Lunchtime Poll #2: Bizarro World
I’m posting this week’s poll a day early, as one or two of you may have extensive plans for Thursday.
What’s the strangest character you’ve ever played?
For me, the hands-down winner was the drug-addicted, intelligence-enhanced, megalomaniacal, practical-joking, bomb-finding dolphin who was “on loan” from the U. S. Navy. Curiously enough, the character wasn’t one I came up with on my own. It was pre-generated for a one-shot game that Doug ran. It was also the only character in that game that truly appealed to me. Normally, I’m against talking animals on the grounds that everyone wants to make them cutesy. Given that I was providing the voice, though, that did not happen. I set out to play the character with one of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes in mind—”Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.”
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November 23rd, 2004 at 8:39 am
That’s a game I wish I’d still been around for… oh well.
November 23rd, 2004 at 9:23 am
Lunchtime Poll #2: Bizarro World
Ravings of a Textual Deviant ? Lunchtime Poll #2: Bizarro World Li’s LP this time involves the bizarre. What?s the strangest character you?ve ever played?…
November 23rd, 2004 at 10:34 am
Lunchtime Poll 2 :: Bizarro World
Hmmm. As a GM, I’ve done some pretty strange things. Villains in particular can be very, very odd.
November 23rd, 2004 at 11:52 am
Lunchtime Poll 2: Bizarro World
This week Li asks: What’s the strangest character you’ve ever played? I’m not much for overtly “strange” characters, because I…
November 23rd, 2004 at 1:36 pm
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November 24th, 2004 at 6:15 pm
Lunchtime Poll #2
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November 25th, 2004 at 9:32 am
Lunchtime Poll #2 — Characters Are Strange
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December 10th, 2004 at 10:30 am
I can’t say I am at the level of the evil dolphin…but I can identify with the concept to a degree.
In my games, esp with people who were tired of the same old fighter/mage/cleric/thief choices (or variations thereof) I would offer other ideas.
Strangely, it often revolved Barbarians.
In one case an uneducated Barbarian forced the party to do stupid things. Allowing the player to continue being an idiot he, of course, got himself killed. The player (OOC) immediately demanded of the other he be brought to a temple to be resurrected…cost to be covered by his mates. Needless to say, the resident Priest was not home, but his disciple was…and would work cheap. He didn’t let on, however, that while he had reincarnate…he had not yet mastered ressurection. The Barbarian was raised back a Minotaur which worked well with the party for two reasons: 1) The Minotaur did not lose the physical benefits the party required of a sword-slinger and 2) as a Minotaur his character was limited to two (2) monosyllabic words per minute…at most.
In the other case we had a character who wanted to be a sword-wielding Barabrian but was tired of the cliches. He spiced it up…He came in as a level 7 Barbarian who was reincarnated as a gnome. We let him keep the skills and knowledge while adapting to the idea that he had to cope with the reality of a 2′ frame. It was entertaining to a fault that this little character would drag around a 5′ long Bastard sword behind him…because it belonged to his dead father and his honor was at stake.
So yes, sometimes you have to shake things up. If anyone here has read the Myth Adventures series by Asprin, those were all characters created in one of his D&D games.