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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6360498" data-attributes="member: 19675">I did that in a playtest for GURPS: Vampire the Masquerade.  However, I didn't play him as a Tick clone, but rather, as a Tick-like character who also was thoroughly tied to the city in which the campaign was set, and with a flavor & vibe that hewed more closely to a typical Vampire game than the character that inspired his creation.IOW, as weird as the PC was, I still took pains to make him fit..somehow.Herobizkit, I think the others are right in that social misfits who want to rule the world are serious PCs...with with serious flaws in their expectations.  In a sense, they're like a bunch of Goths who have dreams of being the homecoming court of their big, American inner city HS.  Sort of like Blackadder.As such, they should probably encounter all kinds of practical social barriers, despite combat successes.  No matter how they succeed on the battlefield, nobody will take them seriously....at least, not until there is clearly no other choice but to do exactly that.  Which IS the Ghostbusters narrative.  (Also, Who's the Man?, another good comedy.)* for those who know the game, Major Mosquito was a Brujah who was also crazier than a Malkavian.  And he was a vampire-hunter of sorts as well...</blockquote>