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One of my favorite characters I've ever had fits perfectly into #15. She was a tiny goblin that was on a quest to collect as many skulls as possible and had a sheep that she won in a contest as her steed. (She was about 2.5 feet tall and the rest of the party was human-sized or larger, so I had to roll endurance checks to keep up with them sometimes if we were traveling a long distance.)
- Whatever lets me create the biggest explosions
I have done all of these except 13
6 sessions in and no one has identified/mentioned the person my character is based on, probably because I'm not good enough at doing a Rodney Dangerfield voice
No respect. I tell ya!
Also missing: pure random-roll character who makes no sense and contributes nothing other than needing to be rescued a lot.
I actually like point-buy systems where you get better at what you actually use (like in Morrowind).
I start at average values in everything and see where the story takes my character.
And the corollary, overbuilt min-max character based solely on researching the meta for hours but only rolls good at things they're not built to do
"Okay, tell us about your character."
"Hm? Oh... human fighter."
"That's it?"
"Mm-hm."
"What do they look like?"
"Middle sliders on the character creator."
"Any motivations?"
"Do quests to earn money."
"How about a backstory?"
"Did quests and earned money."
Haha, yeah, the fact that I played almost exclusively women and my few masculine characters still often had more feminine features and mannerisms was totally just to challenge myself. Never a subconscious exploration of my deepest desires.
Says the now VERY out and proud about it transwoman.
Missing:
one time my buddy was running a game of Monster of the Week and I came up with the most mundane character possible: a Wisconsin corn farmer named Pete Faber, competing with angels, demons, and the miscellaneous supernatural
Sounds like he could be the next Ash Williams who works on over in housewares at S-Mart!
Awful little creature reporting for duty
I've taken more damage from party members trying to get me under control than from the enemy. Now they keep me on a leash.
My sister always picked those lol just troublemaking groblins
Awful little creatures make the most fun characters by far regardless of game or setting.
Every party needs one, just to keep the party moving. When the entire party is busy hemming and hawing about how to best approach an encounter, they often need a Leroy Jenkins to just axe-chop the door apart and start taking heads.
The real issue is that oftentimes, the heads belonged to the hostages that the party was there to rescue. If the awful little creature had actually paid attention at all, they would have known that. But they were grabbing their fifth beer when that part was explained, (and they wouldn’t have listened to it anyways), so they had no idea who was inside the room.
I've done too many of these. I tend to fall on 1 often though.