Conan or Conan O'Brien?

[alsih2o]

When creating a PC do oyu tend towards playing into the stereotype for that role or away from it?

Do you play Conan; all muscle this his big sword and "KILL!" attitude or Conan O'Brien, the skinny wise cracking fighter who like shortswords and whips?

 

[Crothian]

more against type, but still in type. My fighter is a dwarf, good con and strength, but also a good intellegence. Int was the second highest ability score till modifiers set in. He is a smart fighter that passes him self off as a more typical dwarven fighter.

 

[Arnwyn]

My group and I are really big on stereotypes.

So for us, it's cliches and caricatures all the way.

 

[Henry]

I do BOTH! It depends on the mood I'm in when I make the PC. The fighter I played for a friend's low-magic game is a combo of Conan and Jethro Bodine.

 

[MetalBard]

I'll usually have a stereotype in mind while trying to come up with the character, but when I sit down to create the character, I try to re-imagine the stereotype from a different perspective.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I mix, while I will tend to build a stereotype with stats I will try to be different with skills and PrCs.

 

[MonsterMash]

OD&D(1974)..... You know the rest!

 

[shilsen]

I just go with whatever idea interest me at the time, which will sometimes fit a stereotype and sometimes not.

 

[Mercule]

I mix it up. My most common MO, though, is to find a stereotype/archetype and turn one peace on its ear. I guess it lets me feel like I'm using an archetype and not a stereotype.

Best example: I wanted to play a Hermetic in a M:tA game. I had noticed that pretty much all the other players tended to play middle-class white characters -- just like all the players were in real life. Running with that, I turned the Hermetic into a black, ghetto-born drug dealer. The fun part was figuring out why he was also an intellectual.

Sometimes, though, I will build a character around a single concept, like the pacifist I played a few years back. Or the transmuter who had a hard time differenciating sentient creatures from inanimate objects.

Other times, a personality just forms in my mind and I build the rest of the character around it without really factoring in stereotypes in any way. Those are the rare gems, though.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

My character creation is generally informed by the stereotypes, but deviates just a little. I may take a stereotype of a gruff dwarven fighter, but make him mute. Or play an arrogant elven wizard, but add more than a touch of cowardice to him.

So, I would say that I play Conan, by Crom!