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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tolen Mar" data-source="post: 2497443" data-attributes="member: 1295">Ah, ye olde favorite PC's thread.  Let's see what I can dig up.1. Corben Wayne.  The most munchkin RIFTS character I ever made.  I had the first two sourcebooks, and the DM of the time decided I could therefore build a robot PC if I so wanted.  I did, so I'd be as different as possible from the rest of the group.  Corben was an Archie 3 experiment.  Completely human in intellect, advanced bionics to look as human as possible, sent out into the world to see how well he fit in with humanity at large.In short, he didnt.He loved to fight.  This guy was the one who would attack the guy the PC were talking to just because he wouldnt sit there and wait for the discussion to end.  The thing is, he was good at it.  Better than all the others in fact.  He carried a pair of combat shotguns, one in each hand, stocks and barrels cut down.  His forearms carried a pair of vibro-blades.  His favorite attack was to use the jump jets in his shoes to loft up over his target, and death from above with the shotguns before landing on his target (needless to say as a combat capable bot, he wasnt the lightest thing to drop in).Ah me...what you can't do in an environment of unrestrained munchkinism.2. Sir Eglemore.  No doubt I've mentioned him before here on the boards.  What surprises me is how no one ever catches the source of the name.*  If they do, they'll see right away why he is what he is.  Sir Eglemore is an ex-dragonslayer.  I dont mean he retired, I mean he died fighting a dragon.  Said dragon then animated his corpse to serve as a guardian of the hoard.  He still was the same, except undead, but bound by the magic of the place and could never leave.  A hundred years later, he meets this group of adventurers looking for the dragons lair.  At first he does his guard bit, but then slowly comes to realize that the magic holding him in place was gone.  Turns out the dragon had been killed some time ago.  So he enjoys his newfound freedom, and joins the would be lair robbers.He was fun to play because after a hundred years of undead guardianship, there wasnt much left but his bones and suit of armor.  He would go everywhere in full plate, and refuse to open his visor, even when in polite company.  We had fun with it.  At one point we were fighting on the castle wall, and he got pushed off.  So he shattered into pieces at the bottom until he could 'pull himself together' again.  He also had no trouble playing dead on the battlefield (and did, once).3. Toog of the Shieldbreaker Clan, Follower of Sune Firehair.  I was playing a gnome thief in a forgotten realms game my friend was running, a real cowardly type with zero combat skills.  He didnt last long, got killed by some undead in a pit.  While I was trying to decide what to roll up as a replacement, my DM came to me and offered me this idea.  He handed me a novel to read (I forget the name of it), and asked me if I'd want to play a character based on the one in the novel.  I started reading, liked what I saw, though I was unsure if I would be able to pull it off for long.  Anyway Toog was born, naked and unarmed.  He was trapped in a tower and freed by the rest of the PC's.  He then proceeded to find a sword (a Claymore), a bit of cloth for his nether regions, and acted as party tank, thug, and firghtening force.What was Toog you ask?  Simple.  He was an Ogre fighter, with the barbarian kit.  Big, ugly and slow.  The claymore he found was the only weapon of a size he could wield (and he later smashed it to pieces on a stone golem).  What made him more than just an ogre was when he found out from the cleric about the goddess of love and beauty, Sune Firehair, he decided to dedicate his life to her.  He felt that if he performed anough good deeds in her name, she would one day reward him with a handsome face (He had no illusions as to how ugly he was).Imagine about five years later, when I saw the trailers for Shrek.  I nearly bought a shrek doll to use as Toog.  Then it got even more fun when Shrek 2 came out and he became handsome!When 3E came out, I restatted him as a barbarian, enjoying the new rage abilities.  And when the Epic Level Handbook came out, I advanced him to a level somewhere near 40 (I cant remember exactly right now).  I made him a pit fighter, gave him a green dire tiger mount, and now he owns his own fighting arena.  I gave him a lance (sized appropriately), but never got a chance to use it.  About Sune...well, lets say he's grown used to his appearance and no longer cares if she notices or not.* Go on guess!</blockquote>

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