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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5684681" data-attributes="member: 2205">My groups almost never play without schticks.  Some of the most memorable schticks I've seen in games that I played for DMed:1) A hobgoblin rogue who desperately wanted to get his hands on his very own pirate ship by hook or crook.  As DM, I had no intention whatsoever of actually giving him one (to keep, anyway) but his single-minded obsession over the issue became a long-running joke.2) That same character had a "partner" who was a sleazy womanizer who was instantly obsessed with any even kinda sorta female NPC we came across, played by another player in the group.  In fact, they gradually worked it up so that the hobgoblin always screwed up the womanizer's attempts to score, and the womanizer always screwed up the hobgoblin con-man's attempts to pull off one of his schemes, thus explaining their constant failure at achieving their obssessive compulsive desires.  He always got all of them into trouble, though--most notably when he offered their "service" to a demon-princess, and got the party involved as agents in some demonic intrigue.  He later got killed by that same demon-princess for his cheek, but she liked him enough she brought him back and stuck him in the nearest convenient body around--that of Fast Times era Phoebe Cates (complete with removable bikini).  Seeing the character's raging womanizer schtick converted to being a raging womanizing man in the body of a hot chick was fun for a while.  When it wasn't anymore, he found a way to change back.3) Had an extremely tall, lanky fellow who couldn't grow a decent beard, but who for whatever reason decided that he identified with the dwarves.  Convinced that he was a dwarf mistakenly born into Ichabod Crane's body, he was also a sorcerer who charged into combat with an urgosh.4) A half-orc barbarian gal with a charisma of maybe 5 who had a girly desire to be attractive and sexy, but absolutely no idea how to do it.  She was in the same group as 1 and 2, and kept trying to hit on 2.  She never did get it why he seemed to chase after every skirt we crossed, but she never got lucky.  Eventually, she did find an NPC who fell head over heels in love with her.  Of course, he was one of the party's villains, and she was supposed to be "distracting" him while the rest of the party snuck around his manor house.  At first he was horrified by being hit on very aggressively by   a half-orc barbarian, but suddenly it all clicked for him and he was head-over-heels the rest of the way. They later recovered the villains papers and notes--instead of clues about all his plots, it was full of bad poetry written to the half-orc.5) That same half-orc gal had, as part of her back-story, that she realized her potential as a barbarian when her village was attacked by a patrol of hobgoblins.  Picking up her father's sword, she jumped into the fray, and nearly split her first hobgoblin completely open.  So, the next character concept I got from another player was a hobgoblin who had left the military... after being seriously injured on a raid on a half-orc village!  After realizing that this girl was the same one, he made a point of always trying to keep his massive scar hidden.  Finally, he decided he needed to come clean and tell her... so he decided that the best way to do so was to seduce her and then blurt it out... while en flagrante delicto.  I can't remember exactly how that ended, but I think that scene is the one that had the PCs all get involved in a massive pie fight.  He also fell hard for the NPC who looked like Phoebe Cates... who was killed after the party's ineptitude was unable to save her, only to have the womanizer get reincarnated in her body.  Come to think of it, that particular campaign probably had the best ensemble cast of PCs I've ever seen in my entire gaming career.  Holy moley, that was a fun campaign. 6) In a party full of scoundrels and ne'er-do-wells of roughly an average alignment of chaotic neutral, one guy shocked even everyone else with his callous evilness.  After killing a creature that had stolen the eyes from some poor NPC in an inn, instead of giving her back her eyes (a remove blindness spell along with the stolen eyes would return their eyesight and then some) he took them himself and replaced his own eyes with hers.  Although I think he may have allowed her to keep his old eyes at least.  Later, when they found an oracle who did her best work through anthropomancy, the rest of the party naturally pulled back and said, "No.  No way."  This PC snuck off in the dead of night, though, went to the slave market and bought the cheapest, weediest halfling he could find, and went and got their fortunes read, picking up a bunch of clues for moving the campaign forward.</blockquote>

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