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Cast My NPCs

STARP_President

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One of the things we do in my campaign is assign an actor to 'play' important characters. This is useful because it provides a visual or personal frame of reference for players (and me) and it's also kinda fun. However, it's not always easy. Can the panel help me out here? I'm looking for actors to play the following people. My campaign is set aboard a sailing ship, just FYI.

1. The ship's third mate and the henchman of the captain. He comes from a middle-class background in a very male-dominated society. He's very much the strong, silent type and having never left his home island he's encountering a world very different from what he imagined. He is a half-elven Ranger.

2. The ship's resident gnome engineer. Think of your standard gnome tinkerer and combine him with Professor Frink from the Simpsons. White haired, bearded and slightly chubby, he is a Rock Gnome Expert. The actor that plays him does not need to be short - Lord of the Rings proved that one with a 6' human playing a dwarf.

3. A former but recurring crewman, who isa playwright and author and artist and lots of other things. He wrote a play that I based loosely on Shakespeare, for instance. The key element here is aristocracy - the character is a complete snob, upper-class twit stiff-arsed British type. He needs to be quite young though - no more than 30 or so. The character is a human Aristocrat.

4. Although they haven't appeared yet, I want actresses to play two of the gods who are fighting out their cosmic battle. One is the good goddess of magic, who needs to be a young, pretty, probably blonde woman but with a kind of mystical quality. Her evil opposite, the evil goddess of magic, needs to have a dark quality to her (think Dark Willow) as well as a 'I'll kick your arse back to Thursday' demeanour.

Can you folks help me out here? Thanks a bundle.
 

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shilsen said:
1. Viggo Mortensen
2. Ian Holm
3. Rupert Everett
4. Keira Knightley - good; Sigourney Weaver - evil

I agree with everything except for #4...

Good = Mandy Moore or Drew Barrymore
Evil = Helena Bonham Carter

Those would make for entertaining fights.
 

STARP_President said:
1. The ship's third mate and the henchman of the captain.

Jeremy Piven. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005315/

2. The ship's resident gnome engineer.

Wallace Shawn. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001728/ & http://www.thequarter.org/issue12/page05.php

3. A former but recurring crewman, who isa playwright and author and artist and lots of other things.

Hugh Grant. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000424/

4. Although they haven't appeared yet, I want actresses to play two of the gods who are fighting out their cosmic battle.

Good goddess:

Galadriel. Duh. (Okay, it's really Cate Blanchett: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000949/) ;)

Evil goddess:

Catherine Zeta Jones? In Chicago style?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001876/

EDIT: Alternatively, Lindsay Lohan could fill in for either goddess role if you need someone younger ... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517820/
 
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STARP_President

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Some good suggestions. Please keep them coming. Alas, Keira Knightly, Kate Beckinsale and Wallace Shawn have already been cast in other roles. I like all the suggestions so far, however.
 

Good Goddess: Christina Ricci, circa Sleepy Hollow

sleepyhollow.jpg


Evil Goddess: Asia Argento, daughter of fiendish italian director Dario Argento (can't beat that pedigree for nasty!)

asia_argento.jpg
 

AFGNCAAP

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STARP_President said:
One of the things we do in my campaign is assign an actor to 'play' important characters. This is useful because it provides a visual or personal frame of reference for players (and me) and it's also kinda fun. However, it's not always easy. Can the panel help me out here? I'm looking for actors to play the following people. My campaign is set aboard a sailing ship, just FYI.

See what I can do. If it winds up w/ a lot of people selecting actors that you're already using, then you may want to list who you're using (& for what role).

STARP_President said:
1. The ship's third mate and the henchman of the captain. He comes from a middle-class background in a very male-dominated society. He's very much the strong, silent type and having never left his home island he's encountering a world very different from what he imagined. He is a half-elven Ranger.

Hmm. Bit difficult to guess. Christian Bale, perhaps? Figure that he'd have a youthful-enough look for a half-elf, & would have enough presence without needing to talk.

STARP_President said:
2. The ship's resident gnome engineer. Think of your standard gnome tinkerer and combine him with Professor Frink from the Simpsons. White haired, bearded and slightly chubby, he is a Rock Gnome Expert. The actor that plays him does not need to be short - Lord of the Rings proved that one with a 6' human playing a dwarf.

Why not a Python? I could see Terry Jones in the particular role. The "Frink"-ness of the character seems like a comedic actor would be a good fit. Robbie Coltrane may work as well, but he may be a bit too heavy set for the way you described.

STARP_President said:
3. A former but recurring crewman, who isa playwright and author and artist and lots of other things. He wrote a play that I based loosely on Shakespeare, for instance. The key element here is aristocracy - the character is a complete snob, upper-class twit stiff-arsed British type. He needs to be quite young though - no more than 30 or so. The character is a human Aristocrat.

Joseph Fiennes. He's played Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, & he's in the new Merchant of Venice film.

STARP_President said:
4. Although they haven't appeared yet, I want actresses to play two of the gods who are fighting out their cosmic battle. One is the good goddess of magic, who needs to be a young, pretty, probably blonde woman but with a kind of mystical quality. Her evil opposite, the evil goddess of magic, needs to have a dark quality to her (think Dark Willow) as well as a 'I'll kick your arse back to Thursday' demeanour.

Good goddess: Charlize Theron, Kate Winslet, or Claire Danes.

Evil goddess: Helena Bonham Carter on Rachel Weiss; heck, even Kelly Osborne if you wanna push that "bad girl" theme.
 


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