Sometimes I come up with these characters ideas that I know I'll never make. Because they're too odd, or too cliche, or just something I wrote when I had better ideas. Most of the time I just end up deleting them. We should have another thread for people to dump character concepts into. The old Odd Urges thread was archived, and it deserves a successor, because it had a ton of funny, sometimes good, ideas.
Onuk
The shaggy, cloven-hooved giant
mdesc:
Long, tangled clumps of ale-brown hair drape this giants body like the fur on a pains-ox. Second most remarkable about this mutated specimen are his massive legs; Thickly muscled with two knee-joints like the hind legs of a carru, they're supported by thick hooves cloven down the center. His massive frame seems sturdily supported by his legs, and when in motion his gait is smooth and strong. Dark, glossy eyes peer out from thick drapes of fur, devoid of the whites common among humanoids. His face is thick and bony, covered in short hair with a protruding forhead and cheeks and a jutting chin. His ears are wide and flat, each muscled to allow them to turn slightly towards sound. His furred body is parted by the occasional scar and his long arms end in hard, rough hands, the yellowed nails particularly thick.
sdesc:
Onuk raised himself in the desert wastes alone after he was cast out of a caravan because his parents feared and were disgusted by his mutation. Because of his young age when this happened his grasp on language has always been limited, and he often prefers to not speak at all. In the wastes he survived as carrion often do, eating from scraps of long dead corpses, and following beasts and game-trails towards watering holes. He's intensely curious, and can often spend days enamoured with the simplest of things. Still young, he has a lot to learn about the known, but survival comes natural too him having spent most of his time in the desert.
Warrior-Outdoorsman
end str wis agi
Spec-app wants:
Items: loincloth, spear, shoulder-slung satchel
Gains:
Can see through storms.
~300 movement points
High endurance.
Detriments:
Limited speech capability.
No riding.
No boots.
Miyaka
The deeply-scarred elf woman
Mdesc:
This elf woman's head has been shaven bald. She has a small, pointed nose, and deep-socketed green eyes. Her skin is covered in a myriad of scars, most old and long-healed. She's average of height, with a lean, sinuous build. Her face is marred by a long scar that stretches from the left cheekbone to her chin, deep like a crevice. The scar is wide at the center and narrows to three points where the flesh split open. The scar tissue is still a nasty shade of purple, and carries the small circular scars caused by uneven stitching along its edges.
Background:
Miyaka was born on the streets of The Labyrinth, raised in a small tribe of killers known for their displays of violence. When she was very young her parents were murdered. When she found their bodies she couldn't stand how ugly they seemed to be, sprawled and mishappen, and in an attempt to fix them she arranged their bodies and cleaned away their blood. Ever since Miyaka has been fascinated by death, and finds a certain artistic quality to it. She finds the macabre beautiful, and desirable.
details:
Murders people and arranges corpses in elaborate tableus.
Painter and artist of some sort.
Assassin-Master Crafter?
Merchant-slipknife?
Feel free to add your own ideas(or steal them/make them your own). Simple or complex. Funny or serious.
Sometimes I feel like "normal" is the special snowflake of Armageddon. Seeing other people's character ideas make me feel boring.
Mostly I just like the Good Time Charlie who hunts/grebs when he needs beer money. I don't need an emotionally scarring backstory. "Growing up in Gimmelshtump was very hard."
If you want a scarring backstory just pick Mul or Half elf and bang.
Honestly, as other people have said, when you have a big arching plan for a PC it can be easy to burn out of it. Sometimes, those ideas of "I'm just gonna roll a half-giant who mines obsidian for coin, and then spends that coin on expensive food" turns out to be a great role that is always fun.
That said, character idea:
A disfigured nomad, last vestige of a small family that got raided by gith. While not raised by them, tends to idolize them. Probably ranger, but spec-app to have a higher-capacity throw. Use throwing spears to attack people in the wilderness, and when they -are- dead, try to turn them into gith by disfiguring their feet and breaking their backs. When you DO see gith, stupidly go up to them and try to talk, no matter how many times they kick your ass.
Dwarf-like focus? Become accepted by the gith for your raiding and combat prowess. Bonus points if its through a PC gith.
Quote from: Riev on February 14, 2016, 11:18:54 AM
Honestly, as other people have said, when you have a big arching plan for a PC it can be easy to burn out of it. Sometimes, those ideas of "I'm just gonna roll a half-giant who mines obsidian for coin, and then spends that coin on expensive food" turns out to be a great role that is always fun.
That said, character idea:
A disfigured nomad, last vestige of a small family that got raided by gith. While not raised by them, tends to idolize them. Probably ranger, but spec-app to have a higher-capacity throw. Use throwing spears to attack people in the wilderness, and when they -are- dead, try to turn them into gith by disfiguring their feet and breaking their backs. When you DO see gith, stupidly go up to them and try to talk, no matter how many times they kick your ass.
Dwarf-like focus? Become accepted by the gith for your raiding and combat prowess. Bonus points if its through a PC gith.
Even bigger bonus if staff lets it happen.
I really want to give character ideas but half of mine just end up being League characters ;.;
I don't mind league-character copies so long as you don't also steal their name. I also don't mind fi you steal their name if your characters looks vastly different.
The general idea was:
Welcome to the tribe of (-Insert name here-)
A tribe vastly good at running away.
Having existed since the time of the dragon the tribe has had one, or two ,advantages throughout their life span.
They have a sorcerer at all times highly trained in movement sorcereries.
In the time of the Dragon this was largely used for other things as well, combat spells and the like, but over time they focused on one thing as it was easier to straight teach.
Run the fuck away.
Your character is one to be trained as the one that lets them run away, but out of their control their tribe has been destroyed and they are left alone.
Their master also dead they face uncertainty in the future.
Do they try and become a master at the art of fucking off like their own?
Do they try and find a way to rekindle the tribe?
Etc etc.
Well I've already had a sorc whose backstory was loosely based off of Jareth and Sarah, so my life is pretty much complete.
One of the things that sadden me is no matter how hard I'll ever try theres probably no ic way to become a sorcerer for characters that want to but I guess its still in the realm of possibility or some shit.
And getting 5 karma is just.
Well.
I have a job and school ;.;
I don't even have 5 karma yet. You're may be more likely to become a sorcerer through plots in-game than through karma-grinding. And I don't even know if that's still a possibility.
Dwarf Ranger, Movement Magick
Focus: Tektilolnes has ruled Allanak long enough, time to fly up to his tower and depose that fuck!
Added difficulty: Being Preserver only.
I love dwarves. Love em in every campaign setting EXCEPT this one. I'm not sure why. I think it's just that dwarves are normally so tradition bound and culturally structured but in this setting all that is ripped away.
You're left with a short, bald guy with a speech impairment.
One of my favorite character ideas is a young man who sincerely wants to open up a burlesque house in Allanak but has no business sense whatsoever. Cue antics.
The Battle Templar of Tektolnes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjaYW5Cnr5k
You know, I'm honestly not sad that I've never played a Sorcerer. It's the only option I've never played and have never had an interest in playing. Loneliness of a c-elf rinthi, spell grind of a magicker... x6, and the expectation that you'll have to lead plots. No thanks. Don't get me wrong, I loved having them because it meant that ambitious players could always do something fun to make the world more dangerous... but not my cup of tea. I like the extended subguild sorcs better, personally. Are those live yet??
I once had a character, a human who was obsessed with cutlery and making it. Finally, a use for the tinker subguild.
I always liked the idea of a black-haired krathi, or a flame-haired drovian, with brilliant red hair.
I was going to make a ranger with the express purpose of exploring that one place up north that I never got through the nasties to. Never did it.
We should have a couple more mutants in the game. People seem almost to accept the eye color mutants, something besides that because those seem to be fairly common.
Seriously though---- sometimes when my tinker character talked to people, she would say, "Do you like forks and spoons?" and start off a conversation about it and about how much she loved making and using cooking and eating cutlery.
A dwarf with the focus to sell spice in Allanak.
A tribal whose tribe is dead because they killed off the rest in order to get their hands on *starting money woo*
those extended subguild sorcs are now what you pick as a regular sorc.
I once wrote up a desc for fun for a HG mutant. I thought a giant who grew harm over his skin sounded sick af
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 14, 2016, 11:59:32 AM
I don't even have 5 karma yet. You're may be more likely to become a sorcerer through plots in-game than through karma-grinding. And I don't even know if that's still a possibility.
I.. uhh.. what? 17,000+ posts and less than 5 karma?
Quote from: Ender on February 15, 2016, 10:06:29 AM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 14, 2016, 11:59:32 AM
I don't even have 5 karma yet. You're may be more likely to become a sorcerer through plots in-game than through karma-grinding. And I don't even know if that's still a possibility.
I.. uhh.. what? 17,000+ posts and less than 5 karma?
Number of posts doesn't mean dick.
And they do factor GDB behavior into karma, I wish they didn't, but they do.
my ideas are too good i'm not sharing them
emote clutches her ideas covetously, like a dragon on a pile of gold.
Quote from: Asmoth on February 15, 2016, 10:07:40 AM
Quote from: Ender on February 15, 2016, 10:06:29 AM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 14, 2016, 11:59:32 AM
I don't even have 5 karma yet. You're may be more likely to become a sorcerer through plots in-game than through karma-grinding. And I don't even know if that's still a possibility.
I.. uhh.. what? 17,000+ posts and less than 5 karma?
Number of posts doesn't mean dick.
And they do factor GDB behavior into karma, I wish they didn't, but they do.
No, but being that invested in the community, but yet not having the level of trust to play a drovian is kinda mind boggling.
Quote from: Ender on February 15, 2016, 02:34:04 PM
Quote from: Asmoth on February 15, 2016, 10:07:40 AM
Quote from: Ender on February 15, 2016, 10:06:29 AM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 14, 2016, 11:59:32 AM
I don't even have 5 karma yet. You're may be more likely to become a sorcerer through plots in-game than through karma-grinding. And I don't even know if that's still a possibility.
I.. uhh.. what? 17,000+ posts and less than 5 karma?
Number of posts doesn't mean dick.
And they do factor GDB behavior into karma, I wish they didn't, but they do.
No, but being that invested in the community, but yet not having the level of trust to play a drovian is kinda mind boggling.
What boggled my mind was the great karma giveaway of years gone by. Loads of people getting rid of their karma because there were too many high karma characters running around. Instead of putting yourself in a zero karma rehab... just stop making magickers and muls for a while?
Quote from: Ender on February 15, 2016, 02:34:04 PM
Quote from: Asmoth on February 15, 2016, 10:07:40 AM
Quote from: Ender on February 15, 2016, 10:06:29 AM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 14, 2016, 11:59:32 AM
I don't even have 5 karma yet. You're may be more likely to become a sorcerer through plots in-game than through karma-grinding. And I don't even know if that's still a possibility.
I.. uhh.. what? 17,000+ posts and less than 5 karma?
Number of posts doesn't mean dick.
And they do factor GDB behavior into karma, I wish they didn't, but they do.
No, but being that invested in the community, but yet not having the level of trust to play a drovian is kinda mind boggling.
I have lost and gained karma mostly over blow ups with Nyr. Totally my fault, but it does suck how easy it is to lose and how hard it is to gain.
I didn't start being a decent player until the past couple years. I was never bad, I just never lived long enough for staff to see anything. Also I had another account with 2 karma that I had deleted. Also, Drovians and Krathi are 4 karma so it's all good. Having 4 Karma puts me in range of everything except sorcerers and Muls, neither of which I want to play.
But I agree I'm awesome and should have had 8 karma ages ago. ;)
Bernard Sanders
Guild: Krathi
Quote from: Synthesis on February 15, 2016, 03:26:55 PM
Bernard Sanders
Guild: Krathi
Rogue Krathi in the eyes of Nenyuk, heavily persecuted by their agents.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 15, 2016, 02:43:17 PM
I didn't start being a decent player until the past couple years. I was never bad, I just never lived long enough for staff to see anything. Also I had another account with 2 karma that I had deleted. Also, Drovians and Krathi are 4 karma so it's all good. Having 4 Karma puts me in range of everything except sorcerers and Muls, neither of which I want to play.
But I agree I'm awesome and should have had 8 karma ages ago. ;)
muls are 7 karma.
Quote from: evilcabbage on February 15, 2016, 05:48:30 PM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 15, 2016, 02:43:17 PM
I didn't start being a decent player until the past couple years. I was never bad, I just never lived long enough for staff to see anything. Also I had another account with 2 karma that I had deleted. Also, Drovians and Krathi are 4 karma so it's all good. Having 4 Karma puts me in range of everything except sorcerers and Muls, neither of which I want to play.
But I agree I'm awesome and should have had 8 karma ages ago. ;)
muls are 7 karma.
Err, you're right, confusing with psionicists.
I've more than 4 and I'm the shittiest poster ever so I doubt GDB's worth much cop
Although I don't shit up New Players Forum and I basically cannot post while drunk unless I'm on shisha and basically high and I mostly confine myself to using swears when people post crappy things to 'put out there for discussion'
I really want to play an HG merchant at some point, as well as a secret artist, as well as more male PCs because I really don't often and I should
HG anythingnotcombat is fun in general.
I want to play a spamcrafter merchant who goes to PC auctions, buys up all the things, and then junks them in front of everyone.
I would name him Shkreli.
I always wanted to make a parody of another PC
Half-elf rukkian named Rocks.
Casting has the unfortunate side effect of passing kidney stones and diamond hard stool.
Finally a half elf has has reasons to be angsty, and a magicker who has defiant reasoning for hating his own abilities.
psionicists are 8 karma.
Quote from: BadSkeelz on February 16, 2016, 02:05:15 PM
I want to play a spamcrafter merchant who goes to PC auctions, buys up all the things, and then junks them in front of everyone.
I would name him Shkreli.
You make me happy
RPing a character based on the people of bronze-age northwestern china/mongolia/gobi desert
Quote from: 650Booger on February 18, 2016, 06:01:27 AM
RPing a character based on the people of bronze-age northwestern china/mongolia/gobi desert
I'm sorry, I think you're looking for the "Character Ideas. (Awesome Urges)" thread.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7QgErCPIY0/UhXUsgEqk4I/AAAAAAAASSU/R3EaOfsfZtM/s1600/you+may+be+cool.jpg)
I want to play a Warrior/Slipknife based entirely on this gentleman:
(http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/Riddick-Vin-Diesel.jpg)
(And at some point I probably will.)
Spec-app mutant Warrior/Slipknife with infra vision. Fuck yeah that'd be badass.
He'd have an excuse to always have his sunslits on even when inside, at least.
The one-legged captain of a silt skimmer whose mission in life is to kill the white silt horror who chomped his leg.
The hand crossbow slinging ranger/mercenary named Roland thats hunting after the Defiler simply named "The man in black"
He'll get him one day.
Bonus points if it is secretly Tektolnes
A magicker who's Sdesc/Name has absolutely nothing to do with their element, like...purposely deceivingly so.
The Flame haired, sunkissed woman "Ember"
Out in the wastes somewhere
A Templar is here, fighting a mekillot.
A bunch of soldiers, also fighting the mek.
The Flame haired, Sunkissed woman is standing here.
Templar (yelling as he does epic battle) Now is the time, witch, use your foul magicks on this beast!
The Flame haired, Sunkissed woman looks wide eyed between the group of soldiers and the large mekillot, wide eyed.
The Flame Haired, sunkissed woman (Tenatively, as she begins to lift her arms) Are..you sure, Lord Templar?
Templar (Angrily) Do it now!!
The Flame Haired, sunkissed woman just shrugs, and then waves her hands, doing magicky shit.
The Flame Haired, sunkissed woman heals the mekillot, fully with her Viv powers.
Templar (eyes widening, as the mek comes down on the group with newed vigor) What the fuck did you do that for!!?
The Flame Haired, sunkissed woman says (spreading her palms helplessly, innocently) Why, you told me to Lord Templar.
The drov black skinned man
-Krathi
The bright featured man- include how he seems to radiate life in his desc
He's a nilazi
Dwarf
Focus: Keep everyone young
Method: subguild apothecary, mastercraft beauty cremes and skin care treatments. Also go assassin, max backstab, kill all (N)PCs over the age of thirty.
Quote from: BadSkeelz on February 19, 2016, 05:30:50 PM
Dwarf
Focus: Keep everyone young
Method: subguild apothecary, mastercraft beauty cremes and skin care treatments. Also go assassin, max backstab, kill all (N)PCs over the age of thirty.
I remember reading this before.
It was funny then and now.
It's the only good dwarf focus I've managed to come up with.
Edit: Well, that and Dwarf!Trump who wants everyone to see his name in lights on a tall building. He would have to get the building built, then learn read/write to write his name on it, and then spread literacy so everyone else could learn to read it too.
Dwarf with the focus to build a bigger wall around Allanak to keep out the dirty tribals.
Quote from: Synthesis on February 15, 2016, 03:26:55 PM
Bernard Sanders
Guild: Krathi
Labyrinth elf?
Burny Sandas?
Burning sandass sounds like a disease.
Ho ho ho. Burny Sanders and Burny Sandas. Jokes I could never tell anyone else. ;D
Quote from: WanderingOoze on February 19, 2016, 11:54:49 AM
A magicker who's Sdesc/Name has absolutely nothing to do with their element, like...purposely deceivingly so.
The Flame haired, sunkissed woman "Ember"
Out in the wastes somewhere
A Templar is here, fighting a mekillot.
A bunch of soldiers, also fighting the mek.
The Flame haired, Sunkissed woman is standing here.
Templar (yelling as he does epic battle) Now is the time, witch, use your foul magicks on this beast!
The Flame haired, Sunkissed woman looks wide eyed between the group of soldiers and the large mekillot, wide eyed.
The Flame Haired, sunkissed woman (Tenatively, as she begins to lift her arms) Are..you sure, Lord Templar?
Templar (Angrily) Do it now!!
The Flame Haired, sunkissed woman just shrugs, and then waves her hands, doing magicky shit.
The Flame Haired, sunkissed woman heals the mekillot, fully with her Viv powers.
Templar (eyes widening, as the mek comes down on the group with newed vigor) What the fuck did you do that for!!?
The Flame Haired, sunkissed woman says (spreading her palms helplessly, innocently) Why, you told me to Lord Templar.
Love this
The "opposite-looking magicker" thing has been done a million times already, yo.
To be fair everything's been done a million times.
So fuck em and play what you want.
My last "opposite-looking" magicker actually made total sense. He was a Krathi that people often thought was a Drovian.
He had the word "ethereal" in his sdesc because he was secretly a skinnypants breed.
He loved to wear all black because he enjoyed absorbing the heat.
His skin was oddly pale because the sun didn't affect him that much.
Quote from: Beethoven on February 20, 2016, 09:29:25 AM
My last "opposite-looking" magicker actually made total sense. He was a Krathi that people often thought was a Drovian.
He had the word "ethereal" in his sdesc because he was secretly a skinnypants breed.
He loved to wear all black because he enjoyed absorbing the heat.
His skin was oddly pale because the sun didn't affect him that much.
so meta
I didn't really think about it! It just kind of turned out that way.
A spec app'd half elf warior that has mul rage code because of how pissed he gets.
I wanna spec app a kylori. A CIVILIZED (relatively) Kylori.
Quote from: WanderingOoze on February 20, 2016, 02:14:55 PM
I wanna spec app a kylori. A CIVILIZED (relatively) Kylori.
Same, but a magera.
(https://i.imgur.com/tAV3wHl.png)
It always bother me when I kill humanoid creatures ;.;
I just want to be your friend.
Except Gith
Fuck you if you play Gith.
Icly of course.
Quote from: Jihelu on February 20, 2016, 02:46:28 PM
It always bother me when I kill humanoid creatures ;.;
I just want to be your friend.
Except Gith
Fuck you if you play Gith.
Icly of course.
Protip: It doesn't bother the humanoid creatures when they kill you.
Quote from: Malifaxis on February 20, 2016, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Jihelu on February 20, 2016, 02:46:28 PM
It always bother me when I kill humanoid creatures ;.;
I just want to be your friend.
Except Gith
Fuck you if you play Gith.
Icly of course.
Protip: It doesn't bother the humanoid creatures when they kill you.
We aren't like them.
A gick that claims to have been gick'd through time, talking about the world HE knows where Red Storm was manned by gith and mantis were free to sit at the bar with their metal weapons.
Amos von Frankenstein
Nilazi/Apothecary
Quote from: WanderingOoze on February 19, 2016, 11:54:49 AM
A magicker who's Sdesc/Name has absolutely nothing to do with their element, like...purposely deceivingly so.
The Flame haired, sunkissed woman "Ember"
(http://i.imgur.com/nmGEwni.jpg)
>.> what?
Quote from: WanderingOoze on February 21, 2016, 03:13:13 AM
>.> what?
http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,50330.msg923947.html#msg923947 (http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,50330.msg923947.html#msg923947)
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 21, 2016, 03:51:52 AM
Quote from: WanderingOoze on February 21, 2016, 03:13:13 AM
>.> what?
http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,50330.msg923947.html#msg923947 (http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,50330.msg923947.html#msg923947)
.....oh, oops.
we're just teasing you a bit. At least I am.
I think it would be a great role
Quote from: LauraMars on February 21, 2016, 02:47:22 PM
we're just teasing you a bit. At least I am.
I think it would be a great role
As a side note, thats a great thread.
I want to play a pc based on Kevin Hart during his standups.
The short, black skinned human shouts, in sirish (running back and forth, fist to mouth) OOOOOOH, HE SAID SHE AIN'T GOT NO NIPPLES!
Half-elf who looks just enough like both humans and elves to pass himself off as either with the right makeup. Has multiple personalities, one is human, the other is elf and neither are aware of each-other.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 24, 2016, 09:48:26 PM
Half-elf who looks just enough like both humans and elves to pass himself off as either with the right makeup. Has multiple personalities, one is human, the other is elf and neither are aware of each-other.
Bonus pts if the character becomes their own nemesis and all the MCB takes place IN house. lol
A character that knows he's a character in an RPI text-based mud.
I'm so sad that halflings are gone.
I always wanted to make a sexy shoeless god of war.
Quote from: Jingo on February 24, 2016, 10:57:26 PM
A character that knows he's a character in an RPI text-based mud.
A character that knows he is a figment of imagination in a Mind/ Hive Mind.
Quote from: solera on February 25, 2016, 12:52:38 PM
Quote from: Jingo on February 24, 2016, 10:57:26 PM
A character that knows he's a character in an RPI text-based mud.
A character that knows he is a figment of imagination in a Mind/ Hive Mind.
I love this. Every time he would use think he would be talking directly to the player.
You think:
"You really think we should be doing this?"
You think:
"Alright, whatever, you're the boss."
>kill gaj
A Mul ranger/thief who tries to pickpocket people in the wilderness and dares them to do anything to stop him.
Quote from: BadSkeelz on February 26, 2016, 02:17:11 PM
A Mul ranger/thief who tries to pickpocket people in the wilderness and dares them to do anything to stop him.
The short and thick figure in a hooded reinforced sandcloth duster says, in sirihish:
"Turn around, hold your arms up, spread your feet."
The short and thick figure in a hooded reinforced sandcloth duster begins patting you down.
You feel a hand in your belongings but are unable to catch the culprit.
You feel a hand in your belongings but are unable to catch the culprit.
You feel a hand in your belongings but are unable to catch the culprit.
You say, in sirihish:
"Ummm...."
The short and thick figure in a hooded reinforced sandcloth duster shouts, in sirihish:
"STOP RESISTING"
The short and thick figure in a hooded reinforced sandcloth duster attacks you.
The short and thick figure in a hooded reinforced sandcloth duster bludgeons your head, inflicting a grievous wound.
Your vision goes black.
I had earlier had the idea to app the Byn Mul, make him morbidly obese "with a six-pack tattooed on his chest." He'd be a Pickpocket something and spend all his time stealing rations out of runners' packs. I think some staffer said they could even set his Hunger flag to permanently -1 or something so he'd always be hungry.
I should not be allowed to play muls.
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on February 28, 2016, 07:30:12 PM
"the <beverage>-skinned, <color I don't know>-tressed fme",
I am making
the beverage-skinned woman as my next character.
A man from earth who got sucked into a computer game. And not only does no one believe him. Nobody on Zalanthas could possibly imagine a computer.
And has freakish powers?
Quote from: Barsook on February 28, 2016, 09:54:34 PM
And has freakish powers?
Nah, spec.app so everything but wisdom is absolutely bottom tier to represent what a pansy ass your average earthling is to a zalanthian.
I was thinking of Freakazoid for some reason.
Quote from: LauraMars on February 28, 2016, 08:26:09 PM
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on February 28, 2016, 07:30:12 PM
"the <beverage>-skinned, <color I don't know>-tressed fme",
I am making the beverage-skinned woman as my next character.
the ale-skinned man
the martini-colored male
the whiskey-haired schlub
the moscow-mule-hued man
A character that has traveled back from the future to try to stop a current character.
The twist: The player is also from the future and is trying to stop themself.
Quote from: BadSkeelz on February 28, 2016, 10:12:59 PM
Quote from: LauraMars on February 28, 2016, 08:26:09 PM
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on February 28, 2016, 07:30:12 PM
"the <beverage>-skinned, <color I don't know>-tressed fme",
I am making the beverage-skinned woman as my next character.
the ale-skinned man
the martini-colored male
the whiskey-haired schlub
the moscow-mule-hued man
the buttery-nippled woman.
Quote from: JackGibbons on March 07, 2016, 08:09:45 PM
the buttery-nippled woman.
Ha! It was 1996 at a bar in Austin and I ... hrm. Maybe not an appropriate story.
Bastard Noble quadruplets. Who's ready to start a family?
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on March 09, 2016, 12:43:17 AM
Bastard Noble quadruplets. Who's ready to start a family?
I'll sign up for it if you do.
The family of dwarves who all want to commit suicide in a grand way
A devotions Templar who's a hardcore alcoholic and spicer.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on March 12, 2016, 01:12:03 PM
A devotions Templar who's a hardcore alcoholic and spicer.
Tuluk had one. Was epic. RIP Tuluk.
sdesc: the lanky, blonde-curled man
assassin/tailor
Kidnaps young women from around the city, kills them and skins them.
Makes their hides into a full set of clothes, including a mask
Often caught seen dancing in the Gaj dorm in nothing but a patterned robe, asking if people would f*** him.
A character with this as their theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-K6yN4hEQ
I don't know who or what that character would be (or even most of what's being said in the song), but I want to play them.
Quote from: BadSkeelz on March 29, 2016, 10:22:41 PM
A character with this as their theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-K6yN4hEQ
I don't know who or what that character would be (or even most of what's being said in the song), but I want to play them.
Mul merchant.
Make a merchant house
That makes hispanic food
I didn't understand a word of that song but it got me dancing this morning when I woke up. Put me in a good mood.
I kind of want to take the current Borsail role just to see how quickly I could kill my character with an entirely PC-supplied spice addiction.
Lol.
I want to make a blind wind mage.
"thwap" "Thwack" "Thwop" "Boom" "Crack"
say (looking up as dust drops down from the ceiling once again) We have a blind Whiran, our upstairs neighbor, practicing his flight spells inside his room again.
Quote from: Inklings on March 15, 2016, 12:40:09 AM
sdesc: the lanky, blonde-curled man
assassin/tailor
Kidnaps young women from around the city, kills them and skins them.
Makes their hides into a full set of clothes, including a mask
Often caught seen dancing in the Gaj dorm in nothing but a patterned robe, asking if people would f*** him.
But where are you going to get the lotion?
perhaps this should be in NPQs, but would it be possible to make a dwarf that had fur, using a spec-app?
Quote from: 650Booger on April 01, 2016, 01:50:37 PM
perhaps this should be in NPQs, but would it be possible to make a dorf that had fur, using a spec-app?
Short answer: yes
Long answer: Yes but no.
Staff doesn't want to change in depth parts of races.
IE: Letting an elf ride a mount, a half giant not being retarded, a Breed not having daddy issues. That sorta thing.
Claws and shit tho are gucci.
Give your dwarf scales fam.
A dwarf who wants to master every weapon skill, rather than be the best hunter or warrior. He ignores retarded shit like tactics, shields and proper gear.
human, merchant / linguist
Start a whore house - hire only women and call all the girls treggies.
I'll hire artists to paint them and make them famous for scandalous likelinesses and be the first person to alienate by gender.
- I'll start a trend of alienating women and start a war of the sexes. Soon even the templarate in allanak will begin to feud and sides will no longer be the oppressed and the oppressors. It will be the men against women. After a time someone with real power and intention will become annoyed and make it a point to address both sides, but to no avail... the people will still fight and even the lower templars will find a way to be spiteful to the opposite sex.
I will have changed the world of zalanthas! I would grin knowing that I'd made my mark in the world. I'd close down my house and stop hiring artists and I'd fund certain unreasonable persons from both sides who are willing to martyr themselves for ''their'' cause. heh heh... my cause.
I would do this... just for a laugh. Just for my entertainment. Just how far could I make this go /and/ live?
OOCly, I would feel terrible for making the world I like to play in even worse.
**
unless... someone were to plot against me. Unless someone knew that I was playing the puppet master... hm. I would have a figurehead. I would have a capable underling who was also as diabolical as me, but ... not enough to overthrow me. In fact... Maybe I would be one of the employees. Brilliant... muahahaha!
This person plotting to stop me from changing the world would write laws or get them written or just flat out kill me - but instead killing my figure head. Or maybe they would just kill the treggies.... hm... I would need protection as well as my figurehead.
At any rate, if I ever got it off the ground it would be too late. Too late! I would of already affected the world with my scandalous likelinesses! Muahaha!
Fear me!
If I ever play a half-giant I'm going to base them on Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove.
Or maybe I'll just make it a regular human. That would be even funnier.
(http://i.imgur.com/pDR3U.gif)
Oh, and he has to be a master chef.
(http://i.imgur.com/DUV6LSU.gif)
And a half-elf
(https://ohmy.disney.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2014/03/Deep-Thoughts-with-Kronk-Languages.png)
A half-elf burglar - master chef.
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/km40jvV5lhM/hqdefault.jpg)
Quote from: LauraMars on April 11, 2016, 08:32:25 PM
If I ever play a half-giant I'm going to base them on Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove.
Or maybe I'll just make it a regular human. That would be even funnier.
(http://i.imgur.com/pDR3U.gif)
Oh, and he has to be a master chef.
(http://i.imgur.com/DUV6LSU.gif)
There was a Corporal Kronk IG a bit over a year and a half ago :)
A dwarf who's focus is to take over Allanak with an army of animated stone soldiers or one that wants to take over Tuluk with an army of animated wooden soldiers.
Bonus points for those who can get the reference.
Quote from: Barsook on May 24, 2016, 09:54:27 PM
A dwarf who's focus is to take over Allanak with an army of animated stone soldiers or one that wants to take over Tuluk with an army of animated wooden soldiers.
Bonus points for those who can get the reference.
I don't know if this is right, but I used to watch the colorized version at my grandparents house every summer.
https://youtu.be/0bqwT5BbyuE
I want to make an Edward Teach themed PC, except instead of a ship he has a wagon he goes around Zalanthas' sandy wastes using to rob people with his crew of rejects.
Quote from: Vositus on May 24, 2016, 10:03:33 PM
Quote from: Barsook on May 24, 2016, 09:54:27 PM
A dwarf who's focus is to take over Allanak with an army of animated stone soldiers or one that wants to take over Tuluk with an army of animated wooden soldiers.
Bonus points for those who can get the reference.
I don't know if this is right, but I used to watch the colorized version at my grandparents house every summer.
https://youtu.be/0bqwT5BbyuE
Nope. It's really a Russian one that only Russian players should get. But close.
Quote from: LauraMars on April 11, 2016, 08:32:25 PM
If I ever play a half-giant I'm going to base them on Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove.
Or maybe I'll just make it a regular human. That would be even funnier.
(http://i.imgur.com/pDR3U.gif)
Oh, and he has to be a master chef.
(http://i.imgur.com/DUV6LSU.gif)
Fairly certain I already did this character. ;)
Quote from: Miradus on July 01, 2016, 11:23:22 AM
My time in Arm's low fantasy setting has made me desirous to become a demilich bound for godhood.
This makes me want to stop making mundane, everyday characters and blow some minds.
My next character was supposed to be fun and a dream come true. A guild/subguild combination I've wanted to do since I started playing.
But I'll make that demilich if you don't think it's possible. And I'll do it with ranger/gladiator. It'd make more sense to do it with warrior/enchantment magick, but I like a challenge.
Jumpin' on the lizzie crazy defense of ARM train! (no offense Lizzie)
(http://img.cinemablend.com/cb/2/0/2/c/6/2/202c628b7fcd79c04584937372f5de01674f8d6cfb27df174a44972957344000.jpg)
I cannot believe there's never been a person who looked at all the magical power Tektolnes has obtained and the secular and theological authority he wields and said, "I'm a gonna take that shit."
I have a great idea for my next character and I'm going to see if I can pull it off or if someone murders me in the womb.
There has been... but... well, that's a can of worms I won't get into, suffice it to say you hit a glass ceiling with super-powered PCs that ends in sadness and storage.
These days, it's nowhere near possible to achieve the coded heights of power that would be required for epic-level quests. We're a lot more down to earth now.
I'm deeply, deeply saddened by that.
In order to have a lot of fun with that role, you wouldn't even have to start off powerful. Or even in any way succeed with your delusions of grandeur.
Just simply one day, Joe Salter looks up at the walls and says, "Fuck this. I'm going to own that place."
I mean, if you're okay with dying very quickly, that sounds like a lot of fun. I guess I was cautioning against any illusions of success or survival.
Quote from: Delirium on July 01, 2016, 01:46:13 PM
I mean, if you're okay with dying very quickly, that sounds like a lot of fun. I guess I was cautioning against any illusions of success or survival.
Heh. No worries. Neither success nor survival are necessary for *fun*.
I mean, it would be a shame if someone walked back to the bar and said, "I met this crazy hermit out in the salt flats and he said he wanted to kill the Highlord so I killed him. Look at these boots I took off his body. Nice boots, huh?"
But that still makes for a better common story than, "Hey, I found this corpse in the desert. Killed by a raptor, I think. Look at these boots. Nice boots, huh?"
This is a good attitude to have toward the game, and I whole-heartedly agree :D
I'd love to try and play a Nilazi someday. Looks like it's never going to happen with some of the changes that have been made, but something I'd always wanted to try was a lonely nilazi who dragged bodies from the pile back to his apartment late at night, and animated them for company like some sort of demented cat person.
Quote from: yousuff on July 01, 2016, 07:38:24 PM
I'd love to try and play a Nilazi someday. Looks like it's never going to happen with some of the changes that have been made, but something I'd always wanted to try was a lonely nilazi who dragged bodies from the pile back to his apartment late at night, and animated them for company like some sort of demented cat person.
I'd advise you not do necromancy in the highlords city but eh.
/shrug/
The nilazi that tries to save existence with his death, keeping the mentality 'death and life are just part of the same cycle', would be interesting. The holy unholy warrior!
Quote from: yousuff on July 01, 2016, 07:38:24 PM
I'd love to try and play a Nilazi someday. Looks like it's never going to happen with some of the changes that have been made, but something I'd always wanted to try was a lonely nilazi who dragged bodies from the pile back to his apartment late at night, and animated them for company like some sort of demented cat person.
Oh my god I did this. I had a breed who would find corpses, smuggle them into her lair, and have tea parties just for company while she teetered on the edge of (further) mental breakdowns.
Spoiler alert: she eventually broke down further.
I have not been able to find any docs on the actual "religion" of the Highlord. Which sucks because I've always wanted to play Arm's version of this guy ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjaYW5Cnr5k
I have an ambition to flesh out that religion some day. And execute some heretics...maybe officially, maybe unofficially, depending on the PC ;)
There's little religion to it. It's mostly just fanaticism.
A dwarf that tries to convince the templarate he is a gick to get gemmed, while all he does is sleight of hand tricks.