From the thread This week in my game – the Dungeon of Avalon, Nazi vampires, and hailing to the king
Every PC and major NPC has to look like a famous person, usually an actor. This came about because of one of the players, Orenthal. In the first session, Orenthal tells me he’s having a hard time envisioning all the people his character is interacting with. He says:
“I read this sci-fi book where, in the future, police sketch artists don’t ask you to describe what a person looks like. They ask you what actor the person looked like. The mind responds to famous people’s faces, so they remember them better. So what actors do all these people look like?”
The idea was a hit with our group, and became a defining element of the game.
Scarpedin looks like Nicholas Cage. The other PCs resemble Don Cheadle, Billy Baldwin, Cheech Marin, Bruce Willis, and Emily Mortimer. The villains are led by a man who looks like Patrick Stewart. His five main henchmen look like Nicole Kidman, Charlie Murphy (Eddie Murphy’s brother), Jet Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the Chinese woman from The Transporter.
