 The lowest of the low, Messed up character ideas |
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 Jun 14 2006, 08:42 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 681 Joined: 28-February 06 From: UK Member No.: 8,319  |
Following on from this comment, I'd love to hear your ideas for badly messed-up characters. In as much or as little detail as you like.
Stuff like:
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Jun 14 2006, 10:50 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 15-May 03 Member No.: 4,591 |
Oddly, I was just getting ready to post something like this. It's been on my mind a lot, recently.
How far have you pushed character creation? What's your most off-beat character? How badly can you break Archetype molds? Very curious to see what follows. R |
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Jun 14 2006, 11:02 AM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
extreme graphic designer.
The look on the last player join my games face when he heard that. "well she's doing and ex ganger sammie, she's doing a stealth adept hacker, he's doing a rigger." "What's she playing?" "A graphic designer." |
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Jun 14 2006, 11:08 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 433 Joined: 28-March 06 Member No.: 8,412 |
Calling him an 'extreme' graphic designer is almost an understatement. The more you poke him, the scarier he gets.... :D
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Jun 14 2006, 11:12 AM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
Teach her to play an amnesiac, my favorite type of whipping boy.
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Jun 14 2006, 11:17 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 681 Joined: 28-February 06 From: UK Member No.: 8,319 |
Ooh ooh.. a dwarf elf-poser!
"Aren't you a little short and hairy to be a faerie prince?" |
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Jun 14 2006, 11:41 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 16-December 05 From: new jack city Member No.: 8,077 |
I have a friend who always plays elves in his games and dresses like one for ren fests... so when he played shadowrun for a bit and played an elf poser, we all couldn't stop laughing. :cyber:
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Jun 14 2006, 12:02 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
The aggressive yet sexually-confused ork-poser elf with crotch-mounted cyberhorns.
A street samurai whose special weapon is an Ares Squirt installed in his phallus. The beginning sorceror who designed all her own spells and has to explain their effects. A laser and crossbow-wielding troll with quickened shapechange (Sasquatch) spell. |
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Jun 14 2006, 01:44 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
I made an overweight, 5'2", pimply faced decker who was an elf poser. He always wore a long cape (that he regularly tripped over), carried a katana he didn't know how to use, shades that framed his face wrong, and loved making 'dramatic poses'.
He wasn't a bad decker though. I had a friend who wanted to run a decker who is constantly hounded by a mentor spirit trying to turn said person into a shaman. |
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Jun 14 2006, 04:55 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 993 Joined: 5-December 05 From: Crying in the wilderness Member No.: 8,047 |
I played a Decker with no deck, had to do runs to pay off his former employers and buy an abbacus deck to get started with. Did have some other skills like programing to fall back on. The idea was that it would be tough not impossiable.... :)
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Jun 14 2006, 05:57 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 90 |
A rent-a-cop security guard who has the cyber-rejection flaw was crippled in an industrial accident on the site he was guarding, the shock of which awakened his magical talents. The trauma of being unable to walk in a day and age of cybernetic miracles has affected his magical outlook, his spells center around pain inducing, physical/mental manipulation and physically debilitating spells, and of course levitaion for his own mobility to free him from his hated wheelchair.
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Jun 14 2006, 06:03 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 834 Joined: 30-June 03 Member No.: 4,832 |
A full mage with spirit bane on every type of spirit available, he didn't ever astrally project cause the astral hated him so much
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Jun 14 2006, 09:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
Witness: To which the aforementioned individual pops his triple Dikoted titanium steel spurs and says: "You wanna MAKE somethin' of it, Bub?!?" :P --Foreigner |
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Jun 15 2006, 03:08 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
I think someone should write a bunch of NPCs who are porn stars; make a story arc that involves porn stars and porn studios. It would be interesting to base the NPCs on real-life historic porn stars, such as Traci Lords and Linda Lovelace.
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Jun 15 2006, 03:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 626 Joined: 1-March 04 Member No.: 6,112 |
I had a shapeshifter who was originally a Fox shaman and her pet fox who got trapped in Bug City. She managed to rig up a powered glider and was on her way to escaping the Quarantine when the Cermak blast went off directly underneath her. Little-known fact: the reason the blast's radiation was muted is because the wards channeled most of it straight upwards.
She underwent a magical mutation that fused her with her pet, and left her psyche nearly shattered. It also made her incredibly powerful, though it had the nasty side effect of driving anyone who examined her aura too closely insane and making every one of her spells emit a not-insignificant quantinty of radiation. I played her a bit like a magical Megaera- always sort of out of focus, never sure why her friends wanted to confuse that guard or battle this spirit, but a primal force when she descended from her near-permanent light daze and actually decided to do something. |
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Jun 15 2006, 03:23 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Well, that's certainly a unique character design but the character sounds way too powerful for my taste as a GM. Shapeshifters are bad enough, but add to that extra-powerful radioactive shapeshifter?
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Jun 15 2006, 03:55 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 7,116 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,449 |
My most messed-up character would probably be Rat, although that's mostly because he was created for a 40 build point game. He had two of the most crippling flaws, computer illiterate and uncouth, but I picked them because they were very fun flaws to roleplay. Especially the uncouth flaw, since he was the self-described "face" of the group. :D
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Jun 15 2006, 04:00 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,479 Joined: 6-May 05 From: Idaho Member No.: 7,377 |
I wanted to make a Troll Swordsman Adept with a horrible case of Tourettes. Thought it would be a "good roleplaying challenge" heh. Never got around to playing him though.
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Jun 15 2006, 06:08 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 38 Joined: 12-May 06 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 8,551 |
One of the players in the game I'm about to run has created a Porn-Mage.
Background of the character is that he was having a bit of financial difficulty paying his way through university, so the Mob gave him some loans. He's paying off those loans by assisting the Mob in the porn industry, casting "appropriate" spells for them! :D These spells include Antidote, Cure Disease and Detox (to make sure the stars are clean), Heal (for fairly obvious reasons), Increase Body (Body = Endurance, so...), Resist Pain (also fairly obvious), Physical Mask and Trid Fantasm (to make the stars and locations look however they want), Control Actions (lets not go there) and Shapechange (lets also not go there!). |
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Jun 15 2006, 06:38 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
So is it still bestiality if it's really a shapechanged mage that you are, erm, having relations with?
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Jun 15 2006, 06:50 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 11-June 05 Member No.: 7,441 |
Paraplegic rigger in a JIM suit?
(I mean, if it's okay to have a 1000lb troll running around, why not a paralyzed dude in a supposed-to-be-underwater-but-now-it's-not power suit?) |
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Jun 15 2006, 09:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 681 Joined: 28-February 06 From: UK Member No.: 8,319 |
Interestingly I just had an NPC who was kind of like that. He wasn't a total mess-up; in fact he was very good at his job (which was a Face)- charming guy, Brad Pitt-alike, pheromones, voice modulation & retinal duplication etc, went by the name Baldur. He and a female (middle-aged dwarf) PC were to go into a very swanky hotel as guests (to help others get in less visibly), and it was only as he was going in that he bashfully admitted that the fake SIN he was using had him down as a porn star. You should have seen her blush. Though charming he had an air of sadness about him, sometimes. As if he could have been a real star, but it was never quite explained what drove him to the shadows. Still that doesn't really qualify as a properly messed-up character. But...
One of my players' characters (in the same game) is a quadraplegic rigger (& drone rigger) + medic (using drones), whose meat body moves around in a slow clunky anthroform 'wheelchair' (with built-in life support). It must be said that despite this he is a pretty fucking versatile and dangerous Shadowrunner. Another PC (the aforementioned female dwarf) started out as a mad old homeless dwarf woman who fed and talked to the pigeons in the park, while wheeling around a knackered old shopping trolley full of trash. Turns out she was a Pigeon shaman (in fact in my game world she is the only Pigeon shaman), and in the first part of the campaign, boy did she play up the madness! It was great fun. She's since had a bit of road-to-Damascus moment with her Totem, and has become a bit less mad and oblivious (the game has moved on to higher levels and it wouldn't have been fitting any more). And yet another PC in the same game was/is also majorly messed-up: he was a high school jock who was failing badly in school, so Wealthy Dad got one of his clients to install some special headware (Mysterious Cyberware flaw- a prototype called the 'Inner Beauty' Neuroencephalon) to give him a leg up academically. Unfortunately it totally screwed up his mind. He became like an autistic savant (with psychotic qualities) and had heaps of fun freaking out the other PCs. One of them woke up one night in the safehouse to find this guy standing over him just watching him- and on other occasions he kept on scrawling weird mathematical shit on the walls and mumbling to himself. He too has had to pull himself together a bit (with some personafix help), and has become a pretty fearsome decker. He recently found out that his headware was a prototype for the Node technology used by Deus. (And that's just a weird coincidence: we talked about that character and the cyberware long before reading about the Nodes, but in terms of what the headware did, it turned out to be an almost exact match for the stuff built into a Node). What's been interesting here is watching these last two characters (who both started out really messed-up) grow and develop through a really long campaign. Both are pretty awesome now, but because of their messed-up origins they remain really interesting memorable characters, I think. EDIT: The rigger is cool too, although he joined the campaign more recently and at a higher level, so he doesn't have that messed-up history. |
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Jun 15 2006, 09:26 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,458 Joined: 22-March 03 From: I am a figment of my own imagination. Member No.: 4,302 |
Does my addled memory fail me, or was the the game where I played Jimmy "Underfoot" the 40BP decker? Also created with the same amount of BPs was Mr. G, the Ghoul Pimp... sad, how my brain works at times... |
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Jun 15 2006, 09:26 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 681 Joined: 28-February 06 From: UK Member No.: 8,319 |
I should also mention an enemy NPC that the players once found stalking young women in the depths of the Ork Underground. A massively cybered troll freak with a giant retractable blade that slid out of his crotch. Now he was messed-up. And I'm happy to say he got what was coming to him. In spades. |
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Jun 15 2006, 11:38 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 917 Joined: 5-September 03 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Member No.: 5,585 |
Sorry Ronin, done it. With players. Male Porn-Star Dwarf Adept. Female Cybered Porn-Star Minotaur Enforcer Female Satyr Porn Star Face -Lets just say that the Pron industry of 2060 has a lot of..."Niche"...interests. Sadly, the boxes had to undergo a wipe about a year ago, so much of the sheer insanity was lost. One of the things that HAS continued is the use of in game "music" to indicate a player is strolling down a street/into a mall/into the meet... "Ha ha ha ha, Stayin' alive, Stayin' alive....Ha, ha ha ha, Staying Alliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiveeeeeeeeeeee......" or: (Imaginary Wah-wah pedal) Wokka wokka woooooow, baw-wow wow.... <For those who haven't experienced old-school 60's-70 pron, there is a thing called porno music. And it's a lot more fun to listen to than you'd believe.) -Tir. (Good times:)) |
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