Your unused character ideas?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Heheh...

The same Jules Vernian/H.G. Wellsian supers campaign that birthed the concept of Dr. Zeus also gave me Spring-Heeled Jack, a vigilante with a horned night-vision helmet (gold-tone metal with glowing red eyes) and a pneumatic harness that increased his leg and arm strength...a turn of the century fusion of Batman and Iron Man.

 

[Jhaelen]

The no-good sidekick of a professional tomb raider (think: Indiana Jones) who 'inherits' his boss's gear after said boss got killed in a death-trap. Basically, he'd try to pass himself off as his boss while learning about the tricks of the trade from the deceased's journals.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Nice- I always like "borrowed glory" type characters. Lots of angles to work with for role-playing.

 

[Piratecat]

Wood elf ne'er do well who started as a pirate before being trained by a captive as a monk. Now retired from piracy, he still takes advantage of all the acrobatic skill he learned reefing the sails when he adventures in land. His pirate captain considers him a traitor and wants him dead… and wants the treasure map he stole even more.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I actually have a few characters who had back stories of being a commoner tuned adventurer, and whose weapons of choice were based on their pre-wandering professions. For example, I always wanted to do a Dwarven dual-wielder of military picks. He went from being a miner to a warrior.

Similarly, I had a human female paladin who was over 6'6" tall and built like a keep's tower. As a child, she had fished with her father using net and trident. As she quickly grew unusually large, she was apprenticed out to a stonemason, where her unusual size and strength got her assigned to using a sledgehammer for tearsdowns. So her weapon list was net, trident, maul and an oversized knife (Shortsword).

And, thanks to The Beatles, I also want to do a lycanthrope-hunter who wielded a silver hammer. Maxwell was his name.

 

[Ratskinner]

Pretty simple, what are some ideas for characters you have, but haven't used?

Probably the best I never got to use...for the In Nomine game. A kyriotate tripped angel, servant of Jordi. The backstory was that this guy was responsible for spreading the plague back in the day. That got him bounced from the rolls in heaven. Since then, he's been rather resentfully bobbing around the world from vermin to vermin. Kyriotates don't have their own bodies, they have to possess the bodies of mortals...but they can possess several at once! This guy just runs around as infestations of various vermin and scurrying critters. Awesome source of underworld information.

 

[Jesauce]

A few ideas I had:

Pathfinder: Female Synthesist Summoner - Feline Eidolon, every time she summons the ritual is a magical cat-girl transformation, complete with music and catchphrases.
Broodmaster Summoner - Summons swarm of Corgi Eidolons that use grapples to cuddle enemies into submission.

Dark Heresy game I want to run. Two scum named William and Theodore get their hands on a warp-capable Vox-booth they name the Fera Equus and use it to travel the galaxy, ending up on a pleasure world where they recruit a philosopher, a feral world where they recruit a warlord a Fuedal world where they Recruit a General and a Forge world where they find a Gunslinger and they all end up having a crazy adventure where they go around saving the Imperium.

 

[BigVanVader]

Dark Heresy game I want to run. Two scum named William and Theodore get their hands on a warp-capable Vox-booth they name the Fera Equus and use it to travel the galaxy, ending up on a pleasure world where they recruit a philosopher, a feral world where they recruit a warlord a Fuedal world where they Recruit a General and a Forge world where they find a Gunslinger and they all end up having a crazy adventure where they go around saving the Imperium.

This idea is most excellent, dude! SO-CRATES!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

PURITY BALLS: The hard drinkin', twin .45 totin' female gunslinger, and the daughter of Rev. Ezekiel Leviathan Balls

AMANDA NEVERMIND: modern fantasy arcanist

CRAZY M'FAKA: African themed berserker

KOSMO SHARKTOPUSOPOLIS: nerdy brainy type for any modern horror setting, especially comedic modern horror.

SPRUCE WAYNE: an anthropomorphic plant man vigilante.

NEFARIOUS LEE: a Saturday morning cartoon style ne'er do well

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Years ago, I had an idea: create a character that I could run in multiple systems, so that if invited to join a game, I could quickly be up to speed. The concept I came up with was statted up easily enough- he was a mercenary- and in fact, I DID stat him up in about a dozen systems. But he was a "scary clown" type, and I never did find a game in which he was appropriate.