Conan or Conan O'Brien?

[Kanegrundar]

I tend to mix it up a little. I'll play the hulking barbarian or the bookish wizard or I'll play the something like the gnome fighter with a foul-mouth and seriousness that a dwarf would be impressed with.

I guess it all depends on my mood when I'm rolling up the character.

Kane

 

[AIM-54]

Depends on what I feel like playing, plus what I roll, generally. I like to play against stereotypes (halfling warriors, weak as dirt half-orc mages), but have, just as often played up to them as well (dwarven clerics, dumb half-orc monks), with a little tweak here and there.

 

[Ibram]

I'll play all sorts... smash hungry half-orcs to thieving dwarves.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I like variety. Archetypes are good in the right game, but it's also easy for them to become stale.

 

[Tonguez]

You know Conan of the books was smart, stealthy and dextrous (as well as being muscled and swordweilding). He was more swashbuckler than tank...

 

[TheAuldGrump]

My first long term character was a wizard with a higher strength (18/74) than intelligence (16). One of the players had a tendency to make comments about the guy in a dress...

The Auld Grump

 

[Dracomeander]

I tend to mix it up. I prefer to play against the stereotype, but every once in while it's fun to dust off the old stereotype for a one shot adventure.

 

[Immak Antunel]

O'Brien uses whips? Kinky...

Um, I mean, I alternate between stereotypical and unusual. First character ever made was a sickly dwarven necromancer (never got to play that one). First ever played was a pretty standard elven mage. Now, the NPCs I make up, those can get really crazy. But even then, sometimes not.

I figure, it's a verisimilitude thing. Stereotypes are often there for a reason, but they are by no means omnipresent.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Thinking it over... A. Conan Doyle.

The Auld Grump

 

[Frostmarrow]

I like the stereotype so I play into it. I always add a little something, though. Something that sometimes, in my group, becomes a new trait of the race. For example I played a dwarven thief once, in a greedy and matter-of-factly way. Something to be expected. I added the twist of always wearing a bag over my head when sleeping.

He said his darkvision made it hard for him to sleep otherwise. (Illogical, yes). The idea stuck with my group so nowadays dwarves always keep a head-bag in their pack for sleeping purposes!