Welcome to the /tg/ OC thread.
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Tell us about your original characters, new and old. Let's hear some stories of valor and glory and build some legends in here.
>THIS THREAD IS PRIMARILY FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND SHOWING OFF YOUR FAVORITES FROM YOUR GAMES
It's like the Storythread, but centered on characters that we all know and help make. Your Original Character can be any character you've played, are playing, or want to play!
>WHEN POSTING YOUR OC
Give us a little blurb about your character, this is a brag thread after all. Some basic questions to get you started:
• Name:
• Role(s):
• Goals:
• Traits:
• Flaws:
• Allies:
• Enemies:
• Other Relations:
• Physical Description:
>WHAT'S YOUR OCs MARY SUE SCORE?
http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysue.htm
Write and share stories about each others' characters (use a pastebin for works that would take up multiple posts). Draw and share pictures of each others' characters (please link offsite in the event of NSFW work).
Ask questions about other anons characters and get to know their stories, and tell us all about your own.
Need help developing a new character concept? Ask away! Answering the periodically posted Development Questions can often help, so look for those.
This thread is intended to be all in good spirit, so please remember to be excellent to each other, and try to contribute in some way. If you can't draw, write something for someone and vice versa.
>IF YOU JUST NEED CHARACTER ART, GO TO THE DRAW THREAD
There are more artists consistently there that are actively looking for requests to fill, that's not the case here.
>DON'T MAKE A NEW THREAD UNTIL PAGE 10
Use new art from these threads as OP image when possible.
GoogleDoc of the characters so far (still in progress, so don't be alarmed if you don't see yours) https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_dUy0Yo4cigbTB1Q1g5bTRvcTQ&usp=sharing
Development Question: How often does your character party?
>Name
Joshua Troy, Shadow Name: Ajax
>Roles
Socialite, Witch
>Goals
Figuring out the mystery that tied all his allies together whilst still enjoying human life.
>Traits
Protective, Charismatic, Proud
>Flaws
Can get egocentric, lech, doesn't know when to shut up, occasionally manipulating.
>Allies
His best friend Quintarius, a sin-eater, his girlfriend Samantha, werewolf FBI agent Burke, and the residents of his condominium. Oh yeah, and his bar's owner, Lucifer.
>Enemies
His father, a demon named Sin.
>Other Relations
His younger sister who he raised, and his mother who's gone missing.
>Physical Description
Image related.
>How often does your character party?
A whole lot, actually. Not as much as he used to, but a lot.
Name:
Kaiger Stancaster
>• Role(s):
Barbarian, keeps the party in line and hits things really hard, and Lord of the Orcish Clans
>• Goals:
Prove to his clan and human family he isn't worthless, find something that he can beat his sister in and become a hero in a bard story
>• Traits:
He's short tempered,gung-ho and egotistical but he tries to maintain some sense of honor. Also major mama's boy
>• Flaws:
He's gullible if there's a chance of battle/murder he's usually all for it. His short temper has lead to him brutalizing party members.
>• Allies:
The Dragon Bard; Marijuano Blaze, the Dank Elf of Prophecy; the Bonecrusher Clan; and a dwarven city state
>• Enemies:
Cult of Talona, Demorgorgon,Pelor,Pelor's angels and a handful of a human nobles
>• Other Relations:
Agatha,his twin sister who succeeds at everything she tries and Ganar his older flamboyant brother
>• Physical Description:
Kaiger stands at 5'11 with an athletic build. He has short black hair and green eyes with a manly stubble. He wears red dragon scale armor,dragon horn bracers and a black wolf pelt(all of these things he's killed or had a hand in killing). The wolf pelt looks worn and torn. His weapon of choice is a bastard sword of his own creation Moon's Terror, he smelted down a Death Knight's long sword and a deceased party member's bastard sword El Chakal. The blade's hilt is black with the pommel of a crescent moon and the in the center of the cross guard a side profile of a wolf howling with a red gem for an eye
>Development Question: How often does your character party?
He drinks a fair amount but never really 'parties'. I think he went carrousing one time and he blacked out. The next he found himself in an alleyway and the town gave him the nickname 'Kaiger the Kegger'.
>>47815038
What did he do to piss off a neutral good God of healing?
>>47815071
So his weapon is Moon's Terror a combination of a Death Knight sword and El Chakal. It turned out that El Chakal was a holy relic of Pelor and the party bumped into one of Pelor's angels and demanded that Kaiger handed it over so that they can purify it. He essentially told them the fuck off but the party managed to convince the angel not to murder the fuck out of him.
>>47815090
What's El Chakal?
>>47815171
It's a longsword that the party member,Clethentit McCheeks, found and named it in a middle of a dungeon. El Chakal had the magical ability to fire a beam of radiant light once per day and everytime Clethentit used it, it missed. The first time it blew up part of the moon and the party has yet to see the extent of the moon's damage because we've yet to see a full moon(despite being months since it happened). Clethentit eventually offed himself because a party member stole El Chakal from him. Kaiger took El Chakal from the party member and threatened to kill him if he pulled that shit again because it was dishonorable and he tolerated Clethentit a bit more than this character.
Sorry if I'm rambling.
>>47815262
McCheeks killed himself because he was robbed?
>>47815293
Clethentit McCheeks killed himself because he was robbed yes. Clethentit McCheeks is also a 13 year old in the body of a 30 year old so he was never the brightest around.
>>47815307
Welp. That must have been bound to happen, with a name like that.
>>47815317
Clethentit McCheeks
>be half-Orc bastard
>mom leaves you in an alleyway hoping you'll die
>someone takes pity on you and takes you to an orphanage
>fall into the wrong crowd and join a gang called the Inglorious Bastards
>out doing hooligan shit
>you black out and you realize that you're 30
>5 charisma so you're ugly on top of having a hard life and having a shitty name
Being Clethentit was suffering
Played this one awhile back but the game fell apart due to people not being able to show up consistently. Considering playing it again in a different game, any major changes I should make?
>>47815435
Sounds solid to me. I can't think of anything really to add or modify
>>47814821
You're trolling for ready-made NPCs, aren't you?
>>47816284
Do you mean trawling?
What's your OC's favorite hobby?
>>47816465
Ploughing hoes and working his wood.Gardening at his orchard.
>>47816465
>>47814987 likes going to bars and clubs, and seduces women to see how they react. He likes social manipulation a lot. His other hobby could basically be said to be sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. The two aren't mutually exclusive, actually.
• Name: Soulless Sir Coram
• Role(s): knight in exile, magic sword enthusiast, alchemist, the least religious ordained priest on the planet
• Goals: stop being a fuckmothering vampire, ideally after the realm is made safe and stable, aaaaand maybe after putting a century or two in with the waifu. Goddamn elves and their unreasonable lifespans.
• Traits: a grunt's grunt in knightly plate who swears or complains constantly, ends up in fights twice a day, and prefers doing to talking to the point of doing without telling anyone. Under that, he harbours a quiet devotion to what he thinks his faith should be like, and dedication to an earthy sort of chivalry.
• Flaws: abrasive, thinks in terms of duty and obligation above anything else (and undeath didn't help with that), detached (and not willing to adapt) from local society and culture, not very good at talking to people outside of official settings or the military.
• Allies: the party, three sisters, dame Neferi the mercenary matriarch, Rampart the magic-seeking murderdog.
• Enemies: the cult of Dagon, plus the sea and everything in it in general. The cult of Set plus snakes and everything similar to snakes. The goddamn meddling cleric. Dad.
• Other Relations: Several mercenary captains and hedge knights from the bad old days, an extended family with sticky fingers and holy symbols in many affairs, illicit or otherwise, an astonishing amount of elves.
• Physical Description: A short-ish, pale skinned bloke with the grace and poise of a brick shithouse, and the shaven head to match. Eternal three day scruff due to being killed in a somewhat unkempt state. Most of the body covered in warding tattoos against mind magic and possession.
>What's your OC's favorite hobby?
Playing weiqi with his confessor. He gets his ass handed to him on a silver platter with a side of garlic nine times out of ten, but by now it's a ritual, and they both like taking an hour or two off from the world every few days.
>>47814987
He seems to have quite the group of allies. How the hell does that even happen?
>>47816547
He seduces them just to see what happens? Why?
>>47816465
>>47815435
Aside from reading and making magical items (because duh wizard), the last incarnation of this character liked to play board-games, and was kind of a munchkin about it. I shamelessly ripped off that line Virion says from Fire Emblem though, where he says even though he won, it'd never work in a real battle because his troops would have his head on a stake long before the battle was finished. (And indeed, this character was far from a good leader in any REAL fight. I was sorta deliberately poking fun at the "theorycraft" mentality.)
Also a bit of "cooking", although being the only elf in the party I thought it'd be funny to describe the spices she used as extremely bitter and unpleasant to everyone else in the party. Dem elves and their weird tastes, y'know.
>>47816392
Both are fishing metaphors.
What specific fear does your character have that is not related to violence/combat/monsters?
>>47816999
>>47815435
>Drowning
I dunno, all my characters sorta have this phobia. I blame IRL experiences.
>Being poisoned
So, before the whole wizard thing happened, my character was practicing to become an alchemist, as explained in the blurb. Turns out, when you're making medicine for sick/injured people, mistakes are a really really bad thing to make. Alchemy teacher sorta drove in this point to her apprentices by having them test everything they made on themselves, even when she knew they had made a (non-fatal) mistake. Nothing motivates you to be careful like vomiting your guts out for 3 days. Unfortunately it sorta made the character super wary of taking potions prepared by anyone else unless a party member tested it first.
>Drow
Sorta related to monsters, but not so much in the sense of having any personal experiences with them, and more in the sense that they were the object of spooky childhood stories and stuff. Do you know they roam the forest at night and look for lost elven who wander too far from the village? Then when they catch you, they drag you underground for experiments where they drain your blood and replace it with drow blood and you BECOME a drow?! (She KNOWS on an intellectual level that these stories are dumb, but when you've grown up with them...)
>Mind-Controlling magic
Won't touch it. Will never ever trust anyone whom she knows uses it. The idea is just incredibly unsettling to her.
(Last game I used mind-control magic, and all the other schools of magic because magic is magic and there is no good or evil magic... but some "unfortunate implications" came up and I think I'd avoid it a second time around.)
Well, chronicler is mia so you guys get to hear me chew my nails. Anyone else submitted some writing to The Bard Quarterly?
>>47818186
What?
Feels awesome to see my character/doodle in the OP, thanks somebody.
>Name
Luvos Nichto
>Role
Planar Explorer, Diabolic Conjurer, Guest Villain
>Goals
To remain on the forefront of knowledge, exploration, and change. Luvos is in the process of writing a series of encyclopedias of planar knowledge. He is experimenting with means of achieving immortality and slowly perfecting his revenge against his wizard peers.
>Traits
Luvos has little respect for conventions. He enjoys the fleeting nature of comprehension and more enjoys the hunt for knowledge itself. He has demonstrated a frightening degree of patience and a somewhat obsessive personality. He is easily flustered. Luvos is attracted to forbidden knowledge and other things an authority figure says are dangerous this is derived from a desire to overcompensate and impress others by taming such dangerous things. Growing up as a half-drow raised by humans has given him an affinity for the taboo and makes him feel like a kindred spirit to most things labelled as evil and secretive.
>Flaws
In addition to having little respect for tradition, Luvos' time spent exploring the multiverse and planescape has left him reluctant to put any faith in the moral boundaries of any one plane. He has picked up the habit of introducing himself in fancier and fancier nonsensical titles. He believes he is the smartest person in any room but that everyone seems to know something he doesn't. Any attempts at appearing friendly are usually hindered by his creepy and overblown mannerisms, lack of social awareness, and the stench of brimstone clinging to his robes.
>Allies
A animated foot stool with the personality of a terrier and a clumsy broomstick.
>Physical Description
Luvos is a young looking man swathed in several layers of dark robes, he is hooded at most times and has dusky grey skin which shows on his face and finger tips. His drow heritage has gives him his yellow eyes and aversion to sunlight. He has sharp features and poor posture.
Here's all my stories I've written so far, working on a new one right now http://pastebin.com/ZBf8sSx7
>>47816999
Luvos is afraid of the ocean, overbearing sunlight, no land for a solid structure, book ruining water everywhere.
>>47816465
Luvos favorite hobby besides the obvious reading is spying on people in his scrying orb, it appeases his jealous and curious nature to watch people, learn things about them they never meant to share and get to covet what they have.
>>47814821
Luvos doesn't party very often by virtue of being alone, the closest he comes is conjuring up succubi to shower him with praise. His mary sue score was an eight.
>>47818229
I assumed word had made it here already
Since it hasnt, Ill be going.
Tell me about the relationships in your party - not just your OCs, but of your other party members.
>>47819735
They're all kinds of fucked up.
>Bard Diva has been pregnant since session 1 with her husbando noble's baby, and last session we discovered husbando was not only an antagonist, but a monstrous one engaged in hideous blood experiments. We have no idea what's going to slither out of that girl's womb.
>Oracle had a pretty but quite simple village girl that proclaimed her love for our Oracle under the harvest moon and begged him to stay with her and start a family. He denied her (she didn't realize her childhood crush was gay,) and we left the next morning. Things got awkward when we discovered she ran after the party and got turned into a vampire after a local blood-sucking aristocrat noticed the lovely farm-girl in the big city.
>Magus is totally asexual, no relationships on that front
>Human Slayer knocked up a Hamadryad when he was young and had to care for the changeling child that came from it after she had to flee to a magical refuge when the BBEG started hunting for her. We're about to reunite with the Hamadryad, but the DM said she is dying as her magical energy seeps out to maintain the barriers protecting the village from monsters.Sigmund might become a widower before he even gets a chance to settle down with Aomeda.
>>47819735
Well the paladin married the elf, the dogman wooed some sort of goddess into having his puppies, there's a married couple of elves sharing one body, another elf everything and their cat wants to bang, yet another elf that takes treehugging a bit more literally than usual, another knight that wants to bang the bangbait elf but never will... it gets a bit complicated, and there are more elves.
>>47816999
Armadillos
Kaiger doesn't know why he's scared of them but he's extremely terrified of them.
>>47816999
>>47816600
Being paralysed, charmed, or otherwise rendered helpless or compliant. Mental illness or tampering. Failure and inadequacy. The sea, but that's less 'drowning' and more 'shit that lives there', so it's semi-monster related. Wild elves in a similar vein.
Character development question: At what time has your character felt the most scared?
How did your character overcome this fear if at all?
>>47816999
Valaane is horribly claustrophobic and fears the 'true' end (aka a final death) for herself or any close allies. If something can't 'come back', she'd probably break down.
>>47820483
Luvos was probably the most terrified for the weeks he was watching his old master slowly wither away on his death bed, part of him wanted to help save the old wizard so he wouldn't have to be alone again but part of him also wanted access to all the forbidden books and rituals that he knew the guy had. He couldn't figure out which scenario scared him more being alone or not getting to learn what he'd been seeking for a long time in the end the poor old guy died because Luvos was too scared to ever come in and help him, kind of made the decision for him.
>>47819735
HOO boy. Q is in a relationship with a vampire which may or may not be derived from a bloodbond, Josh is a polygamist because he doesn't believe in commitment because daddy issues, has a stalker who heard about him in the future and found an Iris back in time to get to him, and the werewolf is completely oblivious over the women pining for his attention, too busy hunting the man that killed his family. All in all, pretty standard for the world of darkness.
>>47816699
Well, his best friend and he were normal people until Q tripped down a flight of stairs, died and came back. Josh had been going through a long term acanthus Awakening for the past year, and he didn't know; thought his luck had just turned around. The agent became their acquaintance when he needed to interrogate them in relation to a case. And as for why he does that? He enjoys adjusting social situations to see how things changes, the similar patterns some people have. He seduces them in a way that they approach him, and he sees how they do so. It's part of what caused his Awakening.
>>47820483
More answers! Josh was most scared when he was first coming into the world of the supernatural. He had been assaulted by a spirit, found out he was a mage after a strange fever dream, his new condo was filled with ghosts and a vampire. This was a man who up to that point had just skated by on his looks. And has overcome this fear? Well, sort of. He isn't overwhelmed by all of it anymore, but he still encounters things that terrify him, like when he started noticing people with fiery green eyes noticing him, and moving in a photo like the fucking grudge.
>Name
Kabe-chan
>Goals
Make America great again. Build a wall, fast
>Traits
Kabe-chan is a benevolent and bubbly source of patriotism and good in the world, she can be a bit boisterous at times and just wants what's best for America.
>Flaws
Ha!
>Allies
Trump-sama is Kabe-chans closest ally and an ally to the entire free world. Kabe-chan is good friends with the American people.
>Enemies
Bernie-jukeisha cannot be trusted.
>>47822440
See, now this is a waifu I can get behind.
>>47822440
>>Flaws
>Ha!
she a shit
Ever so slightly closer to being finished.
>>47824713
Looks good can't wait to see it done.
>>47822440
>>47819735
It's a complete trainwreck to be honest...
>Party Ranger has a wife who he met adventuring but ran away from in the night to continue seeking a life of glory and adventure.
>The Cleric is in an on and off hatefuck thing with the necromancer who murdered her ex in one of their necromantic experiments.
>The rogue is a delusional high elf with delusions of grandeur and is saving himself for 'The Queen of the Drow' and fully intends to become the lord of the Drow somehow.
>The afformentioned Necromancer is a sexually liberal sociopath who has a checklist of sentient races she has yet to kill and a checklist of races she has yet to fuck.
That isn't to say anything about their players though who are all reasonably normal people but this campaign has been devolving ever since their original DM threw a fit, TPK'd them and left.
>>47822494
>>47822820
>>47823652
>>47826624
>implying this isn't my maid rpg character
>>47826679
Woah that's dysfunctional as all hell.
>>47816465
Kaiger's favorite hobby is probably listening to bard songs and just listening to stories. That or hunting.
>>47820483
Two times
The first watching Demogorgon, the Prince of Demons, a rise from an ocean in the Underdark. The mere presensce of this god made the majority of the party go insane.In Kaiger's own insanity he couldn't help but laugh at how helpless they all were in this situation
The second instance was going to Hell was intially fun for Kaiger. He got slaughter demons 'n shit like a good hero then he met the Death Knight who's name was forgotten by time. He gave the party an ultimatum to serve him or die. We're a lvl 4 party. Most the of the group is missing so it's only Kaiger(barbarian),Marijuano Blaze(Warlock),Erroneous(Cleric) and the Bard. We knew we couldn't take this fucker. The bard was trying to swindle our way out of it but the Death Knight wasn't haven't it. The half-orc was silent most of the conversation just being in the presensce of such a fearsome foe. But then he remembered that they still had stop a god and a death cult. The heroes that the Bard and his mom told him about didn't back down when all seemed lost. So he spoke "So you're offer is death or to make us monsters? It seems like a monster is the perfect label for a half-orc. I mean that's everyone calls us. Orcs are the servants of evil. So let me let me tell you this, my story is going to be like those and it won't end serving an ass like you." and he proceeded to mange to land a blow on the Death Knight.
I apologized quickly out of character. The Bard decided to sit the fuck out of this but Marijuano and Erroneous backed up Kaiger. The fight pretty much went Kaiger hits the Death Knight, Death Knight downs Kaiger, one of them had Kaiger get back up while tries to hurt the Death Knight. We managed to get this asshole down to 15 hp but apparently he had a demilich skull on him so he did some that damn near killed us and healed him for all the damage we took.
>• Name:
Amon Farris
>• Role(s):
Scholar, Mage, Amateur Alchemist
>• Goals:
To discover the true nature of magic, why it exists, and what made it exist
>• Traits:
A cynical, pessimistic coward, Amon is one who'd much rather let others do the fighting for him as he scours ancient ruins for lost knowledge. Walks with a limp and uses a cane.
>• Flaws:
Is oftentimes too afraid to get anything done, manipulative, a debbie downer, and refuses to work with mages not sanctioned by the government.
>• Allies:
The fellow spellcasters and scholars at the Mage's Guild hall.
>• Enemies:
All rogue mages, a treasure hunter named Yorik who's after an indecipherable tablet Amon found
>• Other Relations:
The instructors and teachers at his old magic academy, the Kingsmeet Wolves mercenary guild, whom he's employed on many of his expeditions.
>• Physical Description:
A rather ugly, pale and short man. He stands at around 5'6" with a skinny, but relatively fit build. He has black, graying hair that just reaches his shoulders, and has a large, crooked nose. He often wears padded armor covered by a coat, and a wide-brimmed hat. Due to an injury he sustained years ago, he also carries a cane to assist in walking long distances, and is rarely seen without it.
>Development Question: How often does your character party?
Never ever at the moment. However, if he was invited to some kind of royal ball of some sort, or an equally prestigious gathering, he would most certainly attend it out of good manners alone.
>>47819735
As in romantic relationships?
>Kaiger
He has a crush on a half-elf tavern owner but knows full well that she isn't in to him.
>The Dragon's Bard,pretty sure he lacks a sex drive but he originally planned on wooing Kaiger's sister. Not out of love for or spite to Kaiger, he just hates how seemingly perfect she is. No one likes a story who never fails so his plan to make her fall in love with him then he was going to break her heart. He changed his plan after meeting her because he realized that she could and would probably kill him
>Marijuano Blaze the Dank Elf of Prophecy
He was formerly in a relationship with a childhood friend but he broke it off so he could see the world. He's known to sleep with barmaids if he gets bored/high enough
>Clethentit McCheeks
He was an ugly and dumb but he once banged an entire town of Dwarves
>Erroneous,
He has split personality and his primary personality seems to pure for this world or relationships. The second one doesn't come out enough but I could be wrong. He's been away from the party and the player and DM have had some back and forth in PMs.
There's like four-five more characters but the gist is they're all single.
The OC above and below you must team up to defeat the antagonist in the last thing you've watched. How does it go?
>>47827846
Coram, Luvos, and Amon team up? Probably less of a team and more of maybe all of them getting lost in the same ruins or some shit.
>>47828159
I missed the second part of that question, they team up to defeat some a super kobold wolf guy from an anime. Sounds about right.
>Name:
Emese Szarka, Ban-In-Waiting of Whitemarrow
>Role(s):
Duellist, Spy, Diplomat, Nobility
>Goals:
Dedicated to the steadfast protection and continuing prosperity of the realm, the people and the Empress. Long may she reign!
>Traits:
Emese is intelligent, cunning and takes her duties as the de-facto head of her house very seriously. Outwardly she appears rather easy going and relaxed, though she can be ruthlessly pragmatic, preferring to settle issues and solve problems in a direct fashion.
>Flaws:
Her aggressive approach and relaxed attitude to issues of etiquette and protocol have alienated her from the wealthier lords and ladies inland, especially those who preside at court. Her loyalty to the realm permits her to a measure of ethically flexibility that some would find troubling.
>Allies:
Many of her fellow Bans along the northern coast respect her loyalty and apparent integrity, if not partly because she is shunned by the softer nobles from the inland realm.
>Enemies:
Outland raiders ravage the coastal settlements regularly, and the Half-King in exile is a traitorous bastard intent on usurping the Empress with foreign aid.
>Other Relations:
Aside from her mother, the official Ban of Whitemarrow, bedridden since her husband was killed, she has a long list of uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces.
>Physical Description:
Tall and lean, pale of complexion, with her mothers raven hair and her fathers green eyes. She dresses practically, but with a little flair.
>>47827846
Kaiger,Ajax and Farryn team up to fight an orc warlock who leading an orc warband.
Kaiger's plan would be to challenge Gul'dan to mak'gora so he can just steal the Horde for himself but considering how that went for Durotan maybe one of the two would convince him that plan wouldn't be the best. So they just try to gank the warlock but something tells me that Ajax is the type of the person who'd betray the party to save his own skin.
>>47828371
Would waifu/10
What are some examples of good reasons a character might turn to dark or forbidden magic? I've been wanting to make some kind of Warlock or something, but I'm having an issue figuring out just what reasons someone might have for such a thing other than being straight-up evil.
>>47829064
To save someone/something
To have power to protect someone/something
>>47829064
>>47829337
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
>>47816999
>>47820483
As an elf, Arallios is afraid of sleeping, though he'll never admit it as a straight fear and insist that sleeping races are just fucking insane. Storytime to explain:
Not knowing how to explain it, players agree that in our campaign trance as a sort of clusterfuck of power saver mode mixed with lucid hallucinations. Basically, he's awake but can still dream within the bounds of basic imagination.
>be Arry the elf
>get into convo with bard about how the hell trance gives any rest when he's still conscious
>elf counters how the hell sleeping gives any rest when you willingly knock yourself out, leaving you vulnerable to all sorts of dangers
>mutual touche, followed by Arallios getting the idea to learn how to sleep
>uses magic to turn into a wolf, bard sings a lullaby to help him out
>thinks the bard is trying to kill him, since he can only liken slowly losing all senses to near-death/dying
>cut to black
>cut to Arallios finding himself back in elf form with bard and barbarian in a "forest"
>trees are growing different fruits that tastes like each other (pears taste like oranges, apples like bananas, etc)
>can't find a way out of the forest, every time bard uses Fly item she says to go in a different direction to get out
>barbarian just kicks trees for more fruit
>awake bard wakes up elf, who is very very confused
>babbles about the nonsense he saw, can't believe it was all fake
>swears off sleeping, says the sleeping races can keep their nonsense realities to themselves
>quietly admits in an extremely vague sentence that he's fine with dying if the bard kills him
>>47819735
Boi lemme get back to ya, this'll take a new post. But our game has reached FFVI levels of "party member" recruits, so I have to ask if you want the core members or absolutely everyone.
>>47819735
Aight, >>47829857 again. Keeping it to classes because privacy.
In order of party recruitment:
>Arallios, Ranger M
>Fighter M
>Rogue F
>Wizard M
>Baker F NPC
>Bard F
>Barbarian F NPC
>Sorcerer F NPC
>Wizard#2 F NPC
>Monk/Ranger#2 F NPC
>Rogue#2 F NPC
Starting with love shapes: (r)elationship, (q)uestionable, (o)ne-sided, (~)did it, (?) dunno
>Arallios (r~) Bard
>Arallios (q) Barbarian
>Fighter (o~) Rogue
>Fighter (~) Barbarian
>Fighter (r~) Sorcerer
>Fighter (?) Wizard#2
>Wizard (r~) Baker
As far as everything else I can fit:
>Fighter and Arallios near-constantly at odds due to their practically opposite views from threats to strategy
>Fighter and Wizard have odd clashes when Fighter doesn't want to look at other options
>Rogue doesn't like Arallios because he doesn't listen to the Fighter, Arallios won't blame a shovel for digging a hole
>Wizard and Arallios have a truce between logic and impulse, though Wizard is barely afraid of Arallios ever since he wiped him in a spar
>Baker was our line to a contact who had since died after her recruitment. Said contact's death nearly broke the party by proxy
>Bard likes pretty much everyone
>Barbarian kept a few of us captive/enslaved before recruitment, only Wizard had hard feelings that he mostly got over. Crushed on the Rogue for a bit before confessing to Arallios
>Sorcerer is flirty as fugg if she can get away with it. We were to take care of her because plot. Later find out she's actually a clone of that person, she had an identity crisis that we've mostly gotten past
>Wizard#2 showed up asking if we could get her stuff back. Ended up out of our hands and we took her in, the Fighter quickly getting attached, the others mostly neutral aside from her prideful streak
>Monk/Ranger#2 was GM's attempt to have a story reason for something the Fighter wanted to do OOC, but it fell apart and now she's just kinda..there
>Rogue#2 is part of our current quest to help plane-displaced people, most haven't grown an opinion
>>47816999
Amon is completely terrified of his work being lost/stolen/destroyed. It's given him some paranoid tendencies, and he spends a lot of time hiding them in places he only knows of, and encrypting his findings within codes and ciphers.
>>47819735
>"Captain" Isaac Rochester
Our very first job, he used the payment from our completed job for a Lady Magister to just get shitfaced drunk on dragon absinthe, climbed into the same Lady magister's bedroom, and seduced her. Woke up the next morning handcuffed to the bed, with a horse in the room and a statue of the Lady Magister firmly lodged inside of him underneath a chastity belt. Also has a thing going with the captain of our "rival" crew, this fiery alcoholic gunslinger with a choice ass. He's a somewhat decent sort though, and he won't sleep with her when she's drunk, so they never sealed the deal.
>Rabbit Ackerman
He's our full mental dump stat beatstick half-orc. This massive slab of meat, everything is in CON. Has no game whatsoever, but still attracted this rabid fan when we were performing in the coliseum. She was a hot redhead elf who called him "her green machine" and was just enamored because she'd never seen an orc before. Highlights include loudly hoovering Rabbit's hog in the bunks while everyone was trying to sleep, biting Isaac's testicles when he tried to throw her off the ship, and making a "stuffed rabbit" out of old clothes and shed hair.
>Navier Ackerman
Rabbit's NPC brother and our pilot. He has a thing going on with the pilot of the "rival" crew, who turned out to be an underachieving manacite addict. The party banded together to make them break up after he started trying to get Navier on them too. It was like an afterschool special of a session, with more punching and crashing airships
> Seeker Arkilles
Plowing Naeva now, but he has an ex that we actually hired to run the shop in the tavern we opened. She was a cunt who made him feel like he was lucky to get anything because of his horsey bits. She got forcepushed into the sea for shit talking Arkilles in front of Naeva.
Name:
>Piper Adgate
Role(s):
>Alchemist, ranged attacker, support
Goals:
>She wants the world to raise and care for Oozes as they do any other pet or livestock, at the very least she wants them to be seen as part of the natural world and not monsters.
Traits:
>Optimistic, excitable, more than a little awkward, she will refuse to shut up if you get her started talking about the proper care and treatment of Oozes as well as their potential applications in society, Piper also has an uncanny hunger.
Flaws:
>She has never lived among civilization and doesn't particularly understand social niceties or the basics of interaction. In addition she has a very morally grey stance on the world and while she does know right from wrong her own determination on whether or not you're a good person is almost entirelly based on how you treat her precious Oozes.
Allies:
>Piper works as an Ichormancer, a sort of consultant Ooze vet and trainer for hire. She has contacts with a variety of people ranging from liches, evil wizards, nobles, and bandit clans who have all required her services in either removing problematic Oozes or providing them with Oozes for their dungeons. Other than the party Piper holds that the only being she feels is truly her friend is her Ooze companion she calls Cavatica.
Enemies:
>Piper has gotten on the wrong side of a clerical druid order who see Ooze as demon spawn and see Piper as an accomplice to the death of any adventurer the Oozes she creates and sells cause. While they aren't activley hunting her down they are large enough in size and influence that they've been making life difficult for her lately.
Other Relations:
>Piper's parents were reclusive alchemists who both passed away of old age. Piper raised herself in their home in the swamplands ever since then. If she has an extended family she doesn't know about them.
Physical Description:
>Messy orange hair, chubby, freckled, pale, and jubilant.
>>47832986
She looks adorable.
>>47832986
Would totally go on bizarre arcane adventures with
>Name:
Elwint Skylark
>Role(s):
Magical Support, party face, moral compass.
>Goals:
Honor his family legacy and become a bard of world-wide renown. Free the soul of his daughter from the demon that holds it so she may rest in peace.
>Traits:
Ambitious, resourceful, and eternally optimistic, Elwint is a glory seeker above all else and will put his life on the line if he believes it will make him shine brighter in the shadow of his family. He is an excellent conductor and can summon the spirits of his deceased relatives to play for him.
>Flaws:
Despite his families long line of extremely talented bards Elwint has absolutely no talent when it comes to playing instruments. He is also very sensitive when it comes to the topic of his family, especially if the fact that he isn't a real musician is brought up. Elwint refuses to let evil deeds go unpunished, often getting himself into sticky situations.
>Allies:
Most of his ancestors, the party, an orphaned street urchin that idolizes him.
>Enemies:
The strongest members of his family that don't acknowledge him as a real bard. A troupe of performers mad about him stealing away their customers.
>Other Relations:
His parents who cast him out into the world when he was found to have no musical talent for fear that he would beseech the family name.
>Physical Description:
Elwink stands at 5'9 with a pretty average build. He has long pink hair styled into a pompadour(a permanentlook thanks to a travelling wizard) and deep blue eyes with a very large angular chin. He dresses in the traditional purple and gold suit jacket of his family crest, adorning it with a large gaudy bow. A small pair of spectacles rest upon his rather large nose.
>Development Question: How often does your character party?
Wherever there's wine, women, and song one can also find Elwint Skylark. He is usually the one providing the music for whatever the situation may be, whether the participants wish for it or not.
>>47721428
>>47732504
>>47732822
I made this character in a previous thread, but before I go ahead and put him into action very soon, I don't know how to decide a specific aspect of his character history: Whether or not his wife should be alive or dead. And I want to ask you anons for advice on what I should choose.
Whenever I think anything that would be considered prominent as part of his history, I think of an excuse to "humble" Robert. He may have served 5 years in the military during a war, but he was only in a handful of engagements. The saving of a prince's life happened because of dumb luck, only because Robert was in the right place and the right time. Samuel isn't engaged to the lord's daughter, but the lord isn't the king, and she's not her only daughter. And so on and so on.
You see, I like the idea of any character having multiple, nominally separate but nonetheless subtly interconnected, reasons for character motivation/drive, but I also want Robert's 'call to adventure' to be as down-to-earth as possible (while still not being completely of course) because I want Robert to be as down-to-earth as possible. What I'm afraid of is adding too much to him, which would remove his simple, humble origins by entangling him with detail. Robert isn't supposed to be a "tragic" character who had a "hard life", and I don't want him to become one.
>>47833833
*Samuel is engaged
(mixed up "isn't engaged to the king's daughter")
>>47816999
Josh has a fear of commitment. After his father "died", his mother never remarried and had to devote most of her time to work, leaving him to take care of his sister.
>>47833754
Excellent choice of inspiration Anon, would definitely attend one of his concerts.
If your OC had to choose between becoming a
>vampire
>werewolf
>death
which would they choose?
No other answer choice counts.
>>47835919
Probably a vampire since he already hates the sun.
So, would this thread object to a big dump of storytime?
>>47836197
Of course not, do me a favor and either post your character details first or just link to them.
>>47835919
Arallios is already planning to temporarily become a werewolf via risky magic item to help out in the party's current quest. Whether or not everything goes according to keikaku is yet to be seen.
For a more permanent arrangement however, he'd most likely choose to be a vampire, if only because the only status quo he'd see being changed is that being active during the day would be difficult and what he'd have to hunt for his diet would change considerably but not impossibly. Opposed to a werewolf's night-time feral berserking and just dropping dead to leave his loved ones behind, to him it's no contest.
>Name:
Tristan Krislar
>Role(s):
Self-taught Witch, Vigilante, Fugitive
>Goals:
To find a cure to the disease that plagues his home's wildlife.
>Traits:
Calm, empathetic, and resourceful. Tristan sees himself as a warden and caretaker of his home of Blightwood, a massive, diseased forest named Blightwood. Because of this, he is extremely respectful of nature.
>Flaws:
Only has a glancing knowledge of "civilized" social norms and manners. Dislikes elves. Oftentimes he focuses so much on his lofty goal that he misses what's right in front of him. Due to a mishap with his magic at a young age, his left arm is corrupted by malignant magical forces, something he does his best to hide lest he be branded a practitioner of the dark arts.
>Allies:
His father, and a rather desperate Duke who trusted in Tristan's divination abilities that alerted the noble of his son's undetected sickness.
>Enemies:
The Church of the Holy Flame who see him as a heretic, particularly a cleric by the name of Augustus who is currently hunting him down.
>Other Relations:
The Circle of Crones, the largest organization of Witches. While they only have met in passing due to their powers, they do somewhat respect Tristan for his talent.
>Physical Description:
Tall, very thin and rather gaunt, Tristan may appear to be sickly or malnourished, but in reality that's simply the way his body is built. His hair is blonde and shoulder-length, and he has fair, blemish-free skin on most of his body. His left arm, however, is clearly tainted and corrupted by some malignant force. It is black and purple, covered in boils and sores. He always keeps it wrapped in bandages, but even they get stained with black emissions that leak from his skin after some time.
>>47836197
story time!
>>47835919
Well, Sigmund almost became a werewolf after fighting them a half-dozen times, so I'd have to go with that.
Vampires are far too restrictive, and death is simply *not* an option; Sigmund doesn't live for himself anymore, he's got a family to protect.
bump?
>>47835919
Kaiger would choose Werewolf because he thinks wolves are kickass. Also part of the moon is destroyed so no more lycanthropy in his world.
>>47835919
Thug would rather die. If he was a Vampire he'd never see the sun again and if he were afurfaghe'd never be able to respect himself again.
>>47835919
Rashad would probably love to become A Death. Being death sounds awesome!
>>47847209
Yeah, typo on my part lol
>>47847209
>>47849905
I almost made this joke.
>>47814821
>How often does your character party?
Lugh's life is a party, and everyone's invited.
>>47835919
It would be tough, but Lugh would probably become a Vampire, simply so his stories would survive the longest. After a while, he would write them all down then walk outside on a nice spring morning.
>>47850793
Did that come from the drawthread?
>>47850916
Yup.
>>47835919
Having associated with both, Josh would much rather be a werewolf. However, it would feel like a major downgrade in versatility.
>>47835919
Amon would likely choose Vampire, due to the promise of immortality. It would allow him to continue his search and studies long after he would normally be able to.
>• Name:
Ragos
>• Role(s):
Ogre Berserker, Mercenary, Pariah
>• Goals:
To discover what the runes etched into the talisman found around his neck as an infant means.
>• Traits:
Taciturn, huge, strong and reliable.
>• Flaws:
Doesn't care much for laws, can be quick to anger, rarely thinks before he acts, and is very ugly.
>• Allies:
The mercenary guild that brought him in as a child.
>• Other Relations:
Most humans see him as suspicious at the very least due to his race.
>• Physical Description:
A hulking, 9-foot tall and ugly Ogre, Ragos certainly stands out in a crowd. Possessing somewhat dark skin, thin, wispy hair, scars that riddle his body, and crooked fangs and teeth that protrude from his mouth, most would describe him to be intimidating in appearance. He usually wears a set of specially-crafted leather armor, and a cloak large enough to cover him when in the field. When relaxing, he wears commoner clothes - again, specially made to fit him.
>>47833833
Uh, nothing? No response?
>>47853165
The thread is kind of dead of late.
>>47853165
Your character is boring as shit.
>>47852174
>To discover what the runes etched into the talisman found around his neck as an infant means.
I'm sure there's a story here
>>47853165
Your character isn't kawaii uguu lesbian waifu bait, so he doesn't belong in this thread.
Lads, in honor of Father's Day, let's have some downright paternal questions
>Does your character know their father? What is their relationship with dad?
>Is your character a father? Do they want to be in the future?
>What OC do you think would make the best dad?
>>47857268
>>Does your character know their father? What is their relationship with dad?
Kaiger knows his father and when he was younger he didn't like him. First reason was he was just a quiet orc fisherman that didn't talk much and was considered weak amongst the clan. Secondly, his mom always told him stories about heroes and a handful of them described orcs as monsters that terrorize humans. Which made him question as a child what the hell his mom was living with them if that was the case. So for the longest time he didn't like his dad because he thought he raped his mom or kept her prisoner or gave he Stockholm. When he learned that his mom willingly decided to live with orcs so she can be with him.
Kaiger respects his father now for being a good fisherman and he just does what he does because it's what he enjoys and he's not going to let others stop him.
>>Is your character a father? Do they want to be in the future?
Kaiger isn't a father but he'd like to be one at some point in time.
>>What OC do you think would make the best dad?
In previous threads, I'd give it to Roderick but in this thread Elwint >>47833754
.
>>47857247
There's only 2 or 3 that even come close to matching your shitpost, maybe your character is boring and nobody cares to talk about him.
>>47858359
To be fair most of the time, people only talk about like 3-4 characters that aren't there's.
>>47858771
it's difficult to track more than that, truth be told. it is way easier to pick a small handful you like and talk to them when they're here.
>>47814821
I have a question in general.
You mentioned the mary sue litmus test.
I've been checking out that test for a while now, and i really don't know how i could play a character that i find even remotely enjoyable without raking in points massively.
I mean i cannot make them something i would not want to associate myself with at all, because i'll have to play them and primarily them for prolonged periods of time and think as them to know what actions they would take.
And yet that test awards lots of points for having a character who doesn't act in ways that are inconceivable to normal people, and who is not dumb, and doesn't dress in things you would never wear.
This makes me anxious about actually trying to play in any RPGs.
>>47859073
The system is rigged against exalted characters. Just saying.
>>47859073
It's literally not any kind of authority play whatever the fuck you want
>>47859095
I just came up with different character concepts. Not for any particular system.
It just seems like i can't get low scores with characters that are not being pushed around, are intelligent, and have worldviews that are not outrageous.
>>47859107
Well it wouldn't be referenced all over the place if it wasn't good for something though.
>>47859139
It's a joke, don't take it so seriously.
>>47857247
>>47858771
>>47858824
I try to say at least one nice thing about the characters if they don't have any replies to them.
>>47857268
>Does your character know their father? What is their relationship with dad?
No, Thug has no idea who his father was.
>Is your character a father? Do they want to be in the future?
No. Thug likes children enough.
>>47859073
>>The term "Mary Sue" comes from the name of a character created by Paula Smith in 1973 for her parody story "A Trekkie's Tale" published in her fanzine Menagerie #2. The story starred Lieutenant Mary Sue ("the youngest Lieutenant in the fleet — only fifteen and a half years old"), and satirized unrealistic characters in Star Trek fan fiction. Such characters were generally female adolescents who had romantic liaisons with established canonical adult characters, or in some cases were the younger relatives or protégées of those characters. By 1976 Menagerie's editors stated that they disliked such characters, saying:
>>Mary Sue stories—the adventures of the youngest and smartest ever person to graduate from the academy and ever get a commission at such a tender age. Usually characterized by unprecedented skill in everything from art to zoology, including karate and arm-wrestling. This character can also be found burrowing her way into the good graces/heart/mind of one of the Big Three [Kirk, Spock, and McCoy], if not all three at once. She saves the day by her wit and ability, and, if we are lucky, has the good grace to die at the end, being grieved by the entire ship.
>>"Mary Sue" today has changed from its original meaning and now carries a generalized, although not universal, connotation of wish-fulfillment and is commonly associated with self-insertion. True self-insertion is a literal and generally undisguised representation of the author; most characters described as "Mary Sues" are not, though they are often called "proxies" for the author. The negative connotation comes from this "wish-fulfillment" implication: the "Mary Sue" is judged as a poorly developed character, too perfect and lacking in realism to be interesting
I feel like a lot of people on /tg/ use the term Mary Sue incorrectly. A special snowflake isn't always a mary sue, and mary sue isn't always a special snowflake.
>>47861643
That was not really related to my post. I used the term mary sue in its most broad interpretation possible, just like that test there.
The problem is that role playing games do need a bit of self insertion (at least in my opinion) to be enjoyable and to have accurate roleplay when people act out the decisions and actions of their roles for a prolonged time.
I mean... how are you supposed to enjoy roleplaying as people who DON'T save the day, or as people who are nothing like you at all and don't do anything you would do or you find cool.
>>47862028
Well I mean, one of the reasons people roleplay is specifically to play characters that aren't like themselves. That being said, there is nothing wrong with basing aspects of your character on yourself. What I was trying to illustrate with that quote is that as long as your character isn't super amazing at everything, loved by all, and the most important person around, you are absolutely fine. Giving your character weird eye/hair color, or them having a name like Dark Raven or something doesn't necessarily make them bad, like >>47859162 said that website is mostly just a joke.
I also don't ever really play evil characters because I personally want to save the day, stop the bullies, be a hero etc etc. Most of my characters have some aspect of my own personality. My Barbarian OC is hot headed and quick to anger, like myself irl, but my wizard is pretty shy and introverted, which I also can be irl.
Drizzt Do'Urden of the Forgottem Realms setting/novels is by definition a Mary Sue, he is the greatest sword fighter of all time, amazing at pretty much anything he does, and eventually everyone ever loves him even though he's a Dark Elf. But depending on who you ask, he is still written well, and his books are enjoyable. [People either seem to love him or hate him on this site.]
>>47862243
>Dark Raven
Or Coldsteel.
I now want to create an extremely edgy character....
But this is the point i was trying to make: it would be a gimmicky character. Good for a few sessions of fun, but i ultimately couldn't identify with him, and if you can't really identify with a character you won't end up making the decisions he would actually make.
>>47862307
idk man that seems more like an issue with you rather than roleplaying as a whole. I know plenty of people that roleplay characters that are nothing like them for long periods of time just fine.
One of my players is a gay noble fighter in our current campaign, he does a fantastic job portraying him despite being broke, engaged to a girlfriend, and a massive pacifist in reality.
That doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you wanting to self insert a bit though, if it helps you roleplay, than by all means go ahead.
>>47857268
Luvos doesn't know his biological father, some unknown drow soldier, but his mothers husband raised him and they didn't get along well. He isn't really interested in fathering someone although he does want to find an apprentice someday.
>>47862387
>>47862387
...
But how.
Excuse me for acting autistic here, but how does he do that?
![resizeimage[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wBYYXu7.jpg "resizeimage[1].jpg")
>>47862445
I don't know, the same way the lead actress in Orphan Black is able to portray 6+ different clones with all vastly different personalities and mannerisms, or the same way an Author [other than stephen king] can write a novel featuring characters that are all different and not based on themselves. Some people are just better at getting in character than others.
He did a lot of drama class stuff in highschool, maybe that helped.
>>47862494
>the same way the lead actress in Orphan Black is able to portray 6+ different clones with all vastly different personalities and mannerisms,
It's one thing to portray a character that had its role written out with lots of careful deliberation by a different person beforehand, and another thing to try and make a character that's completely alien to you and do all actions they would do realistically on the fly.
>Source: I did drama class in highschool too.
>>47862589
Sure, true that. But I mean, unless you are like a top tier hollywood actor you aren't always going to be able to portray your character 100% properly all the time, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try and play a character that is different from yourself. Like I said, some people are just better at getting IC for whatever reason. Maybe they are more empathetic or something, they can get into the imaginary character's head space easier.
I mentioned before that I try and do a little of both. My main OC right now is a female barbarian/viking that grew up in the frozen north in a tiny village. irl I'm a black dude that grew up in the city. There is literally no way despite how much effort I put into to roleplay her 100% authentically. So I take aspects of myself and insert them. I have some repressed anger problems, and sometimes I like to get drunk and rave, and fight whatever. I use those aspects of myself to roleplay her. My other character is a super introverted wizard that is afraid to use magic because he doesn't want to hurt anyone with collateral damage. I use the part of my personality that likes to just stay home and read a book to roleplay him.
But some people, like my drama class friend, for whatever reason, can literally just chameleon into an entirely different person with ease. Dude is a big normalfag too, plays Skyrim and goes on reddit etc.
>>47862745
>unless you are like a top tier hollywood actor
>implying
>that doesn't mean you shouldn't try and play a character that is different from yourself.
I probably could portray them well enough for it not to be jarring but what fun is that?
I mean where is the fun in portraying someone who you probably wouldn't like as a person?
For me the fun in roleplaying is mostly about unusual situations than unusual people.
How is skyrim and reddit normie stuff now? Skyrim is as close to TG as you can get without actually rolling dice with other people.
>>47862858
>How is skyrim and reddit normie stuff now? Skyrim is as close to TG as you can get without actually rolling dice with other people.
>>47862858
>>How is skyrim and reddit normie stuff now? Skyrim is as close to TG as you can get without actually rolling dice with other people.
I just mean like, he thinks a top tier rpg is something like Skyrim, compared to like the original Baldurs Gate or something. He plays rpg's to hack and slash and get loot, you wouldn't except him to really roleplay, let alone be really fucking good at it.
>>I mean where is the fun in portraying someone who you probably wouldn't like as a person?
I agree with you, I wouldn't play a dickass thief, or evil aligned character for the same reason, I wouldn't like the character, and wouldn't find it fun. But that doesn't mean I'm only gonna play as black guys who grew up in the city because that's all I know.
I like to be a hero.
A human noble fighter, a barbarian girl, a halfling folk hero, and a dwarven warrior are all capable of being heroic, and doing stuff I find enjoyable, but they would all be very different people.
and at the same time, some people do find it enjoyable to play a character they don't like, or who have morals and goals vastly different from them irl.
You can't really roleplay the wrong way.
>>47862925
Skyrim is like a singleplayer Neverwinter.
You literally can't find a singleplayer game that's more dungeon-y and dragon-y than skyrim.
>>47862976
>He plays rpg's to hack and slash and get loot, you wouldn't except him to really roleplay, let alone be really fucking good at it.
ah
>some people do find it enjoyable to play a character they don't like, or who have morals and goals vastly different from them irl.
But how.
>>47863018
>But how.
Serious question, do you have a mental abnormality?
>>47862858
>How is skyrim and reddit normie stuff now?
Welcome to the second decade of the third millennium since the birth of Christ. You've been out for a while, I take it?
>>47863018
>>You literally can't find a singleplayer game that's more dungeon-y and dragon-y than skyrim.
I dunno, I feel like any Elder Scrolls game before Skyrim would be closer to D&D. I enjoy Skyrim, but compared to like Morrowind, the rpg elements are pretty toned down. Pillars of Eternity, or Divinity: Original Sin are both much similar to a tabletop rpg than Skyim is.
>>But how
I don't know man, people enjoy different things, how do some people like Hockey and some people don't. How come some people can like D&D and others can think its a trash system. That's not a question I can answer friend. People enjoy different things, we tend to forget that on this website.
>>47863018
>You literally can't find a singleplayer game that's more dungeon-y and dragon-y than skyrim.
D&D Sword Coast Legends
Baldur's Gate series
Icewind Dale series
The list goes on and on man.
>>47816465
>What's your OC's favorite hobby
Walking. Usually very far in a mostly straight line and getting himself "lost" in an attempt to find something new. Needless to say the party doesn't like this as there's usually shit that needs doing, and there's a 1/3 he does that he nearly dies.
>>47857268
>Does your character know their father? What is their relationship with dad?
Arallios does know his father, but their relationship is more "tough teacher/student" than familial. When you've got hundreds of years of knowledge to teach someone, you kind of want to get it all out before you lose it.
>Is your character a father? Do they want to be in the future?
No, but the thought has certainly crossed his mind a few times. He's just worried he'd end up not being the friendly dude he actively tries to be and regress to "tryhard dad" mode that his was likeamong the other problems that arise when your current love interests are all "short-lived" races and how crossbreeding works out with that.
>Spoiler
Fuck I dunno. In this thread at least Imma vote for Tristan Krislar completely on a hunch.
>>47863053
"slight autistic tendencies" as the doc put it.
But i don't really think this has that much to do with it.
Or maybe it has.
Probably because i autistically overthink stuff while i'm empathetic, resulting in me imagining all the horrible consequences of doing morally questionnable things.
>>47863060
Just because the president went there doesn't make it normie stuff.
don't get me wrong i don't like reddit, but i wouldn't call it normie.
>>47863121
I didn't play those, but those also didn't have any dragons to go with the dungeons did they.
People like or hate systems based on how they like to play and that is based on what they get enjoyment out of.
The thing is i can (due to aforementioned empathy) at least partly understand all of those.
Which makes it all the more jarring that i can't understand how someone would find playing evil characters enjoyable for any length of time.
As i said: I too play evil characters occasionally in games, but not for any significant amount of time, because the novelty wears off after you've done some horrible forms of murdering.
>>47863211
Not enough dragons, not enough actual dungeons. From what i've seen anyway.
>>47863255
Both games I mentioned feature both Dungeons and Dragons, and a gameplay system derived from Tabletop mechanics.
>>People like or hate systems based on how they like to play and that is based on what they get enjoyment out of.
And I keep telling you that even though you can't understand it for whatever the fuck reason, some people DO enjoy playing evil characters.
I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand, mate.
Like I don't want to be a dick, but the longer this conversation goes on, especially after your latest post, I can't help but feel like you are either trolling the god damn hell out of me, or you are literally autistic, not slightly, just balls to the wall autism.
You may not find playing evil characters fun, but other people do. For some the whole point of roleplaying is to be someone else, the challenge of portraying a completely different person excites them. For others, they just want to be themselves in a fantasy world and live out heroic fantasies.
>>47863419
Yes, i understand that people do like that. I said so after the first time you said that.
I just don't understand why. And i do wish to understand why things happen.
Possibly because maybe if i understand it i too will be able to derive enjoyment out of it which could be fun.
That's why i'm asking.
>>47863482
>Why do people like eating lasagna? I don't get it, I just don't like the taste.
If you don't something, understanding why other people like it isn't going to do jack shit.
>>47863516
For me it does.
If i understand why people like a certain food, why a bitter taste for example can be good, i do actually have a chance of starting to like that thing.
>>47863482
>>47863482
>>47863482
Because not everyone is obsessed with perfectly simulating their character. They aren't worried about not portraying an evil dickhead correctly, because they recognize that it is a game, they are there to have fun, they are playing imaginary people in an imaginary world with very little repercussions to their actions.
Why would anyone ever shoot a civilian in GTA, or blow up a car, or something. That is horrific and terrible, and fucking evil. But it's also a fucking game. It's a fun escape, a fantasy.
Like, look up any interview with an actor playing an evil character, and how much fun they had just being a dick, even though they would never act that way in real life. It's just fun to not care, to let loose, wreak havoc. I personally don't find it fun, I play rpg's to be a hero, but that's not the only way to play.
I can't tell you psychologically why someone enjoys playing an evil character, or something other than what you yourself enjoy playing. They just do. Maybe they are really introverted in real life, maybe they got bullied and they want to feel powerful, or maybe just just don't care and are there to fuck around and have fun.
I just, I don't know man, I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore. We anonymous people on the internet can not help you fully grasp the psychological reasons why certain people enjoy certain things.
>>47863676
I think you helped me start understanding it though with that post.
Thank you.
>>47863537
I'm a crazy picky eater. I understand why people enjoy food that I do not, but it still tastes fucking gross to me.
>>47863719
You're welcome, glad to have helped in some way.
>>47857268
Rashad's father is a professional dragon slayer. Extraordinarily lucrative, high risk/high reward, and due to his work is never at home.
Rashad is in his mid twenties and count the number of times he's met his father on his hands. Rashad fucking loves his dad though, and a psychologist might say that he reads heroic fiction to try to get closer to him.
> Do they want to be a father in the future?
He wants no less than seven children, Per wife. (Wishful thinking)
>Best dad?
Sigmund i think.
>>47857268
Josh has an... Interesting relationship with his dad, William. Kinda wishes he was dead. His dad supposedly died when Josh was 10. But that didn't actually happen. A mage his father's cabal made him think his family was dead, to get rid of a weakness he had. Also made us think he was dead. When William was confronted by Josh about this, he found it easier to deny the truth, ignoring the fact that his wife and children are alive. Because he was gone, Josh had to raise his little sister himself. That's the closest to fatherhood he'll ever get.
Alright so the OC above or below your's find out their a fatherand they knocked up someone close to your OC. How does your character react?
>>47814987
His Mary sue score is 21.
>>47865287
I think he'd be utterly baffled, as he's in a modern setting, and the guy below him is, well, part orc. And a war leader. He'd have a lot of questions, actually.
>>47865287
Unless they act like an outright douche about it, he'd wish them luck on the relationship,because he's shotgunning them at arrowpoint.If they DO act like a douche about it, then some babydaddy's gonna be in the hospital for a few days.Babies are serious business and a commitment, also I'm fairly certain abortion isn't really a thing in our setting, or would at least be something absolutely no one would want brought up ever.
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>>47816600
Kaiger would be confused on how a zombie knocked up his sister but the implications of that probably cross his mind after he tries murdering the shit out of him.
>>47865287
>>47816600
Well, I guess Luvos is now married at sword point. Well, several hundred sword points. It's a big family with lots of contacts. Of course they won't be having any vile sorcery either, so time to take up proper wizardry or learn a trade.
>>47863255
>Not enough dragons, not enough actual dungeons. From what I've seen anyway.
The game makes you actually work up to fighting dragons. Not force-feeds them to you easy mode style like Skyrim.
>>47866450
I imagine the first on his list of questions would be "wtf?"
>>47869337
Powerful dragons, too, not 'hit it three times with an axe' wimps. Even better with the tactics mod.
>>47869337
That or
>Orcs are real too?!?
