Your unused character ideas?

[Samloyal23]

I envisioned it being a half-formed face on the back of his own head, or a 'hump' that was actually the quasi-melted-looking baby-sized thing attached to his back.

Sounds like a character from X-Files when they were investigating crimes around a circus with an unusual freak show. Also there was a mutant in Total Recall who was a parasitic twin.

 

[BigVanVader]

For years, I have wanted to do an aged warrior who is picking up the accouterments of war one last time, a glory ride, if you will, for a just cause.

I've written it up in D&D as a Ftr, Rgr, Brb and Paladin, with a variety of reasons as to why this "veteran" is mechanically low level. In some write-ups, the warrior is merely quite old, in others, dissolute living has left him or her a shell of the former stalwart. In each case, skills have atrophied, talents diminished, and powers have been forgotten. As the party adventures, the rust is shaken off and those abilities "resurface."

Some incarnations go a bit Quixotic, with the warrior having a sidekick who- hopefully NATURALLY in the course of the adventuring- begins to emulate his master, and gets to take over his mantle & quest when the mentor ultimately fails.

But ya gotsta have the right GM & campaign for that...

I've now got memories of one of my favorite comics, Dark Knight Returns. Also shades of a really great game called Lost Odyssey. I love the idea of "relearning" things you forgot when you gain a level. That is great stuff.

I'm gonna steal that idea so hard, man.

 

[Zhaleskra]

Don't know if it would be a PC or an NPC, but I did have an idea for a character who was the child of Anne Bonnie (or a similar female pirate), where instead of the records being lost to time, she was in fact hanged after giving birth. The hanging of the character's mother being his or her first memory.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Marvel Comics' Black Bolt has always been a nifty character, and as soon as I saw the Infernal Sorcerer Howl feat in 3.5Ed, I thought about playing a PC based on him. Haven't gotten the chance to, yet.

 

[BigVanVader]

Ohhh, Black Bolt is great. He can reduce you to rubble with a whisper.

Keeping with the comics theme, I've always wanted to make a sort of medieval or Renaissance flavored Batman expy. Black and gray outfit, mask cape and cowl, fights really well up close, tons of throwing knives and maybe some little alchemist tricks. It really would be fun to see that wandering through dungeons, and brooding on the rooftops of some fantasy city that serves as his base of operations.

 

[Samloyal23]

I may be finally getting to play an awakened slime. Almost as good a living spell. The Sigantium game book is going to have an amorph race I created. Anyone else ever play a slime or ooze as a character?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Nah, too close to my real life experiences as a lawyer.












(I was not just going to leave that hanging out there.)

 

[dracomilan]

When AD&D was coming to its glorious end, there was a product that allowed you to play a crawling hand. I so badly wanted to play one, but alas at the time I was always the only DM available so I was left with the craving...

Ok, you can start with the jokes