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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brehobit" data-source="post: 4473923" data-attributes="member: 12032">Don't you know never to ask a roleplayer to talk about their characters? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />In the D&D game our party was assembled by a sponsor.  We were told to create "highly unusual" characters and we'd have quite a bit of freedom with the rule set.  The goal, of course, was to save the world (there had been a prophesy, which the DM made up when he saw our characters, about a group that would save the world.  He made it fit our "odd" 1st level characters.)  So we had a ranger who treated short range as long range and via-versa, a dwarf wizard (big deal in 2e), and my pacifist orc cleric/bard among others.  Over the course of about 20 sessions she killed one person and helped kill another (the one she held and the dwarf killed).  Undead/demons/devils/constructs didn't count.In Shadowrun my character, a Catholic Priest shaman, was a former "suit".   His homeless shelter was being forclosed on.  Whenever the run called for it, I played him rather than my psycho physical adept chick (the two hated each other and wouldn't go on runs together).  Any cult-based adventure as well as a few pure B&Es against "bad people" that made a lot of money were where he'd show. Plus he'd be the plot hook on occasion (street people are disappearing kind of thing).  Again, killing spirits was generally acceptable to him (viewed it as if killing a dog: something to be avoided, but not a mortal sin if justified).My 3e pacifist character never saw the light of a real game, but was based on the book of exulted deeds.  His motivation was to be the protection of "his" lands.  Not a pure pacifist (didn't have the peace feat) but preferred to be darn sure he was doing a good thing before he killed anyone.And yes I do play normal characters too.  My current two are 4e fighter who's fairly 3e paladin like (but not too much) and a 14-year old tech wiz (based of a character from PS238) for over the edge.  Believe me, for that game, she's normal.</blockquote>

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