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If I ever did I'd call her Miho.jerichothebard said:
And for the record, you get SoG DNA from the Shroud of Turin.
What's the Most Asinine Character Idea/Concept You've Dealt With?
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And for the record, you get SoG DNA from the Shroud of Turin.
Andor
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The one I cannot forget was during character generation for a homegrown point based system. One guy wanted to know how many points he could get for making a fighter with no thumbs.
It took an hour of arguing and a live combat demonstration with shinai to convince him it was not a viable concept.
This was the same guy whose character jumped out a third story window over a stone paved courtyard carrying the amazingly-life-like-statue-of-the-old-king-what-has-gone-missing-and-been-replaced-by-the-sorcerer. *ahem* So much for stone-to-flesh.
It took an hour of arguing and a live combat demonstration with shinai to convince him it was not a viable concept.
This was the same guy whose character jumped out a third story window over a stone paved courtyard carrying the amazingly-life-like-statue-of-the-old-king-what-has-gone-missing-and-been-replaced-by-the-sorcerer. *ahem* So much for stone-to-flesh.
One of my players in a 1Ed campaign introduced his hard-drinking, cross-dressing, homosexual winged folk (race from Dragon Magazine) Fighter-mage.
It wasn't that his PC was gay. I have no problem with that. It wasn't the cross-dressing, either (the PC illustration included mascara, eye-shadow, and a beauty mark).
It was that he played the PC as an over-the-top, campy, nymphomaniac/slut who hit on all the other PCs.
And the monsters.
This was a weeeeeeeeeeeee bit disruptive.
On the other hand, I'm occasionally guilty...
I was a playtester for a GURPS Vampire. I hate GURPS, but the game group I was in at the time were all buddies of the guys at SG. We had been playing a LOT of it, so I finally rebelled.
In a calculated effort to cut short the campaign, I created Major Mosquito- a powerful Brujah who, in life, had been a private detective. The process of being "brought over" had driven him insane. His powerful but now warped mind did the math: super strength + super speed+ nigh invulnerabilty = super hero. He used his "Crime Straw" to suck the blood of the guilty. His costume included chainmail and he toted a crossbow because of certain other bad guys he had encountered- and he got around town in his 1968, black Mach 1 Mustang...but patrolled the area (once he arrived) on his BMX bike with cards in the spokes (to get the "mosquito buzz" effect). The Brujah thought he was so crazy he had to be Malkavian...
The odd thing was, as outre as the character was (yes, based on the Tick), he actually formed a focal point for the campaign. With all the other PCs constantly manipulating him to take out "hard targets," it was almost like playing a Paladin.
It wasn't that his PC was gay. I have no problem with that. It wasn't the cross-dressing, either (the PC illustration included mascara, eye-shadow, and a beauty mark).
It was that he played the PC as an over-the-top, campy, nymphomaniac/slut who hit on all the other PCs.
And the monsters.
This was a weeeeeeeeeeeee bit disruptive.
On the other hand, I'm occasionally guilty...
I was a playtester for a GURPS Vampire. I hate GURPS, but the game group I was in at the time were all buddies of the guys at SG. We had been playing a LOT of it, so I finally rebelled.
In a calculated effort to cut short the campaign, I created Major Mosquito- a powerful Brujah who, in life, had been a private detective. The process of being "brought over" had driven him insane. His powerful but now warped mind did the math: super strength + super speed+ nigh invulnerabilty = super hero. He used his "Crime Straw" to suck the blood of the guilty. His costume included chainmail and he toted a crossbow because of certain other bad guys he had encountered- and he got around town in his 1968, black Mach 1 Mustang...but patrolled the area (once he arrived) on his BMX bike with cards in the spokes (to get the "mosquito buzz" effect). The Brujah thought he was so crazy he had to be Malkavian...
The odd thing was, as outre as the character was (yes, based on the Tick), he actually formed a focal point for the campaign. With all the other PCs constantly manipulating him to take out "hard targets," it was almost like playing a Paladin.
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Heh- I just read a short story in Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine about a world in which a company had cloned Jesus from the Shroud of Turin...and were putting them up for adoption.
Many families had SoGs, and most of them are just becoming teenagers at the time the story is set...
Many families had SoGs, and most of them are just becoming teenagers at the time the story is set...
Herobizkit
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Yeah, one of our boys made a SoG in a really old Marvel Super Heroes adventure.
He had the power to turn water into wine, heal all diseases and damage at a touch, and had the power to resurrect himself if he was killed... the fact that there was such a power in MSH to begin with started it all.
I also have a roster of Mystery Men-esque super heroes I really really really want to introduce, but it would never be the same without the players who were there when we thought them up. They've all been scattered...
He had the power to turn water into wine, heal all diseases and damage at a touch, and had the power to resurrect himself if he was killed... the fact that there was such a power in MSH to begin with started it all.
I also have a roster of Mystery Men-esque super heroes I really really really want to introduce, but it would never be the same without the players who were there when we thought them up. They've all been scattered...
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