Which of these sterotypical PCs have appeared the most in your campaigns?

[reiella]

Almost all NPCs in my campaign.

Krush, the Half-Orc Barbarian fits the Dumb Half-Orc template quite well . Has a trouble with bleeding profusely when he rages, a condition he tends to remedy afterwards by drinking more ale to replace the lost alcholol. Sadly, he has since lost one of his eyes (but it's replaced thanks to another stereotype). Note, may also qualify for the Conan-wannabe .

The Tinkering Gnomes are the standard gnomes in my campaign.

The Wanderer fits the Brooding Loner template rather nicely too. Attempting to recover from near complete amnesia is also quite the stereotype .

 

[frankthedm]

Dumb half orc takes the top for my group, two specific players are forever associated with that stereotype. Our group calls him 'Krunk'

I played that dwarf before

I don't like role playing elves as a pc.

I played a 'teflon billy' pyromancer [ see PC-cide thread]

Is the 'Innsmouth look" a stereotype? I played 2 of those already. First was a fighter, later a cleric of a CN facet of Yog-sothoth.

No gnomes in my campaign, but the dwarf kingdom of rockhome does have a research and development department. They are Always looking for out-of-towners who need work. Pay includes Living and final expences.

 

[Oni]

I've seen the gruff dwarven fighter, the self-rightious paladin, the loner and the vegen druid someone else mentioned. Oh wait, I just picked up a elven archer in the game I DM.

Personally I never played any of the ones listed. Though the elven archer and the good aligned drow have caught my interest (actually I like the idea of normally evil creatures trying to be good for some reason) though I doubt I'll have an opportunity to put the second latter into action.

 

[s/LaSH]

People who read my webcomic will be familiar with the Brooding Loner in the form of Lorenzo, although he doesn't really brood; he just takes pleasure in scaring people with his spooky cloak.

Later on, things get angstier... but with good reason.

That's about it, really. We may come close to the stereotypes, but don't ever quite meet 'em.

 

[Li Shenron]

The Gruff Dwarven Fighter:
The Conan-wannabe Womanizing Barbarian:
The Brooding Loner:
The Good-Aligned Drow:
The Dumb Half-Orc:
The Nimble Elven Archer:
The Self-Righteous Paladin:
The Kleptomanical Halfling Thief:
The Tinkering Gnome:
The Pacifistic Vegan Druid: .

OMG! Seen basically ALL except the Tinkering Gnome (gnomes being the least popular race in the games I played).

Also the last one I haven't seen in one single PC, but very populars have been (separately) the Vegan Druid who never fights animals, and the Pacifistic _insert any class_ who "doesnt want to fight at all until first time she smashes her first goblin skull and taste its blood".

I have to say that these stereotypes don't annoy me too much at the end, unless they are extremely over the edge. I am more annoyed by stereotypical Evil characters, that for some reason must always be played as incredibly savage and totally unredeemable perverts of extreme bloodlust.

 

[masque]

I have one player who has a thing for drow with wings. "Chaotic neutral" (read: fishmalk) drow who plays the really nasty tricks on party members, but can't take it when they play tricks back, or just get fed up with it and fireball her. If I get her away from the drow with wings, she's my best roleplayer.

In a game of D&D that closely resembled TOON (or Slayers), I had an angsty brooder monk who wandered off to meditate all the time. I mean, whenever they were in town, he'd wander off _to the slums_ and meditate (not, heaven forbid, even sit in his inn room and meditate). I admit it probably wasn't his style of game, though he was warned about the silly level.

Other than that, my games have been pretty much free of stereotypes.

 

[tauton_ikhnos]

The Self-Righteous Paladin:
The Kleptomanical Halfling Thief:
The Tinkering Gnome:
The Pacifistic Vegan Druid:

Gruff Dwarf - Mishal of Gretchen Fort, in current campaign, is gruff dwarven wizard with CON 20, Toughness (+1 hp/lvl version). He has +2 hp over my CON 12 fighter. Tough dwarves just rock.

Good Li'l Drow - I played a male good drow who liked to dance naked. Does that count? An urban rogue who pole danced, got caught in adventure because was immune to human-only disease, recruited as nurse in plague.

Nimble Elf - Swiftwater Green, current campaign, is elf druid archer. Very cool, even if stereotyped.

The others, I don't think so. Conan types usually play more to the Conan style than the block of bricks; Brooding Loners usually booted early on; Lovably Stupid Orcs usually put into homes; Lawful Stupid Paladins usually avoided (we have paladin, but very different); Kender got played in an all-thieves campaign, otherwise no; Tinker Gnomes are Krynn-specific, never seen 'em elsewhere; and we've never played druids like that - our druids bloody and animalistic, our sweet-faced elf archer druid drinks blood of prey after hunt, for example.

 

[Ace]

EDIT: This was originally going to be a poll, but I screwed up and missed the poll options and definitions of the types. So, here are the definitions anyway...

The Gruff Dwarven Fighter: Wears heavy armor, fights with an axe, and has enough hit points that he'd barely feel a thing if a dump truck ran into him. When not fighting, he's usually drinking ale or making unflattering remarks about elves.


The Brooding Loner: Popular among anime fans, the brooding loner rarely talks. If anybody asks him what's wrong, he won't tell them. His fashion sense usually involve large, concealing cloaks that make them look all cool and mysterious. When the party stops at a tavern, the brooding loner usually looks for a dark corner to sit alone in. This character has a tragic past, which usually means that his family or lover was killed by something (usually orcs).

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We get these guys from time to time

The Dwarf always seems to have a Scottish accent. I am still working on getting the players to do a German accent (for Mountain dwarves) or Hungarian one for Forest/Plains and City Dwarves --No Elf insulting though.

Brooding Loners are distressingly common -- My best player plays them a lot -- even I do upon occasion

As for the others

Elves IMC are dangerous ECL +3 encounters not greatlyTolkien like. They aren't usually played as PC's either. Drow are even scarier -- Although I did have a half drow in a game once. I think it was before Drizzt was really popular too

I have never seen a halfling or a gnome IMC -- anyway while the races are allowed no one wants to play them. Kender are not allowed

We did have a Paladin-- meek and innofensive until he had no other choice but to fight -- then he was all Darth Maul with a doublesword -- Took out a Dozen Orc Cavalry in 2 rounds (they were in the Orc region at the time)

-- Half Orcs don't exist, the interbreeding isn't possible. Anyway IMC The slaughterific monster bit is handled by Goblins -- or worse the dreaded Rhyming Goblins -- Orcs are limited to one Geographic area


The last Druid we had was a crazy old Witch type (like that Character in Attila) and the only Hulking Barbarians we had were played for comic effect in a silly game (We are Hanz and Franz and we are here to pump up little girly men)

 

[Wippit Guud]

Current characters:

The Weakling Diplomat: 8 str, 7 dex, but an 18 cha, baby! The poor kid that got picked on during his youth, and somehow ended up in a political marriage and is heir to the lordhsip of his area.

The Gnomish Practival-Joking Illusionist: Yeah, ok, so sometimes party members have flaming hair or geen faces or giant pictures of the bard and the paladin making out appear in the sky. What are you going to do? I have more HP than the fighter, and I can fly!

 

[kirinke]

Aenilaen (Angel, Angela) Sorne. Female High elf. Ranger (Archer). 18 str, 16 dex, the rest 10's.

most of her family are spell-casters, she's the only brick. And she's the first born daughter of an elvish duke (if such exist). Poor kid.... Can you imagine what her parents thought when she decided to become a Ranger?