Aura
Explorer
This. People get too wrapped up in a name. The Inquisitor is simply the skullduggery agent for the church. There is no more onus to be serious than any other member of the religion in question.
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Pathfinder 1E Do Inquisitors need to be so serious?
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This. People get too wrapped up in a name. The Inquisitor is simply the skullduggery agent for the church. There is no more onus to be serious than any other member of the religion in question.
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
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One of Inquisitor Glokta's assistants in the First Law trilogy by Joe Ambercrombie has a tendency to make jokes. But then, Abercrombie's characters are rarely two-dimensional, and this dark sense of humour, and the timing of the jokes, helps to flesh out both the assistant and Glokta himself.
CrusaderX
First Post
I'm thinking an Inquisitor loosely based on the comic character Deadpool could be alot of fun. Deadpool will frequently "talk" to a voice inside of his head. In fantasy RPG terms, maybe the voice inside of this character's head is the voice of his god? Is the voice inside of his head really the voice of his god, or is the character just crazy? Who's to say?
Now I wouldn't base this character 100% on Deadpool. You don't have to be quite as looney and manic as Deadpool, and the humor can be toned down, since DP is VERY over the top to the point of being extremely cartoonish. You don't have to play your character at anywhere near that level of lunacy. But DP does lots of grim things while not being very serious. So using him as a rough inspiration while still making your character fit your world and campaign could be interesting.
Now I wouldn't base this character 100% on Deadpool. You don't have to be quite as looney and manic as Deadpool, and the humor can be toned down, since DP is VERY over the top to the point of being extremely cartoonish. You don't have to play your character at anywhere near that level of lunacy. But DP does lots of grim things while not being very serious. So using him as a rough inspiration while still making your character fit your world and campaign could be interesting.
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Voadam
Legend
Think of him as a dwarven Porthos from the Three Musketeers. Gregarious, loves to eat, drink, and boast while doing his duty as a noble swashbuckler in military service to the crown (Cayden). That works for an inquisitor of the CG god of getting blackout drunk and doing amazing things on the spur of the moment without thinking it through.
Jester David
Hero
For a non-serious inquisitor I can see a couple ways.
You can just go light and go-lucky, the eternal optimist who's just happy to be adventuring and doing the right thing,
Or you can go the serious character that is accidentally comic, such as Batman from th Brave and the Bold cartoon, where he's just turned up to 11.
Or Minsc. I can see him as an inquisitor. Especially in the recent Baldur's Gate comic.
You can just go light and go-lucky, the eternal optimist who's just happy to be adventuring and doing the right thing,
Or you can go the serious character that is accidentally comic, such as Batman from th Brave and the Bold cartoon, where he's just turned up to 11.
Or Minsc. I can see him as an inquisitor. Especially in the recent Baldur's Gate comic.
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