Strange characters

[James Heard]

I tend to have characters who are much more strange in their roleplaying aspects than their mechanics. Mechanically I subscribe to the KISS principle for gaming. I suppose if I had to pick one though, it would be the Epic character I created for a PbP game here on ENWorld I dropped out of. Epic characters are pretty strange by their very nature I think.

 

[Shemeska]

Campaign: Half lupinal arcanaloth (or half arcanaloth lupinal if you want to view it that way)

We sort of viewed it this way:

"Daddy? Why do I have the sudden urge to horribly kill someone and then feel guilty about it?"

A'kin the friendly fiend glanced down at his kid and smiled.

"That's because you're insane."

"Oh, alright then. I love you daddy."

"Love you too."


In a oneshot:

A free willed cranium rat hive, formerly in thrall to Maanzecorian, gone rogue following that deity's death at the hand of Orcus/Tenebrous. Damn that was amusing to see the reactions of the other players when they realized it wasn't just 1 rat, but a hive.

 

[Clueless]

The looks on their faces - muahahaha *squeak!* And then when they realized I had an invisibilty spell that covered *all* of me - an invisible psionic swarm of cranium rats....

Let's see - I think the cranium rat hive is wierdest for what I've *played*. Seen played? Hm. That's a little harder, since most of my GMs kept a close eye on character creation. I think I'm gonna have to give props to half dragon, half celestial, half elf. Not even he knew how *that* mix came about.

 

[STARP_JVP]

Half-dragon warmage. Called himself a giant though, to confuse the dumb paladin. Died.

 

[Caliban]

Half-Orc who was raised by a village of halflings.

He was convinced that he was giant when he left the village.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

I Hate Goliaths (Especially Feral Undead Ones)

We had some screwball player use a feral Goliath Necropolitan cohort; needless to say ... this guy didn't last long at our table ....

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

I've played my share of vegepygmies in 2e. Even played an umber hulk fighter/thief once. Oh, and I'm the only person I know who ever used the dual-class rules.

In 3e, my weirdest character would have to be the Troll Rogue/Assassin whose natural attacks were adamantine +3 vorpal because of some "tinkering" by the Illithids. Did I mention he had an Int of 17 from eating his captors, and that he removed a psionic control chip by simply tearing off his own head? (He reimplanted the adamantine himself, with the help of a xixchil contact.)

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

In 3.0, one player built a minotaur fighter-sorceror, who twin weilded medium sized falchions. It was very suboptimal, but the dice loved him... He'd defy the probabilities and land strings of crits on any BBEG he got near. Very bad mechanics but fun!