I'm sorry, your character idea is too awful.

[Arashi Ravenblade]

If a player wants to do something strange with a personality I warn them the others might just kill him.
Had one player who's character was a coward and would run, the Archer in the group planted one between his shoulder blades and dropped him in one shot.

 

[Mallus]

- Oh, and pretty much everything in Mallus' list

You don't know what you're missing!

Especially w/Joseirus... last session he stabbed a flying super-Nazi with the Spear of Longinus in an aerial battle over 1944 Berlin.

 

[BluWolf]

Nothing better than watching a tavern FULL of brooding a$$ holes leering from beneath their cowls.

Makes for great roleplaying sessions and spontaneous occurances of wandering damage.

 

[mattdm]

Also in college a co-workers was telling me about his AD&D characater. A two-headed Elven Vampire Wizard (See having two heads he could cast two spells a round). I just looked at him, to which he replied "Its not stupid". Based on that, I never invited him to my game.

How about "okay, but of course you'll need twice as much XP per level".

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Let's see, my most recent characters include...

... a Dragonborn paladin who marks his foes with his own semi-divine semen (Sir Yatagan Fracas).

... a ninja-like merchant/priest armed with a lethal pointed stick (Meritage Shiraz).

... a mystical martial artist and Communist apparatchik in the employ of the People's Revolutionary Army of Zu Mountain (Cloud Strike).

... and the 14-year old Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling, from preset-day East L.A. (Joseirus).

So as you can see, DM's/GM's usually indulge me when it comes to playing strange characters. I'm lucky in that regard, and in return, I do my best to indulge my players when I'm running the show.

Except for the first one, I'd probably let any of those fly (I've loved your accounts of Joesirus for some time, BTW).

For the most part, I've had some fairly indulgent DMs that have allowed me to play some fun PCs.

- a Drow Ftr/Th/Mu who "thought" she was an android from an alternative dimension who had been programmed to be an NPC Drow F/T/M in a competitive LARP (a la Niven & Barnes' Dream Park novels) who had fallen through a dimensional rift...sort of C-3PO in Drow-drag. The reality? We'll never know- the campaign died before that question was answered.

- the über-hawt, über-slutty albino biker-chick "Street-Samurai" with a .50cal automatic and a big, black vibrosword in a cyberpunk RPG. Yes, she was an incarnation of the Eternal Champion- part Elric, part Jerry Cornelius, etc.

- Major Mosquito, a PI who was "embraced" by a powerful Brujah, but who lost his sanity, becoming as nutty as a Malkavian. His shattered mind put together the facts of his incredible strength, speed and resistance to damage and figured out he had become a super-hero. Unfortunately for everyone around him, the hero he modeled himself after was The Tick.

Part of why I get indulged is that I never abuse the privilege- the PCs are always true to their concept, and I don't use them to break the game (thereby ruining someone else's fun).

 

[Roman]

I wouldn't allow Evil PCs (unless the circumstances were exceptional, such as if I was running an evil campaign). I would probably allow, but definitely frown upon aimless PCs and various comic characters that will mostly serve to derail the game. On top of that, if a player came up with a particularly sickening, disgusting or objectionable concept, I might disallow that too.

 

[Andor]

HAHHAHA.

However, I have seriously considered Dwarven Bikers ala Hell's Angels, but couldn't think of a good fantasy equivalent of motorcycles.

Boars.

Dire Boars.

Fiendish Dire Dachshunds.

Bulettes.

Nightmares.

Black Uniorns.

Pink Unicorns.

 

[Rechan]

Boars.

Dire Boars.

I finally decided that chariots pulled by boars or hyenas might be appropriate.

 

[MichaelSomething]

That said, I'm torn between laughing myself senseless and wanting to hit MichaelSomething

Good, that's generally the result I'm looking for

The Sehanine I was referring to was from the 4e PHB FYI

I did suggest this to my DM and he was agaisnt the idea totally but I didn't really mind. A player can't expect to get away with everything. There are plenty of character concepts you can play that won't make your DM go "WHY GOD? WHY?!" Just suggesting it gave me some lulz so it did its job.

 

[Nai_Calus]

Starbuck II: Corellon, the Corellon Larethian of 1-3e anyway, is either male or female. Or both. Or neither. Same thing for most of the rest of the elven gods. Gotta love the Seldarine. XD

The Sehanine I was referring to was from the 4e PHB FYI

Ahh, ok, 4e Sehanine. The one who beat up Hanali and Erevan and took half their stuff. Gotcha. Makes sense. >D

If I ever DM I'm outlawing evil PCs, I think. If only because I've had such miserable experiences being on the opposite end of the Good-Evil axis from them. First one came in mid-campaign and should have known it would cause trouble, and then the character intro had him and the DM retconning my character who was already up back into his tent and back 'asleep'(Character tranced rather than slept, btw), so the new guy could cut my character with a poisoned blade by way of intro without having to move silently or me getting a listen check. I nearly quit over that alone, nevermind later clashes. (I rolled a natural 20 on my fort save against the poison, btw. Instant revenge.) That... I don't care how great your concept is. You're not going to be evil if anyone in the party is good. It doesn't make for good roleplay in either circumstance I've seen it in, it just makes for drama.

There should be some kind of test, also, for seeing if people actually know what 'Chaotic' means. >_>;

But yeah, no evil PCs unless everyone else is neutral at best. ...Even then probably not since I wouldn't really want to DM that. I want to be in a reasonably heroic game, not 'let's go poison/burn villages'.

Honestly it makes me not want to even try DMing, at least with my current group. Someone's always evil, and most are asocial jerks at best. >_>;

...Maybe I just need a new group that isn't mostly composed of people eight years younger than I am. >_> Most of these guys are 17-19, and I'm 25. I stopped wanting to be an Angsty Badass years ago.