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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luthien Greyspear" data-source="post: 2497927" data-attributes="member: 34334">Sir Eglemore was the dead knight rotting between Draco's bicuspids in the movie Dragonheart.  Sir Bowen pulled him loose during their humorous 'Mexican standoff'.As to my favorite characters (continuing the theme of three):1) Crudch the Ogre -- This was my theme for quite a while whenever I wanted to just play a fun character.  I 'ported this guy into every system I could manage -- several AD&D games (half-ogre fighter), Shadowrun (troll gang member), Elfquest (troll), and finally...Paranoia.  It was in this last campaign that he really shined.  You see, Crudch was dumb.  REALLY dumb.  His intelligence in most games I played him was a 4 (except Shadowrun, where it was a 1).  He was also strong and insanely loyal to anyone who was nice to him.  Well, in Paranoia, the first entity to ever be nice to him was the Computer, who thanked him for registering his mutation so loyally and honestly.  (His mutation?  He had two.  The first (registered) was that he was 9 1/2 feet tall, of a slightly olive-drab complexion, and could act as a forklift if necessary.  The second was Machine Empathy, which Crudch legitimately couldn't register because he was SO stupid he didn't realize he had it.)  We started that campaign as typical Red Troubleshooters, and I managed to get Crudch all the way up to Blue before he lost his first clone.  That's right, BLUE.  We lost dozens of team leaders, of course, but not Crudch.  He was too big to really hurt without the attacker dying in the blast radius, and he was able to intimidate almost anybody.  He had a backpack full of bricks that he would carry around (about 40 of them), and whenever anyone needed to be interrogated, he would just hold a brick in front of them and crush it to powder.  Man, he was a blast to play.2) Spider -- Dubbed by my entire gaming group as the most dangerous Shadowrun character they had ever seen.  He was a former Aztechnology Phys-Ad company man that had gotten captured by Ares Macrotech and subjected to intense, military-grade wetware and bioware implantation.  Needless to say, having your Essence (and therefore, your Magical ability) dropped to nearly zero overnight (not really, but it seemed that way to the character, as they kept him in a drug-induced coma the entire time) drove him right around the bend.  His backstory had him literally killing the entire medical team and escaping into the Underground in Seattle.  (What can I say?  I had just finished the Weapon X series in Marvel Comics Presents...)  He was loony as a jaybird, and as dangerous as a Banshee Hovertank.  He once became convinced that he would be reincarnated as a squirrel, after the shaman in the party tried (and failed) to talk to him about the consequences of his actions.  So, in his spare time, he prowled the parks of Seattle, KILLING ALL THE SQUIRRELS.  Why?  Well, if he was gonna come back as a squirrel, he sure wouldn't want it to be in Seattle.  There's too many maniacs with guns running around killing squirrels...The best session I ever had with him was when we were on the run from a ninja who had targeted us as his next hit.  We were on a train, and we discovered the ninja and his cronies were in the luxury car planning to take us out before we reached Chicago.  So, we attached ourselves to the undercarriage of the train, crawled (upside-down) all the way to the far end of his car, and then came up behind his cronies.  After taking out the heavy gunner on the roof, my character got shot 7 or 8 times by this guy with a Narcoject rifle; basically, enough tranquilizer to drop a rhino (or two).  After I staged the last dart down to no effect (again), the DM demanded to know how the hell I was still standing.  I just looked at him and said, "I got a Beta-grade Blood Filter 10.  Ain't nothing getting through that."  Spider was my power-gaming peak.3) Luthien Greyspear -- Ah, my longest lived character.  He was the character I played in the best campaign I've ever played in.  He started out as a semi-suicidal, self-loathing runaway slave, who had murdered for his freedom, only to find his home had been destroyed by the father he never knew, who turned out to be one of the most evil necromancers anywhere.  Luthien became a necromancer himself, vowing to fight his father with his own tools, and to kill all necromancers everywhere.  Including, eventually, himself.  He was a loyal worshipper of Arawn, the judge of the dead, and felt that his very existence was anathema to his faith.  It took a lot of coaxing on the part of the party (specifically, the priestess of Arawn), but Luthien grew into a very stable person.  He got married, had children, and saved the world once or twice.  He's the only character I've ever been able to properly retire, and the character I'm most proud to have played.</blockquote>

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