Character Ideas - RP

[Deykari]

There's always threads about people asking for character ideas in terms of cabal/race/class combo, but what about in terms of personalities, backgrounds and roleply?

I think it would be interesting to see some character ideas people have come up with - whether you intend to use them or not (though people may have an issue with posting the former incase they get stolen, which is understandable ). Even character ideas for past characters you may have had, that you wish to give us a bit of insight into that we as observers may not know about - like the inner workings of the character's mind.

No need to go into great detail if you don’t want to, a couple of lines overview could still be interesting.

This thread could either be quite interesting, or it could just flop and fall on it’s arse, depending on people’s willingness to post character ideas that they may wish to use.

Dey

[Minotaur]

I thought about playing a human lich child who stored his power in his favorite doll. He would have a child like mentality, childs greed, with childs knowledge of the world. Could you imagine what would happen with an undead lich king child?

lol. NOW THAT is scary! maybe when i get more experienced in the game though.

[Deykari]

That would be very cool, especially if the Lich was childlike in the sense that he was naïve to the actual true power he possessed.

Here’s a very basic idea of mine that I had a while ago when I wanted to play a non-serious character, and would have used if it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t think I will ever want to play a necromancer. I had a better idea to use anyway.

Illithid (Restrung to Plasm Beast) Necromancer

The Plasm Beasts are a downtrodden race, bred by the MUD School Trainers to be fodder for many up-and-coming adventurers. But not any more…

One Plasm Beast was born with an almost supernatural intelligence. It cannot speak (just buggles and gurgles) but can communicate through telepathy. It can even utilise it’s mindpower to cast spells, and so it makes it’s great (albeit bloody) escape, and sets out to take it’s revenge on the world for treating it’s race as nothing but fodder for thousands of years. How does it plan on doing this? It studies Necromancy, to raise great Undead beings to act as bodyguards for it’s small, weak, plasmy-beasty frame. It then wants to join Nexus and tap into the powers of the rift, to be able to capture and emprison everybody who passed through the MUD school in a giant Arena, torturing them, by way of unleashing a new breed of super-intelligent Plasm Beast upon them. It basically wants to reverse things, using all other races in Aabahran as fodder whilst Plasm Beast prey upon them.

Would have more of a comedy angle to the character than a serious one.

Dey

[Minotaur]

That would be very cool, especially if the Lich was childlike in the sense that he was naïve to the actual true power he possessed.

Here’s a very basic idea of mine that I had, and would have used if it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t think I will ever want to play a necromancer.

Illithid (Restrung to Plasm Beast) Necromancer

The Plasm Beasts are a downtrodden race, bred by the MUD School Trainers to be fodder for many up-and-coming adventurers. But not any more…

One Plasm Beast was born with an almost supernatural intelligence. It cannot speak (just buggles and gurgles) but can communicate through telepathy. It can even utilise it’s mindpower to cast spells, and so it makes it’s great (albeit bloody) escape, and sets out to take it’s revenge on the world for treating it’s race as nothing but fodder for thousands of years. How does it plan on doing this? It studies Necromancy, to raise great Undead beings to act as bodyguards for it’s small, weak, plasmy-beasty frame. It then wants to join Nexus and tap into the powers of the rift, to be able to capture and emprison everybody who passed through the MUD school in a giant Arena, torturing them, by way of unleashing a new breed of super-intelligent Plasm Beast upon them. It basically wants to reverse things, using all other races in Aabahran as fodder whilst Plasm Beast prey upon them.

Would have more of a comedy angle to the character than a serious one.

Dey

lol death by plasma beast, muahaha!

[Guest emp_newb]

Someone pl ayed a savant squid restrung to plasm, had the gurgles disgustingly Pmotes and everything.

I have always wanted to roleplay a necromancer who had trouble creating undead properly, so his army would be very haphazard, and reluctant to do his bidding, ultimately leading the necromancer to his demise, therefor he sends his last ditch effort out and attempts to become a lich, unquestioned masters of undead.

[English lad]

If I ever got good enough at PK to be taken seriously in the role.

Elf Bmg

Last scion of the Royal Line, smuggled out of the fall of the Elven Cities as a child. Vengeful, bitter and arrogant, more than just a little racist. A character doomed to eventually fail in his attempt to reclaim a throne and raise the Elven Nation due to his shortsightedness and arrogance. A tragic figure.

[Shaun]

I really like your idea, Dey.

[Deykari]

I like that idea, English Lad. I love characters with flaws in their personalities, rather than characters that are ‘perfect’ models of whatever cause they are backing. In reality, nobody is perfect and it would be good to see more characters with undesirable personality traits as well as desirable ones.

I think there is a lot of roleplay unexplored with the Drow race. The Drow society is a matriarchal one, and most PC characters are male, with Drow no exception. Male Drow, many of whom should be serving their Matron Mothers, are joining cabals and reaching the peaks of power in their guilds. I’m sure the Matron Mother(s) wouldn’t be happy about numbers of Male Drow somehow escaping Xymerria and becoming all-powerful beings. An example character I’d love to see from that would be a a loyal female Drow of high position, close to the Matron Mother, leaving the Underdark tasked with assassinating (not in the sense of the ninja class skill, just in general) all male Drow for forsaking their duties to their Matron Mother.

Dey

[Guest emp_newb]

That is kind of how Vasraema worked, She served the One, Lloth, and went out to wreak havoc on those that did not worship their rightful god, ESPESCIALLY other drow.

[English lad]

I like that idea, English Lad. I love characters with flaws in their personalities, rather than characters that are ‘perfect’ models of whatever cause they are backing. In reality, nobody is perfect and it would be good to see more characters with undesirable personality traits as well as desirable ones.

I think there is a lot of roleplay unexplored with the Drow race. The Drow society is a matriarchal one, and most PC characters are male, with Drow no exception. Male Drow, many of whom should be serving their Matron Mothers, are joining cabals and reaching the peaks of power in their guilds. I’m sure the Matron Mother(s) wouldn’t be happy about numbers of Male Drow somehow escaping Xymerria and becoming all-powerful beings. An example character I’d love to see from that would be a a loyal female Drow of high position, close to the Matron Mother, leaving the Underdark tasked with assassinating (not in the sense of the ninja class skill, just in general) all male Drow for forsaking their duties to their Matron Mother.

Dey

I completely agree that any well RP'd character should be flawed, its one of the things, however that comes down to how important RP is as opposed to overall character strength. Few people are willing to take actions that flesh out their character at the sake of overall PWNness. Look at most evil chars for example, and then look at most fantasy backgrounds and books. In almost all stories Evil chars hold all the cards, but its their personality flaws that eventually allow good to win through. In FL a lot of Evils just hold the cards, because its more "fun" for most people to "win", then it is for them to "lose" due to their characters RP. I put all that in inverted commas because I really think the idea of "winning" and "losing" are things that shouldn't really exist in the MUD. From my POV a supreme evil character who has the chance to dominate, but who the Player allows to lose due to a character flaw, being betrayed from within, or other typical fantasy storylines has "won" more than someone who PKs the playerbase for a few months, then gets bored and deletes or moves on to another project.

[Questioner]

Dey, it is hard to take you seriously after your plasm beast delete post.

A character idea I have had for some time was a human of any class that had an intricate family history, detailed to the death of his great-grandparents, involving other characters. The rp would spiral from there because of the human factor of unpredictability. With some luck and right timing, people who really had no connections to the character would become drawn into twisted adventures and thus enriching the character's life, as well as sculpting the life of other characters.

It really doesn't matter how the character's history is laid out, that is entirely up to the person. But how they progress and interact with everyone is the key to having a great character.

He could be evil, good, neutral; disabled, gimpy, strong, fit, or ugly; extrovert, introvert, mute; hateful, despiteful, envious; caring, compassionate, holy. The list goes on.

[Deykari]

Dey, it is hard to take you seriously after your plasm beast delete post.

Eh?

Dey

[mya]

I had an idea of making a WereBeast and RP him as a human that would in fullmoon night strike at the nearest target friend or foe in the cities.

But the catch is:

It would be berserker, and once transformed he would not flee and would rage at first chance.

It would be fun. Can you imagine you having a chat with your friend in the Commons and sudently he starts to become very strange, transform howl to the moon and try to eat you untill draybreak?

Of course it could be done 60 times...

In the end the random chance to get the beast you wish ruined it for me after 8 L15 werebeasts.

[Malchaeius]

Here are some that I have always wanted to play, but I doubt I will ever have the time:

A prankster style bard who pulled a joke on a witch/cleric of some sort in his youth, and was thus cursed to forever speak in rhyme until he fulfills some kind of abstract prophecy or proves that he has changed his ways. So he travels around the world telling stories and hoping that one day he will be able to find a way to break his curse and have his own story told.

A Tasslehoff style halfling or faerie thief, maybe even restrung to Kender, who is a kleptomaniac and does not even realize it. He is addicted to adventure, but does not particularly enjoy killing and tries to avoid it as much as possible. Quick to make friends with everyone, but will most likely make more enemies because he simply can not stop himself from "finding things" that "other people must have dropped".

A middle-aged warrior who used to be a Paladin but was removed from the guildhall due to his strict adherence to his own code of honor. This code of honor has him judge evil not by what the Gods tell him through communion, but by the actions he perceives from others. One day while on a campaign with his Paladin brethren, they stumble on a village of Fire Giants, and they immediately set upon destroying the entire village - man, woman, and children. He is appalled by this, as his code calls to never harm women, children, or unarmed foes. So he single-handedly slays all of his brethren, and thus invokes the wrath of his God and guildhall. At this point, I have yet to make up my mind as to what fits him best - dark-knight (i.e. anti-paladin) or neutral warrior. As in his heart, he still hates what he considers evil, but refuses to allow the Gods to tell him what exactly is evil. So he becomes an agnostic and pays the consequence by having all of his prayers stripped from him and being made an outcast. Now he sets on his open-ended journey to rid the world of everyone who does not adhere to his code - whether they be "good", "neutral", or "evil" - and maybe through this he will find redemption.

[Evangelion]

I have always wanted to play a demon bard.

One example of an RP that I thought about using for it was a Siren. More intelligent than her peers, she sees the end of an era of art and music, and it angers her. So she goes around promoting an Aabahranian Renaissance, calling for painters and artists and musicians to join her cause. However, all who spurn her would incite her anger.

Then, as the power of the Demon infuses with her, she slowly slips into madness, and the power of her song becomes the power of death walking. Discord takes over her voice, and transforms her from a Siren, beautiful and alluring, into a Banshee, terrifying and powerful.

[Greyanhk]

Some simple ideas to spur the RP juices flowing:

A female human warrior who is bent on proving to everyone that she can be just a good a soldier as any man. A medieval woman's rights activist.

A half-elf anything who has a deep seated racial hatred of humans and elves/drow for neither accepting him. All through childhood he was ostracized for being a half-breed.

An evil human monk restrung as a flesh golem who rebelled against his necromancer, killing him and now is trying to find a family to belong to.

An avian thief restrung as a crow who is targets anyone who trained their weapons near the scarecrows.

An undead anything that believes it is cursed and spends the rest of its days trying to find the cure for undeath and become living again.

A human anything that becomes a Tribunal and uses his power and station to increase his wealth by passing and enforcing absurd taxes like; tax on drinking milk, tax on flying over a dry street, a tax on standing in the rain if it is lightning. He would also accept bribes for release and bribes for warranting.

A slith thief who collects precious

[Deykari]

Rofl, love the Crow idea.

Dey

[corpsestomp]

A female halfling thief with a shoe fetish. Swipes everyone's boots, nothing else at all, just shoes, keeps them in a bag or carries them around.

A stone giant, restrung to golem, that is inhabited by the spirit of a drow necro who transferred his life force to the golem to escape death.

[Evangelion]

Some simple ideas to spur the RP juices flowing:

A female human warrior who is bent on proving to everyone that she can be just a good a soldier as any man. A medieval woman's rights activist.

A half-elf anything who has a deep seated racial hatred of humans and elves/drow for neither accepting him. All through childhood he was ostracized for being a half-breed.

An evil human monk restrung as a flesh golem who rebelled against his necromancer, killing him and now is trying to find a family to belong to.

An avian thief restrung as a crow who is targets anyone who trained their weapons near the scarecrows.

An undead anything that believes it is cursed and spends the rest of its days trying to find the cure for undeath and become living again.

A human anything that becomes a Tribunal and uses his power and station to increase his wealth by passing and enforcing absurd taxes like; tax on drinking milk, tax on flying over a dry street, a tax on standing in the rain if it is lightning. He would also accept bribes for release and bribes for warranting.

A slith thief who collects precious

I actually had a character who did a spin on the undead thing, and found the cure, and then died.

There's an RP log of it under "The Emlentum".

[Aulian]

An evil human monk restrung as a flesh golem who rebelled against his necromancer' date=' killing him and[b'] now is trying to find a family to belong to.

Lol that made me crack up

[songofsixpence]

One I've tossed around but never decided to play:

Faerie (Restrung to Imp) BMG

A lesser imp, escaped from the Nexus, but isn't really evil. Instead it likes to play tricks on people, of all kinds, but without intent of really harming anyone (beyond some mental torment). Of course, being a lesser imp, it isn't exactly in control, or complete understanding of it's power, and occasionally slips and kills someone/thing.

It's able to manipulate it's environment, causing items even the world to do it's bidding. It uses this ability to torment others in semi-insane glee.

[Deykari]

Few more ideas I have had:

An old war veteran Ogre Warrior. Now a pacifist in his old age, he basically tells old war stories to everyone who will listen (and people who won’t listen, too). He regularly moans about how things were different in his day.

Stone Giant Berserker of Nature religion who would be restrung to some sort of Boulder creature. His actual body is habitat to many creatures like insects, birds and other small animals that are always crawling about over him. He is unable to speak, but the creatures that live on him have a ‘mental link’ of sorts with him, and chirp, squeak and possibly speak on his behalf. All manner of wild and wonderful reasons could be invented as to why the animals are talking, before anyone says.

Something Grim Reefer and I once tried, and we failed miserably. A pair of Fire Giant Bards that have formed a band called Transient Decapitation. They travel Aabahran, one of them banging on a huge wardrum whilst they both scream lyrics to songs of a brand new genre - Aabahran-themed Death Metal. Aspiring to perform regularly all over Aabahran, playing gigs and concerts and getting huge mosh pits going (essentially would involve post-gig fighting). We even had a song to perform (which we did, to some pinned Dark-knight in the Miruvhor Sewers, and she agreed to be our groupie ), but the idea didn’t get off the ground.

Undead Berserker restrung to Abomination. Pre-app, the Human would be RPed as a polite, peaceful person, seemingly pacifist and very afraid of something. The application would be in the 3rd person, from the perspective of the chief of a sect of necromancers who see this Human as a perfect target for their experiments. The Human roleplays as if these Necromancers are basically making his life a misery by torturing him and the like, and he wants to get away from it all. Upon application acceptance, the transformation to Undead comes by way of the Necromancers telling him he will be free from the torture and torment after doing one more thing for them, in the form of . Little does he know that once he has finished , the Necromancers kill him, begin removing limbs and body parts and replacing them with the parts of other creatures, and then raising him as a mindless, shambling concoction of a wide variety of creatures, under the control of the Necromancers.

Dey

[The Wayward Knight]

How about a werebeast ranger completely unknowledgeable of his gift, as his parents were killed before they could reveal their true nature to him. He was raised by other family members, unaware of his 'gift'. At some time in his future, before he set out on his own, his home was burned down and his family killed by another relative, who was a cursed lycanthrope. The relative bit him during the ordeal, leaving an open wound that bleeds occasionally but never fully heals, and the boy flees civilization, becoming a ranger and living in solitude, fearing that he will be cursed with lycanthropy but still unaware of his werebeast nature which prevents the curse from taking hold within him. However, little things spark chain reactions at times within him (very specific things, like seeing a fire or being splattered with blood - they remind him of the night he fled) that cause him to come to the brink of transforming and insanity, and he either maintains his form, or he transforms violently, convinced either way that he is afflicted with an unusual form of the lycanthropic curse.

[Valsgarde]

Something Grim Reefer and I once tried, and we failed miserably. A pair of Fire Giant Bards that have formed a band called Transient Decapitation. They travel Aabahran, one of them banging on a huge wardrum whilst they both scream lyrics to songs of a brand new genre - Aabahran-themed Death Metal. Aspiring to perform regularly all over Aabahran, playing gigs and concerts and getting huge mosh pits going (essentially would involve post-gig fighting). We even had a song to perform (which we did, to some pinned Dark-knight in the Miruvhor Sewers, and she agreed to be our groupie ), but the idea didn’t get off the ground.

That was mine and Grim's idea and we talked about it on the phone laughingly for hours on multiple occasions, I just didn't take part in it in game. We have a musical project called Altar of Sirens with songs about FL, and we were going to go under the names of our characters. We were going to make a myspace, but you know. We're lazy, intoxicated, and probably beating women. Not enough time to make a myspace.

You Dey, were merely a fill-in for me on an idea that you had nothing to do with. To set the record straight.

*brandishes the recorded .mp3s as proof*

[The Wayward Knight]

I think all he said was that he and Grim tried it.