Worst character concepts?, General question. Options

[Stahlseele]

if you ain't thinking of that bad joke called buildings in seemingly large parts of america, we're talking beton/stone buildings like in bigger cities . . new york for example . . such walls are build to withstand many things, let alone 200 to 300 kilo of troll

[toturi]

[Kagetenshi]

[Stahlseele]

what was that proverb again?
HUMANS are Intelligent . . PEOPLE are stupid . .

[Moon-Hawk]

[MaxHunter]

This week one of the players in my group was toying with the idea of a needle-throwing afromerican activist troll ninja physical adept. For a campaign in Japan. Truly.

Fortunately another player caught him before he got to me with that -and I use the word loosely- character. He settled for an ork. I think, I still have to meet with the player.

Talk about common sense, ha.

Cheers,

Max

[Narse]

[Kagetenshi]

Someday I will be able to change my signature, and on that day, I will never suffer the aggravation of someone thinking I'm talking about SR4 ever again.

(Nothing against you personally, I've just been getting it a lot recently)

~J

[Stahlseele]

i feel your pain ^^

[Fortune]

I, on the other hand, revel in it. :D

[noonesshowmonkey]

I played with some creative players... And by creative I mean powergamers.

There was Beanpole - a troll sammie whose only job in life was to soak damage. He had a Body of nearly 20 and enough armor that he was shot with an Anti-Vehicle rocket and put down (well, through a wall) but not killed. He also fell from atop a stadium and soaked down to a light wound.

One player has tried to run a coca cola swilling paranoid android type that sat in a GMC Stepvan while the meat body was all 1's... Well, the Van was his character, really. He never left it. Also, he was using supplements I didn't have access to, some pretty wonky adding (sort of like Enron accounting) and just downright cheating at times to produce a "character" that was pretty absurd. He found it hilarious to have quad linked HMGs on a turret that did 30D that was undodgable. I wondered at what he possibly had in mind.

Another was a gecko shaman that was somewhere between a wannabe pornomancer, ninja, james bond woman, professional climber and gunslinger. Needless to say it was sort of like several, very different comic book strains had sex but bred a retard-bastard-man-bear-pig-chylde. We tweaked the concept a bit and she ended up really enjoying herself.

A recurrent character named "Angran" shows up in the hands of a good friend of mine. Likes to use Mind Control an awful lot, and when that fails its an Enfield AS-7. Really is sort of a case study in munchkinning. Not much more than a piece of paper with numbers on it, but the player is a really cool guy. F character A player.

- der menkey

"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter."
~ Ernest Hemingway

[Mercer]

I have to say, I have a certain amount of respect for a player that can make a cheesy but legitimate character, as long as its made by the book. If nothing else, it points out places in the system where the rules are weak and might need a little house rule spackle.

One of my favorites was the old Decrease Charisma spell, or as it was known, the "Sam Coma". On the one hand, it was a bit cheesy. On the other, it punished people who used CHA as a dump stat, which at the time was pretty common. (I didn't mind because I was playing an ork sam with a CHA of 4 and Tailored Pheremones, which IIRC would have required Decrease Modified Charisma-- good lord, this was 12 years and two editions ago.)

But I can handle a little cheese if its all in good fun. Like the troll sammie who carried a bag of baseballs and a bag of grenades painted like baseballs, or the ork phys ad who did as much damage with his bow as a Panther Cannon.

[Stahlseele]

i had a pretty bad GM use that spell against my troll sammy . . i had taken the bonus point in charisma . . and i rolled like a young god . . it was beautyfull to see the all high and mighty GM get pretty upset after having declared that he had found a way to stop my combat monster . . and not being able to do so with that spell ^^
granted, he pretty much wiped out the complete group . . 2 elves and a human and a dwarf with exeptional charisma . . but he could not do shit against me and my character . . never before did i have such fun . . ok, aside from when he declared chunky salsa to be stupid and i took 2 light stun wounds from 4 16M grenades *gg*