>>39839863
>A half demon assassin who was abandoned at a young age, constantly brooding and angst ridden over his past.
The character doesn't actually have anything to brood over, so he mostly comes off as a whiny bitch.

>>39839881
You forgot your overdone trope, anon.

>>39839863
>A half demon assassin who was abandoned at a young age, constantly brooding and angst ridden over his past.
He fucked up when he was trying to be cool and a swordplay stunt went wrong, so his strikes are precise, methodical, and mechanical.
He doesn't dare someone who's using a prisoner as a body shield.
He's trying to get over himself, and attempts to overcome what he sees as childish emotions of self-pity by repressing them and pursing romantic affairs to try to take his mind off of them.
However, his relationships always end due to him seeming distant or uninterested.

My turn.
>Evil uncle to the rightful, good, and combat capable and intelligent prince, attempting to take over the realm despite his nephew referenced prior being well-suited to rule.

>>39839935
A bard who fucks things.

>>39839863
Although he has angst, he hides it in order to brighten up everyone's day. For if he dwells on the past, he knows it, and his demon side, will consume him, and all he cares about. Basically Not!Dante.

And now for my character concept.
A loli vampire.

>>39839953
Despite being well-suited to rule, the prince struggles to make decisions between what is good and what the people truly need, and the uncle is more than capable of giving the people what they need rather than what they want.

>>39839955
He fucks to forget her.

>>39839955
Lacks any morals or grounded roots due to having been born on the streets and raised by terrible people who abused him.
The concept of restraint is almost alien to him, and he's an alcoholic.
Nearly beaten to death once (and justly so) for raping a woman, only barely managed to escape.
Took up music so that he could pay for his phlandering, realizing that non-con is more costly than hiring a whore.
Currently under the eye of the group's paladin, who has to keep in on the straight and narrow.
Cries sometimes when he recalls his scarred and depraved history.

>Preachy, Self-Righteous Paladin

>>39839990
This vampire doesn't really understand what has happened to her, and is frightened by what happened to her. She is terrified of what is going on, and distrusts everyone. As such, she has a tendency to go into tantrum-like blood-crazes when she starves herself, and the police are currently out to get her.

>>39840004
And I forgot to leave a trope.

>The thief who steals from the party but has a 'heart of gold' (and would probably steal it if he could) in social situations.

>>39839990
Turned at an early age, her growth is stunted to such a slow that it is nearly halted altogether.
Undergoes a mixture of self-loathing and sexual frustration due to her physique and her mind being mismatched.
Currently looking for someone who can stake her and resurrect her as an adult.

>Dwarven Sir Drinks-a-Lot

>>39840036
The paladin's father committed a terrible act of murder in order to gain personal power. This left his child terrified of those who would seek power, and motivated their holy quest. But as their own power has grown, they've come to fear that they might become corrupted by the desire for still more. The preaching is partly a mask to hide their fear, and partly a sort of mantra which they hope will keep them from straying down a dark path.

Speaking of darkness,

>The cloaked ranger who broods in the corner all the god damn time.

>>39840167
The ranger is actually agoraphobic and will panic if he goes away from his safe corner.

>>39840167
He's mildly autistic, and became a ranger because he finds being alone in the middle of the wilderness soothing. He hangs out in the tavern to watch other people have what he never will: a social life.
>The omnicidal lich

>>39840226
"Oh, Pelor, how do I stop being a lich, I hate this so much when did I ever think this was a good idea?"
"Wait- what does this spell do?"
>When the party shows up
"What do you mean i started the apocalypse?"
>Shuffles through notes.
"Well... Fuck me."

>Red-headed swordsman who is also secretly a dragon

>>39840226
He's old and ancient enough that society, culture, and even the species have advanced to a point that they're incomparable to him, and he plans to destroy them out of a fear of being considered inferior.

>the evil race shapeshifter who must keep his identity secret

>>39840307
Change that to:
>Bold, young male swordsman who also happens to secretly be a dragon.

>>39840065

The party, despite being the heroes of the land, hoard their truly insane amount of wealth, only spending it in the tens to hundreds of thousand on magical items. They have passed the need to eat, drink, and for some even sleep, making them a sink on local economies as they charge insane fees for their "heroic" acts.

As such, the thief has taken to skim off a few thousand gold here or there, pocketing some of the useless magical items that will just be hawked to a wizard as barter for magic a==al enchantments.

The thief donates these magic items to the local town guard, to better equip them against threats, and gives the gold out to down on their luck merchants and orphans, to bolster the locals for when the party eventually moves on to the next great challenge, leaving the towns behind them penniless, if it were not for one kind hearted rogue.

>>39840335

Forgot trope

>Lawful Stupid Paladin keeps trying to smite the party members for jaywalking.

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>>39840307
He's a dragon in a wig. Isn't fooling anyone.


>Really fucking gullible Guards.

>>39840362
Broken/cursed Warforged whose 'programming' glitches up a lot. Is a paladin so he can eventually remove the affliction himself.
>>39840381
The princess pays them without Daddy's knowledge to let her friends pass.
They automatically assume a lot of fancily-dressed young men and women are her friends.

>Asshole genie

>>39840362
The Paladin is warforged- a literal smite-bot. Has all of the actual compassion and empathy of a predator drone.
>Doom cultist worshipping gods that promise literally nothing but a horrible death

>>39840331

All dragons need to get their hoard somehow, and without a horde of kobolds to mine and smelt it for you, young dragons are left with few options besides loot and burn.

Turning to a mortal life as a sell sword is a good way to get some starting capital, maybe even sire a few bastard children along the way.

Once he has a century or two, we can expect him to cool down and find a new means of hoard production. Until then, why NOT see what it's like, living by your wit and steel? Certainly seems more entertaining then demanding virgins and being a fat sack of shit.

>>39840362
He was raised in an incredibly strict order of paladins of a lawful divinity whose shtick was to ordain severe punishment no matter the offense, he just doesnt know any better, he's the product of his upbringing

>loli vampire who's 10 000 years old and even the fucking gods of the setting are "scared" of her and she just bullshits her way in everyone's heart because of her "charming" ways and totally not her charm person that somehow she can make it mass charm person for why the fuck not and also gets a kick out of making clerics, paladins and druids fall

>>39840416

The god was just going through a "phase" when he wrote his blood soaked manifesto upon the hides of his enemies. The cult hasn't caught up yet, and the god, being a god, doesn't want to deprive himself of worshippers. But he does work with the other deities to keep them in check, and should he ever be fully manifested, he'll smack them all upside the head and tell them to stop being such self destructive douchebags.

>I am sorry, but your princess/macguffin is in another castle.

>>39840425
Mask of Nyarlathotep.
>>39840414
If you were trapped in a bottle for 10,000 years and then magically bound to give a boon to a bunch of murderhobos, wouldn't you want to fuck with them as much as possible too?
>>39840453
The spymaster is feeding his adventurer 'allies' misleading information, in order to delay them getting the MacGuffin while he works on his own plots.

>>39840453
The king is really sick and tired of adventurers coming to his doorstep, so for shits and gigles he blatantly lies to them about what they're facing to get them out of his castle.
>>39840425
A literal god of depravity and lust, and uses her natural control over lust and seduction to tempt paladins into lewdness, after which they either serve her or commit suicide.
Uses the males as breeding bulls for her demigods, who she sends into the world as bringers of corruption.

>>39840425

She is one of the daughters of Caine, blessed/cursed with almost pure blood in her veins. As such, she IS impossibly old, and impossibly powerful. The gods fear her because she is the child of the god of vampires, making her very powerful even if not divine.

She gets a kick out of making true believers fall, because she wants to make her own religion, to try and become the God of Vampires herself. What better follower than one who you've broken spiritually? It weakers your foes and strengthens you. Win-Win for wannabe godling.

>I am 10,000 years old and I grew up in Tokyo Japan. My favorite band is (Some J-pop group from modern era)

>>39840521
Dammit.
That should read goddess or demoness.
>Old man who is a badass but looks like a fucking twig.

>>39840501
>Mask of Nyarlathotep.
I'm missing something here definitely

>>39840453
The BBEG knows that the safest macguffin is one that's always on the move, always outside the grasp of those pesky adventurers.
>The relationship between the hero and his gf consists mostly of belligerent arguing with sparse moments of actual love.

>>39840532
>stuck in a cryogenics tube and im totally not ripping Futurama

>>39840541

Nyarlathotep has a thousand masks, a thousand forms. From the Black Pharoh to the Hunter in Darkness, each is unique and different. He obviously has more than a thousand forms too.

>>39840541
Nyarlathotep is one of the Outer Gods in the Cthulhu Mythos, and one of the very few that interact with humans on anything approaching a personal level. In the guises of his many Masks, he endlessly fucks with humanity for his own amusement.

>>39840590
oh ok he's The Deceiver, Tzeentch, Eldrad, and a bunch of other trolls from other settings rolled into one.
gotcha

>>39840550

Obviously, they were not meant to be. A spur of the moment relationship, forged in the fires of war, but untested in the fields of peace. They will drift their seperate ways, and eventually find the right person for them. True love is rare, and just because you are the hero doesn't mean you are going to have it.

>This isn't even my final form.

>>39840532
Born in Tokyo, Japan.
Was thrown back in time by some temporal bullshit, gained immortality until his originally planned death in modern times through the universe's a way to keep the timeline stable.
Had an MP3 player he's been carrying all these years, which also never run out of batterydue to the time-issue.
They were his favorite band then, still are now.
Now that he's back, no-one form the past remembers him, and he's losing his memories.
He's also afraid because he can die now.
>>39840550
Both of them are naturally aggressive soldiers, but their hormone levels drop outside of combat, letting them be more lovey-dovey.
>>39840626
This form is unstable- but the last one is even more so.
If I change forms, I'll die- but so will you, and you're probably going to kill me anyways.

>I'm here to kill Hitler!

>>39840622

Nyarly and Tzeentch would get along. Each trying to out Just As Planned each other.

>>39840662

"I'm here to kill Hitler" was a common reason for people to join the vast array of spies making their way into Berlin. While not exactly possible, that motivation was enough to see many a souls through the hard, trying times as a double agent.

>You killed the BBEG, and now GOD appears to try and kill you, for reasons.

>>39840662
Hitler, as a young man, wased used to seal away an ancient and evil mesopotamian spirit, which drove him gradually insane and puked him to hate Jews. Killing him will unleash the beast unto the world. Are you a bad enough cultist to do it?

>tribal cat-people

>>39840704
"Seriously, what are you guys even doing?
You're killing everything indiscriminately, so long as it poses a challenge.
If it'll really make you sword-swinging children shut up, you can fight an avatar I willed into existence.
But I'm God, source of all existence, so you really can't kill me.
Have fun destroying a puppet, you monsters."
>>39840748
A bunch of scientists got really drunk and fucked up big-time, but still have enough moors to let their cat-people live in peace.
With no human interference, they develop tribes of their own, unaware of their true nature.

>Ablu Ablu Ablu! My family doesn't love me (even though they really do) so I'll destroy everything!

>>39840809

In the ruins of humanity, the pets continued to adapt without their human masters. A breed of polydactyly housecats were the first to evolve the use of thumbs. A few million generations have passed since these cats became the dominate breed, able to open, close, latch, lock and otherwise manipulate human objects. The ruins of humanity have long since drifted into the halls of legend, but the advances to the felines has remained.

>>39840809
The world is really a simulation everyone is trapped in, and he's destroying it to make is family proud and to overcome is self-worth issue. By destroying the simulation everyone in it will wake up in the real world unharmed.

>Humanity does not have their own divine patron god.

>>39840809

The family in question is the lead pantheon, and truth be told, they are ALL DICKS. All of them. They make the Greeks look nice. Little Billy's attempt to unmake everything actually has their total support, since umaking existence would give them a NEW playground to fuck with.

They love their omnicidial child.

>You are the hero that will save the world! Your coming has been foretold, and we all know you will save us from the upcoming horrors. We are going to charge you full price on everything, and have you perform idiotic side quests so we can give you little baubles that will soon become useless.

>>39840923
Humanity had a patron god, but then humans started using him as an excuse to kill nonhumans, so he works behind the curtains and extremely rarely overtly to make sure people don't go crazy in his name.
>>39840963
Literally everyone but you thinks it's bullshit and is trying to use your hero complex to do their chores for them.
They shape up when shit really does start going down.

>Guys with white hair are evil.
>No exceptions.

>>39840923

Humanity, being the adaptive little blighters they are, decide that is it easier to just follow pre-existing gods. Why make your own weak fledgling in a field of giants, when you can just root for the bigger guy? Underdog or not, new gods die QUICKLY when faced with things like the God of the Sun, the Elemental Lords, the Fae Courts, or the plethora of other ancient and infinitely more powerful beings.

>My character has a high charisma, so it automatically means they are SMOKIN' HOT!

>>39841019
The world is literally dependent on 'crystals' of energy that increase your relevant statistics.
The Crystals of Charisma boost both appearance and speaking ability.

>Elves are pretentious little bitches who are actually worse than every other species rather than better

>>39841012

The tell for a demonic possession is the hair turning pure white after the host is forced to see Hell in all it's glory before their soul is subdued. Due to a genetic quirk, males never go grey with age. Their hair retains its color for life.

>The power of friendship is never defeated.

>>39841078
I am using the word literally too much.
Literally.
Forgive me, teegee.

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>>39841012
>No exceptions

>>39841089

For your apology, you will only be sentenced to TEN minutes in the Painglove.

>>39841096
Have *you* played the new DMC games?
Thankfully, I've been spared.
>>39841086
Because, like a group of sticks tied together is stronger,, a group of highly-connected souls produce more mana than those that are alone.
>>39841142
Very well.

>Orc rapes everything.

>>39839990
>A loli vampire.
Child was turned when she was still young and innocent. Upon her death, she went to literal catholic heaven, and was perfectly happy. Being turned into a vampire dragged her soul back from heaven. Now that her faith has turned to knowledge (and faith is impossible) and her human form has turned into a demonic one, she is completely irredemable, and she knows it, despite having OBJECTIVELY experienced heaven... in-fact BECAUSE she objectively experienced heaven

>>39840226
>The omnicidal lich
Similar to the last one, but the afterlife is objectively real, and he has calculated that for the first time in millenia, GOOD is actually ahead in the cosmic battle for souls and petitioners. This is extremely rare, and likely to be undone soon. To prevent this, he must send everything to the afterlife, without the possibility of new creatures. By becoming an evil antagonist, he knows that he will shape the world towards good protagonists before he destroys it. He knows that this all will damn him to eternal punishment, but he is willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause.

>>39841078
Curses tend to be hereditary, and a good one will last practically forever. The elves are old; they've had plenty of time to accumulate them. Curse layering upon curse, losing their more specific effects, diluting as they spread over more and more people; but still there, still weighing the elves down.

>>39841149
Forgot trope.
>Farm boy with a sword and a destiny.

>>39841149
I don't think that's how Heaven works, but I can't speak from personal experience.
>>39841168
All the heroic knights have been killed.
In the eyes of the realm, only peasant men can fight, and noblewomen offer themselves or their daughter in exchange for heroics.

>>39841168
The child of a previous hero who just settled down with his beloved with the blessings of the king.

>The power of love

>>39841198
Oh, dammit.
>Help, the princess has been kidnapped!

>>39841078
An ancient kingdom of man cursed for pride and vanity. A wrathful god stole away their their great works and knowledge and, as a topper, made them immortal so they have to live with their terribleness forever. Didn't quite work out, though, as they continue to be vain and prideful to the point of delusion.

>Band of villains failing because most, if not all, of them are suicidally EVIL and backstab each other at the drop of a hat.

>>39841078
>Elves are pretentious little bitches who are actually worse than every other species rather than better
Elves are all biologically sociopaths who are incapable of either empathy or compassion. Everything about their current physiology is magically engineered to avoid the forevertorture that they are all doomed for when they die. Their longevity, their magical aptitude (for the lich who wants to stick around) the fact that rather than die they fade away to a distant land. They KNOW they are bound for hell, and they don't intend to ever let that happen. They are the ultimate "play it safe" race, because of this.

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>>39841148
But that's Donte, and he has black hair.

>>39840533
After singlehandedly slaying 4 dragons and collecting the torn out eyes of orc children for years he was cursed by an ancient god, transforming him into a twig.

>>39841227
The participants are evil BECAUSE they're stupid.

>Westerner wielding katana

>>39841206
The God of Love takes an active interest in anyone that falls into her domain. Being in love, and especially doing something for love, makes you more competent because you have a micromanaging god in your corner.

>Shitty little dirtfarming village somehow hosts a well-stocked potion shop with all the Potions of CLW a starting party needs.

>>39841240
You're forgetting his brother, Virgin. He was a literal fedorian with white hair, katana, trenchcoat, the eponymous hat, leet hacking skills, and believed himself to be enlightened by his euphoric intellect and specialness

>>39841266
Got it off a Dutch trader, who brought a hundred of the things while he was in Japan to sell in Europe as novelties.

>>39841148
He travels the lands, impregnating all he see as offering to the god of fertility.

>>39841289
>his brother, Virgin.
So Donte won't have any nephews, then?

>>39841266
It's a grosse messer with a smaller guard to ease hiding.

>"I fight for my friends" as the only motivation

>>39841340
His friends are the only things he has left besides his armor.
His family was nobility.
Was.
The castle was crushed, fields burned, family slain.
He has only his companions to lean on, and will be destroyed if any of them die.

>Sassy 'minority' character

>>39841340
The character doesn't want to be there and was drug into this because he doesn't want to abandon an idiotic friend and let him die in a forest. Literally the only reason he's out here is to make sure his stupid friend doesn't kick the bucket.

>Battle Princes
Hard Mode: No normal armor; reinforced battledress complete with giant poofy ballgown skirt.

>>39841380
FUCK
>princess*

>>39841368
Character is terrified of his companions, them being murderhobos and all, and is in effect putting on a vaudeville act to make sure they're entertained enough they won't want to kill him.

>>39841380
Only there for show.
Sghe hates the stink and heat of combat, but appears beside her father for morale and solidarity.
Plus, all the knights there declare they'll fight for her.
Maybe one of them is Prince Charming.
Speaking of which,

>Prince Charming is secretly an asshole.

>>39841289
Dante is still an exception though, it doesn't matter what Virgil did.

>>39841380
War is a sport and nobody actually dies. All in good fun.

>Bikini armor

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>>39841380
It is traditional for members of the royal family to experience war in person at least once, so that they never forget what their power ultimately rests on.
The poofy ballgown is a. magic and b. fucking fabulous, which is just as important as any actual protective qualities. Pic sort of related.

>>39841431
Eh, sure, whatever.
I didn't mean it seriously, anyways.

>>39841086
Verbal contracts are easily made and magically enforced by the world itself and the constant abuse of that has resulted in a cutthroat and paranoid population, where one misspoken word can leave you another's slave in all but the word. There are ancient tales that tell of a powerful word so powerful and terrifying it's existence was purged and all know records were destroyed.
The word is "Friend", and all it does is dispell a person's distrust/paranoia, which means they wind up not being on guard and trapped in verbal contracts easily

>Town sacrificing a Female virgin to please the local dragon

>>39840963
>You are the hero that will save the world! Your coming has been foretold, and we all know you will save us from the upcoming horrors. We are going to charge you full price on everything, and have you perform idiotic side quests so we can give you little baubles that will soon become useless.
The gods use this region of this plane as a their equivalent of reality television. Everyone but you is under the direct control of the gods, and OF COURSE you are destined to destroy the evil thing, that's how the story goes, and your destiny is why you were picked to be the next contestant. The fun is wagering on exactly how it will happen, and how well you will do at all the menial tasks along the way, then manipulating the thralls to make it turn out your way... you know petty god reality tv stuffl

>Revolving door "similar but different enough to count as a different" character early levels because of high lethality.

>>39841444
People do weird shit when confronted with an unstoppable force with unclear motives. The virgin-sacrificing is only one of a dizzying array of religious, quasi-religious, folkloric and just downright weird methods they're using in an attempt to curry the dragon's favor. Basically, they're trying everything in the hopes that -something- will work.

>>39841444
The dragon has a vore fetish and likes shapeshifting into human men.
Alternatively, he needs someone to bear him young, and secretly keeps all the females hidden where they bear him young against their will.
His children eventually rise up and slay him.

>>39841491
The gods hand out reincarnations towards those dying of particularly brutal accidents or exceptionally bad luck.
It's why everyone gets over the fact a town's been destroyed pretty easily.

>I've got my eye on you, adventurers! You can't fool me, you're only in it for yourselves!
Hard mode: He's wrong.

>>39841540
It's also why you never seem to run out of kobolds or orcs.

>>39841423
Charming is pragmatic. As much as he loves the princess, and he does, he has a kingdom to look after, a decrepit father in the grip of madness, and pretenders to the throne with more ambition than good sense. He'll made the hard decisions, even if it hurts himself and the princess he loves, such as marrying a meaner, richer one.

>>39841432
Female gladiatorial armor.

>Wizard academy that doesn't screen for future BBEGs.

>>39841639
They're not actually teaching magic- it's all a crock.

>My character can defy destiny, the force that binds literally EVERYONE ELSE.

>>39841540
Not exactly a new idea, but this guy knows they aren't just in it for themselves, but by accusing them of such they'll only seek to prove him wrong even more, like thta peter Parker/Jonah Jameson fan theory

>>39841639
Knowledge is knowledge, the masters of the academy don't care about human life or pointless destruction, all they care about is pure data.

>>39841714
He is the only being in existence that has the power of free will, An individual in a world of puppets

>>39841714
Gratz homie, your playing as gods who don't realize that the world exists to serve and in reaction to you. Ain't you special.

>incredibly obnoxious small mascot character

>>39841540
>I've got my eye on you, adventurers! You can't fool me, you're only in it for yourselves!
The man is an ex-adventurer himself, a fallen paladin even, who lost his faith and quit when the dickass thief left the woman that he loved to die a terrible death.
While he wanted vengeance at first the rest of the party came to the thief's defense, and while the thief might be a bastard, they were friends once.
He has since taken up life as a bartender and gives adventurers a hard time, but when an old friend comes to him with assassins chasing said friend into the bar, it is time to pick the sword back up holy wrath or not.

The woman was dying of terminal illness, but only her thief half-brother knew, she made him promise to abandon her to the demonic horde if she started to slow the party's escape.

>>39841540

During your questing, you could not save them all. You couldn't always do the right thing. You asked for a bit extra that one time, you flat out demanded a solid meal and a warm place to sleep after a hard days questing for these peasants.

Some got it in their head you just used "Adventuring" as an excuse to go places you shouldn't go, take things you shouldn't take, and leave before the problems you caused caught up to you. And maybe, in those early, hard years, when you were getting your feet under you, finding your party... You did. But don't we all make mistakes? Can this man hate me for that one failure, so long ago? Yes. Yes he can. And I will weep for that man. Both for what I did to him, and what he is doing to himself.

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>>39841639
Magic has been researched so heavily it's become the same as crunching numbers as an accountant and wizards are essentially government workers in the setting.

>>39841540
A Lord with too much gold and a grudge hires loudmouthed assholes to travel around and lower public opinion on paladins. A regular strategy is to accuse them of being selfish and a paladin only in name.

>>39841805
A party member found an egg while you were exploring the dungeon, but it hatched and imprinted you as it "mother". It's also anchored itself to you mentally, so killing it's out of the question unless you enjoy being braindead and anytime it's upset it releases a psychic cry that tears at your mind to the point of you passing out.

>>39841491
The party is cursed by a Deity for abolishing an age old tradition to never change, so they spend eternity raiding dungeons and recruiting replacements for dead party members from local pubs. As time goes on the replacements slowly and painfully begin to morph into the original member they replaced, at first seeming only to be painful growthspurts but then becoming will checks to realize they're no longer being called by their name, but the original's name.

>>39841279
>Shitty little dirtfarming village somehow hosts a well-stocked potion shop with all the Potions of CLW a starting party needs
SLD village is the remnants of a nomadic tribe that settled in an extremely fertile area after most of the hunter were killed. They're the no.1 producers of alchemical regents and potions in the area and sell them in large quantity to traveling merchants.

>>39840521
lolivampire is actually slaneesh?

>>39840662
reverse Samurai Jack?

>>39841148
Orcan lifespan is much shorter and are much more prone to early violent deaths. Without constant breeding, their race would die in a matter of decades.

As such, untraveled orcs don't really have a concept of non-consensual sex. If the union could produce a kid, they automatically want it. Gotta produce as many babies as you can before you die. No time for being choosy, survival of the fittest will do that job on its own.

>>39841168
his destiny is to get rekt, hard, but accidentally enable some later hero to fulfill /his/ destiny.

>>39841368
>>39841380
I know a guy who has literally played a combo of these characters.

my friend is all i have left, and he's off to do some fool adventuring thing and get himself killed. I'm stuck going along because i know if I let him go alone he'll all die, and I'll have lost anything I ever held dear, all because he thinks he has some bullscat destiny to fulfill.

>>39841639
they recognize BBEGs as the necessary evil they are, because their ambition spurs others into greatness to contest them
if they had a graduating class without any BBEG fodder they'd be worried.

>>39841714
>>39841805
literally Exalted

>>39840085
The Dwarf drinks not because he enjoys the feeling, but feels like he should, for all of those comrades he lost in the war. Were it up to him, he'd just as easily curl up by the hearth and read, but he makes sure to drink as much as they would have read for him.

>>39841222
The princess is using the innocent townsfolk to lure powerful adventurer's to her newly acquired rogues den to kill them or rob them blind trying.

>The giant barbarian/fighter who goes by the name "Tiny"

>>39844494

It was a childhood nickname, given to him for how small he was as a child. Luckily, a good many seasons came during his formative years, and the man towers now. However, he still holds onto the nickname, as a reminding to him of those friends of his, back in some safe little hamlet. It's a name that reminds him of home.

>>39844494
is a gnome piloting mechanized suit of armor. (man-sized fantasy gundam)

alternately, was the runt as a kid, but had a massive growth spurt.

>>39840085
internalized peer pressure. he doesn't like it, in fact he rather hates the feeling of inebriation as well as how he acts in such a state, he does it because its expected of him.

>Wizard/Scientist (wizard is just a scientist of magic anyways, might as well lump them) with no sense of morality

>>39841227
It's all a honey pot operation.

>>39840085

>>39840206

>He's trying to outdo the legendary drinker in the stories of his clansmen because its the only thing he's good at and wants his name remembered somehow, even if its for something as minor as alcohol consumption.
>A Brewer by trade adventuring to sample and find the unique tastes and techniques from the over world's beercraft to combine and perfect the ultimate spirit recipe.
>He is dying of a terminal affliction and alcohol dulls the symptoms while he searches for a cure from storied and powerful Alchemist Wizards. The money he earns goes nearly entirely towards their fees and/or his quests are for payment and ingredients.


woah, these were good dude, why'd you delete your post?

>>39840307
>"What do you mean i started the apocalypse?"
>*Shuffles through notes.*
>"Well... Fuck me."

my sides

>>39844717
He's tried several times to use his inventions to improve the lives of those around him and every time it's backfired tremendously. His apathy for the plight of others is a defence mechanism so that he never gets attached enough to make a horrible decision and actually help them.

>Time-traveler with a shotgun and infinite ammo in a renaissance-era campaign setting.

>>39844793
>Time-traveler with a shotgun and infinite ammo in a renaissance-era campaign setting.

what group are you play with that this is a trope, and where do I join?

>>39844804
My character in my long-running tabletop game is an inventor whose boss assigned her as a bodyguard for some local VIPs due to her having invented rail-gun shotguns about four hundred years early. In a later development she gained limited time-control powers and now more or less explicitly steals her inventions from the future. So far she's invented hypodermic needles, large-scale railguns for city defence, and explosive rounds, just to name a few.

The rest of the party are the VIPs, a half-dragon with telepathy and twins with two different types of shadow magic (one's more of a black mage and the other's a ninja). They're the direct descendants of some of the most famous (and notorious) heroes of the age, whereas my character was hired to look after them by the (now reformed) villain they once fought.

If you're seriously interested in joining up our next session is next week, we play over Skype and Roll20 on weekend afternoons EST, and we use Dungeon World with custom classes.

>>39844961
I'm considering it, certainly.

I need to see when a friend of mine is starting up his pokemon (in mutants and masterminds) campaign. I promised I'd be the grounding player for that, and since he's a new GM and everybody else are either new or known wackos I know he'll need it if he intends for things to at any point be more serious than beer-and-pretzels sandbox playdate, which based on his talk about the campaign so far I'm pretty sure he is.

>>39845212
That's fine, if and when you're available I'm sure we could have you join and see if it's your kind of game. The half-dragon player is a serious hardcore RPer, she gets very into it and types up the sessions for us to review later. The ninja player is kinda quiet, she prefers to watch and listen but is just as invested in the game as anyone. The black mage is kind of a power gamer and plays 'edgy' characters but he's a lot better than he was a year ago. As for myself, I like progressing the story more than anything, which is why I have class that literally has a class feature that skips time until important shit happens.

Gameplay-wise there's a lot of talking and not a ton of rolling, the game focuses on social interaction and exploring more than combat. When fights do break out, well, my character is basically Dio Brando with a lightning-powered shotgun, it goes about as well as you'd expect.

>>39845361
>which is why I have class that literally has a class feature that skips time until important shit happens.

you are my hero anon.

not only have I been wanting to play a time-based character for ages, and no system ever supports it, but the levels of not giving a fuck laden in that ability are just golden.

>>39844793
>>Time-traveler with a shotgun and infinite ammo in a renaissance-era campaign setting.

Formerly lived a boring, suburban lifestyle in the early-1990's-equivalent era, and desperately longs to return.

>>39841019
Their high charisma comes only from their looks. They are socially inept, but they get away with things by using those puppy dog eyes. They are a bimbo or attractive fratboy coasting through life on the backs of those who've fallen for them, but are otherwise utterly incapable of handling any responsibility.

>>39845661
actual Samurai Jack.

>>39845396
Look up the Clock Mage for Dungeon World, it's what I use. You literally get a power called The World later on, and a Hyperbolic Time Chamber. The class is mainly a 'utility' character via clever use of time manipulation. For example, at one point our party found an incredibly fragile book in a museum that we needed to get a copy of in order to continue our quest. While the rest of the party argues about mind-controlling the museum curator or sneaking the book outside, my character stops time, opens the book, copies the entire thing down onto a huge stack of parchment, and then replaces it.

As an added bonus, every character has an 'alignment' which basically dictates a specific action that nets you bonus XP if you do it during the session. For example, a Paladin might have "Save an innocent from the forces of darkness". My character has "Resolve a problem with ruthless pragmatism", which usually translates to her stopping time and shooting someone in the fucking face if they waste too much of our time.

>>39846446
how do you keep that from being ridiculously overpowered?
that's why most systems shy away from time stuff.
its either useless or instant win.

>>39840923
Humanity killed their patron God.

>>39840923
isn't that typically some expy of Pelor the Burning Hate?

I think pathfinder's is Sarranae