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Your Character Type
« on: January 25, 2011, 12:47:17 AM »
I was listening to "EPISODE 31: BE A TEAM PLAYER" and I thought about what kind of player I am or if I have a favored character type. I came to the conclusion that I agree with Ross, I really enjoy Jack-of-All-Trades types, but more than that I have this nagging obsession with player morphic types, I like shapechangers. In D&D my favorite character is a Master of Many Forms, I am going to be playing a Doppelganger soon as well. In Mutants and Masterminds the Shapeshift power makes me go crazy with awesome ideas....

So yeah how about you guys, do you have a favored character type?
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2011, 12:52:02 AM »
There're usually three archetypes I spring for whenever I want to make a character. For fantasy types, the crusading good guy is usually my Go-To concept. I love paladins and clerics and so forth. For modern stuff, I'll leap for the cynical, world-weary kind of private eye that'd be right at home in a black 'n white movie. #3 on my list is usually reserved for super-hero genres, and it is best summed up as 'women who have no right to be that strong. Usually coupled with some minor silliness, like, say, an space police catgirl. . .who happens to have an effective Str of 80. Oh how I love Mutants and Masterminds.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2011, 01:41:34 AM »
goddamn i just realized my wild talents character is another jack of all trades.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2011, 02:19:35 AM »
Monsterous/Alien heroes.   Humans are boring in SW and Dwarf/Elf/Halfing/Human is played to do death.

Skill monkeys.  Because I like to be able to talk my way out of fight or duct tape my way out of a fight.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2011, 06:32:10 AM »
With the RPPR group, I got stuck playing a combat monkey a number of times, so I've gotten pretty good with battlefield command characters. I'm apparently also skilled in playing sociopaths in horror/investigation games.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2011, 01:07:23 PM »
I tend to want to specialize rather than play a jack of all trades. It's easier for me to get into the
character if I know they're bound to operate in a certain way based off of what they know how to do.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2011, 02:33:39 PM »
I think I might have a thing for glass cannons, but I'm not sure.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2011, 02:56:26 PM »
Construction characters. My everymen are engineers and crafters. My magicians are conjurers or geomancers. My vampires are social architects. My shadowrunners are demo specialists. I like to be able to directly manipulate the game world.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2011, 03:22:05 PM »
Quote from: Charlie72 on January 25, 2011, 02:33:39 PM
I think I might have a thing for glass cannons, but I'm not sure.

I always enjoyed the "cannon" part but not the "glass" part of a glass cannon.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2011, 04:15:06 PM »
Since I haven't been playing long, I can remember every character I've created.

Kent Tomlinsonburg, adventuring youth pastor and founder of the Little Crusader's Pancake Jamboree
An FBI interrogator
Lady Gaga 2.0
Varis Gugginhiem, an objectivist tank that refused to tank and owned a gigantic pet bird
Norm, the hapless "superhero" that gets by on beginner's luck

I'm looking for a common thread but just not seeing it...ineffective, maybe?
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2011, 04:39:31 PM »
My characters usually stick to their shtick pretty closely but I also enjoy using less than optimal builds, the results of failure intrigue me more in an RPG than success. I guess that means I am the "failure" character type.

For example my Monsters and Other childish things kid was a Fat Asian Kid who just ate everything, and did everything for food. And my monster was a japanese "hungry ghost" together we ate all of our problems away and would only act against or with a PC or NPC if there was food on the line.

I also played a superhero whose power was post-cognition, ala  "trivial psychic"

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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2011, 05:34:16 PM »
I like to role-play the resolved and determined type of characters, who hold a set of rules or ideas by which they live. I've enjoyed playing the lawful good cleric, the unshakable vigilante, the mercenary who believes money is the only thing that matters, the completely unaligned monk, and others.

Quote from: Cthuluzord on January 25, 2011, 04:15:06 PM
Since I haven't been playing long, I can remember every character I've created.

Kent Tomlinsonburg, adventuring youth pastor and founder of the Little Crusader's Pancake Jamboree
An FBI interrogator
Lady Gaga 2.0
Varis Gugginhiem, an objectivist tank that refused to tank and owned a gigantic pet bird
Norm, the hapless "superhero" that gets by on beginner's luck

I'm looking for a common thread but just not seeing it...ineffective, maybe?

I think they have in common that they are characters who all break preconceptions of who they are or what they do and generally do not stick to the tropes that one would come to expect of their profession or class.
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2011, 05:43:08 PM »
Quote from: Cthuluzord on January 25, 2011, 04:15:06 PM
Since I haven't been playing long, I can remember every character I've created.

Kent Tomlinsonburg, adventuring youth pastor and founder of the Little Crusader's Pancake Jamboree
An FBI interrogator
Lady Gaga 2.0
Varis Gugginhiem, an objectivist tank that refused to tank and owned a gigantic pet bird
Norm, the hapless "superhero" that gets by on beginner's luck

I'm looking for a common thread but just not seeing it...ineffective, maybe?

Tie that together with all of the NPCs from Andrew's Fortune.  You are the awesome comic relief guy.

Also do you mean to say that you were introduced to gaming by the RPPR crew?
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2011, 06:17:00 PM »
Didn't you hear Aaron's haunted house game? When Cody apologised to him that this was his first gaming experience and that was what happened?
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Re: Your Character Type
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2011, 06:34:52 PM »
I guess I interpreted that as his first RPPR game.  Caleb, you are clearly some kind of mad genius.
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