in the sacks where their lunch money is stowed so that next time they wouldn't have any money to pay for lunch.
Yeah, he's fairly incompetent.
Prince Peasley? Cackletta? Popple? Queen Bean? ...I give up.
In Hellgate: London I love my Evoker Selune. Her real name was Sandra but she lost her fiance to the Demons and have discovered her powers, and joined the Cabalist's to kill her enemies and get her revenge.
In Sacred 2 at the moment I love being the Dragon Mage, he is a Dragon Knight specialised in the Dragon Magic aspect to turn into either a Dragon Frenzy to deal with bosses or tougher enemies or Dragon Form to spray fire on groups of monsters.
And when non of those is available, calling dragons to rain fiery death on the battle field, or burn monsters in his path.
(I find this an appropriate place to get my 500'th post, as I love RPG
I have that problem not so much with D&D but with Call of Cthuhlu. I've wanted to give it a try for ages, but no one I know has the books or even wants to give it a try.
I loved how right when he was born, he can take down 2 INVINCIBLE bad guys, and his attitude, plus he can make you go faster if you let him carry you(is that considered child abusement?)
Agree with all of these, especially Minsc (and Boo, you can't forget Boo when mentioning Minsc!), plus Imoen, felt she was good too. And Irenicus as a great villain. Oh and plus:
A comic relief character with hidden depths. But then all the NPC companions in PS:T were awesome.
I updated Fredegar's description with a selection of tropes about him, so check the first page again.
It's a case of tl;dr