What character from a novel would you most want to play?

[Terraism]

Hmm... let's see.

1. Walker Boh - Someone mentioned Allanon; he was cool, but in a vague and distant (and too perfect) way. Walker didn't want to be what he needed to be. And he's amazing, even with one hand. And a cat. He's just always been one of my favorite reluctant heroes.
2. Schmendrik the Magician - of Peater Beagle's masterpiece The Last Unicorn. The bumbling magician that proves able to do something no other could do. And lived a couple hundred years as a wanderer, to boot.
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   I guess that's about it.

 

[Waylander the Slayer]

Is'nt it obvious??lol

Waylander - Because he feels so real and is someone who has both darkness and light within him and is heroic in his own sense.

Gerald Terrant - From the C.S Friedman books - just an amazign character with multiple facets.

fitzChivalry - from the Robbin Hobb Assassin series - who does'nt like a character who gets screwed all the time??

 

[ergeheilalt]

Fav Character to Play

Number one choice would be Pug from the Riftwar/Serpent war books. There is always the kick-ass-edness of Sparhawk, kickin butt and takin' names all over the world. Zedd from the sword of truth books would definitely be cool ... the kind of crazy old coot I aspire to be . James Eckart from the Dragon and the .... books would be fun as well.

 

[Knuckels the VI]

the characters that i would love to play would have be Rand, Mat, Raistlin, Merlin, Ender, Belgarath, silk, Barrak (the guy tha turns into the bear from the Belgariad), and last but not least the Dragon or Grendel (Both for the book Grendel by John Gardner)

 

[Numion]

I'd play Elminster.. or maybe Drizzt, because I hate to lose.

 

[jemkym]

This One is Easy

Jon Shannow from David Gemmell's Jerusalem Man/Sipstrassi series. I admit it, I feel so sorry for him :-(((.

Or Arutha from the Riftwar Saga. I think there was a sentence in Magician that read something like 'The people respected Arutha, but didn't love him. They loved Liam.' Or something like that.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

-Rincewind: The only Wizard to screw up so much he does everything right.

-Munstrum Ridcully: Only one thing to say... "Darn it all to heck!"

-DEATH: Oh, c'mon. Pass Without Trace and speak in permanent CAPS LOCK? Who could pass that down??


All from Terry Pratchett's Discworld of course.

 

[Jolly Giant]

Roland, from The Gunslinger books by Stephen King.

Lone hero with the guns, cleaning up the multiverse....

I kept reading all the posts, thinking "Is it really possible that nobody's mentioned the Gunslinger?!?" But, there he was. He gets my vote!

First runner-up: Arthur Dent, iconic hitch-hiker!

 

[takyris]

Out of sheer egotism, I will say that I would most like to play the protagonist of a novel I wrote. Said novel is currently winging its way through the mail toward an agent who's expressed an interest in it, and if someday said novel actually hits the shelves, I'll be pimping it like there's no tomorrow.

In d20 Modern rules, he'd be a Smart Hero/Mage with a cane-sword and a bunch of feats to make himself a bit better with it. In D&D rules, he'd be a Bard, or Wizard/Duelist, or something equally counterproductive.

-Tacky

 

[Black Omega]

I agree on Morrolan e'Drien. Alot of history and backstory there never touched. Especially that time out East.

The Farscape crew is good for an example of a bunch of chaotics trying to work together.