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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5951287" data-attributes="member: 64209"><p>Oh, and regarding Cardinal Thorn...any thoughts on fleshing out his character?</p><p> </p><p>I'm thinking that having him somewhat "representative of the genre", or as your players said, cliche, might be good in a way. Straying too much from the standard might focus more on him and less on the interesting pcs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some slight changes I'm making to him (or maybe they're additions): I'm "eviling up" the character Obadiah Stone from the first Iron Man movie (Being careful not to make this TOO obvious as the source of inspiration for my PCs). </p><p> </p><p>Because of his background as a jilted lover and inferior brother, I'm also casting him as a person of intense, but warped, emotional need. There are ALWAYS people around him (mostly slaves and the pcs, but also non-slave npcs on occasion-the other knot). </p><p> </p><p>In regard to the players, he's the Obadiah father figure. He's proud of them, he expects the world of them. He expects them to accomplish any task he sets for them (e.g. Make an arc reactor, now please.) Like a good father, he'll punish them if he must, but it is with a "this hurts me more than it hurts you" tone. He wants to be cared for, and since his past has shown that love cannot be encouraged...he's decided that love (non-sexual --He's beyond physical pleasures in his new "state".) must be taken. They WILL love and respect him as their mentor and father.</p><p> </p><p>When the players meet him, Tiadora will treat him as a military commander, but he'll have slaves in various states of servitude... one is kneeling on the floor and serving as his footrest, another is pathetically hugging his arm like it was a teddy bear, and another is engaged in a (wildly one-sided) game of chess with him (and is "punished" whenever Thorn takes a piece...elsewise they'd never learn).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I'm hoping to pull off "fatherly, domineering, congenial, affable man...the sort of man who signs up his son for little league and expects, then demands, that he always win, and win as mvp."</p><p> </p><p>Hope that helps. Any thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 5951287, member: 64209"] Oh, and regarding Cardinal Thorn...any thoughts on fleshing out his character? I'm thinking that having him somewhat "representative of the genre", or as your players said, cliche, might be good in a way. Straying too much from the standard might focus more on him and less on the interesting pcs. Some slight changes I'm making to him (or maybe they're additions): I'm "eviling up" the character Obadiah Stone from the first Iron Man movie (Being careful not to make this TOO obvious as the source of inspiration for my PCs). Because of his background as a jilted lover and inferior brother, I'm also casting him as a person of intense, but warped, emotional need. There are ALWAYS people around him (mostly slaves and the pcs, but also non-slave npcs on occasion-the other knot). In regard to the players, he's the Obadiah father figure. He's proud of them, he expects the world of them. He expects them to accomplish any task he sets for them (e.g. Make an arc reactor, now please.) Like a good father, he'll punish them if he must, but it is with a "this hurts me more than it hurts you" tone. He wants to be cared for, and since his past has shown that love cannot be encouraged...he's decided that love (non-sexual --He's beyond physical pleasures in his new "state".) must be taken. They WILL love and respect him as their mentor and father. When the players meet him, Tiadora will treat him as a military commander, but he'll have slaves in various states of servitude... one is kneeling on the floor and serving as his footrest, another is pathetically hugging his arm like it was a teddy bear, and another is engaged in a (wildly one-sided) game of chess with him (and is "punished" whenever Thorn takes a piece...elsewise they'd never learn). I'm hoping to pull off "fatherly, domineering, congenial, affable man...the sort of man who signs up his son for little league and expects, then demands, that he always win, and win as mvp." Hope that helps. Any thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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