>>21596785
I've been lucky over the years, there's ben a couple "cool" NPCs who are stronger than the party put together and clearly we are meant to fawn over but they've never stuck around or gone on adventures with us

>>21596975
You've been truly lucky.
We've got a new player (as in, never played DnD before) to our group, and his first character is Itachi from Naruto. No, not a character that's inspired by him, a character that is him. So, while we're mostly wizards, rogues or fighters, the guy's a fucking ninja sorcerer who doesn't talk and attempts to act cool and does whatever the guy from the anime would've done.

Piss off Demogorgon? Who cares, I'm too cool to die. Why is the wizard looking at me funny and preparing Edward's Spiked Tentacles of Penetration?

I once tried to start a serious sci-fi mech rp. Not Gundam or animu; there were no giant human robots with voice activated special effects, or 'LOL SO QUIRKY' characters. The characters were meant to be proper, grizzled miners and mercenaries, while avoiding grimderp. Alien characters were allowed aslong as they weren't silly.

Some guy made a character who was an alien wolf anthro who could breathe underwater, ripped straight form something on DeviantArt, who reaked of animu (I think he had an electric katana or something), and had an annoyingly cool and flashy personality. His mech was a giant spider with more guns than god, which shot smaller spidermechs, which shot smaller spidermechs. Said spidermechs serves various purposes, from being poisonous mines to having even more weaponry.

I turned him down several times and made him keep editing his character sheet. I eventually accepted him because he wouldn't shut up, and I was relatively new to GMing at the time.

>>21597285
Proceed.

>>21597304
I'm afraid there's not really much to proceed with.

The game started with everyone on a mining ship, either as a miner or hired mercenary. I was displeased almost immediately when some people described their characters as doing things like eating ramen and doing 'lol funneh animu' stuff (like pulling faces and doing those sudden weird animu trip things). Wolf anthro was busy beating all the WEAK PUNY UNCOORDINATED BORING humans at pool.

The campaign just kind of came to a halt very shortly after it began, after the party landed on the big spaceship which was the focus of the story.


The annoying characters were partially diluted by a pretty cool guy. His character was an AI with the personality of a british gentlemen, who could go from his mech to his main body, which was a big bulky 'retro' looking robot.

>>21597285
Don't you know that everything is spiders?
We've been over this before.

The only big Mary Sue problem I ever encountered was my friends Half-Dwarf Half-Celestial Prince who had two scimitars that absorbed all magic, two gloves that channeled that magic, 65 SR, and I think all his stats were in the hundreds. This was also the game he DM'd.

To be fair, though, we all ended up being pretty Mary-Sue-ish by the end of that campaign. I had a Sorcerer who could learn any spell, change any descriptors to anything else, make wands filled with any spell without an exp penalty, and every item he had gave him a CHA bonus.

We learned from our mistakes, but damnit, we had fun.

This fatass ginger with a neckbeard came to a game in a sci-fi setting I was GMing once. His character was a "hot 17-year old" who had the power to "sense what people thought and tell the future". She was also able to "fight, like, 20 guys at once" since she was apparently once a 'government experiment' since she was a super-genius as a child, since the "government was evil." He reaked of a libertarian just out of a high-school level class on postmodernism. Wonder where that fat fuck is now.

>>21597167
That's as much the GM's fault as the player's. On two fronts, really. He shouldn't have been allowed to make that character, but especially as a new player, the GM should have talked him through what playing a character entails.
That sure doesn't absolve the player of blame though.

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Playing with one currently. She describes herself as:
>an incredibly beautiful woman with a figure that is the envy of many, a complexion that seems mystically unmarred, a face that can melt hearts at a glance, and a voice that, if it wasn't so weighed with her darkness, would be a lovely thing to hear. In fact, it's still beautiful, just darkly so. It is a pity her usual facial expression is one of uncaring apathy, because if she smiled, she could likely brighten up a room.
She cries after combat, carries a gigantic final fantasy sword that she's had since she was a kid, can get black angel wings in times of stress, has amnesia and is secretly a princess of some ancient race.

Pic related, it's her portrait.

I get most of my roleplay on a Play-by-Post forum. One of the problems is that a bunch of people just make big ass lists of character sheets, and then post links to their premade characters on a roleplay they want to join. This wouldn't be so bad, but the characters in these lists are either carefully tailored to work as a mary sue in every setting, or would only fit in a few very specific settings but the players post them anyway.

One time I was GMing a rather cheery medieval fantasy, generic dungeon crawling adventures type game. And some guy posts a link to his character on one of thesae giant sheets. Said character was an alien. A giant xenomorph/tyranid-esque alien. With an edgy background. And it could use magic. And throw up acid.

>>21597743
Kill her in real life.
It's the only way.

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The absolute WORST part is when a normal mary sue player creates a regular character and then plays it off as boring on purpose to try and prove to you that nothing is fun unless its a furry katana that shoots spiders.

Like there is even a choice between having everyone else have fun or just that player have fun. FOOK OFF

>>21597476
Lol that character is basically River Tam from firefly, along with the whole assortment of edgy superhuman little girls.

>>21597743
I seduce the Mary Sue.

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>>21597867
That's the funniest shit

MY MARY SUE WOULD NEVER BE SEDUCED EVERERERERERERER

but he rolled a 20, you can no longer be tsundere

>>21597877
I would drop the dumbest pickup line I could think of at that moment.

"Your character description goes on for miles. You know what else goes on for miles? My dick."

Rolls a 20.

>>21597829
That's the fucking joke Anon. Way to have it go over your head.

>>21597903

I am okay with Venus.

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>>21597762
I weep for you, as a DM.

>>21597903
>Roberta

We both have similar names and glasses, I must impregnate her.

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>>21597911
I laughed.
Cheers!

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I usually play as religious, over the top heroic, white knighting Don Quixotes, with just a dash of religious fervor. My characters always end up looking like an overblown fusion of Alexander Anderson and Jean-Luc Picard.

>MFW I play a moralist, diplomatic, rationalist person with superpowers and still avoid being a mary sue.
>MFW I ask the party what exactly the Lich has done wrong.
>MFW I power game specifically because I know the party might turn on me for being too LG.

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>>21597762
PBP forums attract some real winners. I've seen some shit.

>>21598066
It's things like this why I make the negatives of a character sheet longer than everything.

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>>21598066
>monster bug the result of crazy experiments
eh, a bit generic, but at least it's a bug and not a half elf-half lion-half eagle. Could be salvaged
>has an urge to rape women and elves
never mind

>>21597743

I've noticed a danger sign for a character is usually if they have black hair.

While that in and of itself isn't a big issue, it's usually the way they describe it; "raven" or "jet black" is usually met with a sigh from me, since I know where that character's going.

>>21597983
>>21598066

I'm also the guy who DM'd the "Wolf Anthro Adventures in Space" one.
I think sues often turn up on PbP forums, because there aren't usually set-in-stone rules for character creation and roleplay, so people just go wild and expect whatever shit they make to be acceptable.


>>21598066
Luckily, shit like this doesn't usually go down on the forum I get my rp, seeing as everyone is expected to keep cyber sex in PMs or off-site.

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>>21598122
You guessed it, hoss.
>Hair: Raven black, incredibly long and straight
>Eyes: Dark red
>Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAtilVHdgcc&feature=youtu.be

>>21598122
>people describing their hair as 'raven'
Eugh, Jesus. I hate that so much.

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>>21598177
Yes, me too.

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I've seen some shit.

>>21598122
I know what you mean. Whenever I hear someone using flowery language to describe their character, I just know this guy's going to suck.

I mean, "Single son of a farmer, becomes and adventurer to revenge the death of his family"? I'm okay with that.
But "Born as the lone child of a poor farmer and his loving wife, my character spent his childhood basked in the warmth and comfort of a lovely home, until..." version? Give me a fucking break.

>>21598122

Don't forget how the sections describing their personalities often read like a doctor's report on a patient with bipolar disorder:

>Extremely friendly and outgoing, but suspicious and capable of deep introspective thought, often making them extremely difficult to get close to.

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>>21598236
2/2

>DnD
>Someone played a goddamn vampire elf/human/gnoll(hence why she had pointy dog ears)
>GM allowed it because there was a shortage of players
>Asshole kept demanding rerolls everytime his vampire failed any check.
>Got sick of his bullshit by second game and left.

Last I heard 'Lady Ebony" or whatever got eaten. That guy had a bitch fit. I wish I was there to witness justice in action.

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>>21598236
>>21598253

>Van Helsing

>>21598253
He has a 14 year old girl in his harem. What.

>>21598289
And the reel for the character is "Join the harem". All of my whats.

>>21598241
So you hate people who like to get their character a bit of characterization? L2RP, characters are more than a stat block.

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>>21598289
Said 14 year old girl was raped until she was Stockholme'd into loving him.
Unfortunately, I don't appear to have it saved. Let me search through my files real quick to make sure.

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>>21598365
In the mean time, enjoy this girl from the same player.

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>>21598253
Fixed and saved, I'm sensing this will be the source of much rustling in future threads.

>>21598365
Does anyone have the story of how this kid's TimeSplitters ripoff thing went? I am assuming terribly.

>>21598392
I have gained a new hatred of humanity...

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>>21598401
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THAT TIMESPLITTERS GAME.
SETTLE DOWN KIDS, IT'S STORY TIME.

If any of you do any RP on World of Warcraft, you will know that the backstories and details people write for their characters are simply horrendous. I read a few and immediately stopped RPing on WoW.

>>21598347
No, I don't hate people who give their character a bit of characterization, don't get me wrong. I appreciate all the effort they put into that. What I hate is when they begin describing their character, and it sounds more like a really, really bad fanfic. Just look at the one at >>21597743 .

The worst Mary Sues I've encountered were my own creation. Sadly, they were so heretical I purged them all. Now in here to look at how horrible other people are to make myself feel better.

>>21598447
Meanwhile I consider backstory to be three paragraphs and everything that happens from levels 1 through 5. I only point out things that explain atypical things, like why my Paladin knows how to play infernal hymns and so on.

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>>21598434
ohboyohboy

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>>21598434
So, the thing about the player is that he's not only a bad GM and player, he's a bad person in general. He posted maybe once or twice every few days in games he RAN, and railroaded like a motherfucker. For kicks, a few friends and I joined his game to see what would happen. A few of us played a girl and her three butlers, another, knowing what we were in for, played Cultist-chan and Henderson.
Dimentio, that guy who made it, played Kyle Reese, a seventeen year old with expert rifle training who was totes prepared for the things we found in this wreck of a game.

Found the werewolf harem member by the way, will post momentarily

>>21598490
Do you know what I mean though?
"As a child X was bullied and kicked before being thrown into the Stormwind Canals and almost drowning. X was rescued by a rogue wizard who blah blah to godlike status and was raised to be an example of good in the world, now X travels the world to see what it has to offer"

By travels I mean sits on a bench outside the cathedral, occasionally sleeping with someone.

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>>21598558

> A few of us played a girl and her three butlers, another, knowing what we were in for, played Cultist-chan and Henderson.

Fuck yeah, this is happening.

>>21598556
>mr bones

2spooky4me. The memories...

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>>21598558
The plot is that we were all, for some reason or another, going through the mansion from Timesplitters 2, in our case it was to find the master's missing uncle. While an investigation based, CoC style game could be awesome, Dimentio was hellbent on an exactly done Timesplitters game. Upon our arrival he sealed us in with a tree, which, after some OOC arguing, he decided fell exactly so that we couldn't bust open a window and climb outside at out leisure.

Then we wanted to go left.

>>21598654
Not to mention he also teleported the few people who had not entered the mansion yet inside.

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>>21598725
Speaking of which, I think I will post a few of my quotes.

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>>21598746

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>>21598755

my first ever roleplay was an accidental mistake of me looking for a .hack// MMO.

I ended up arriving to this website http://rp.eliteskills.com this website was a gold of horrible roleplay.

I was sadly once part of those horrible people. I was that guy, I apologize.

>>21598746
>>21598755

Hahahaha it's like he's never improvised. And what's he on about him making the roleplay? I thought that was the PC's job?

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>>21598654
So, apparently, Dimentio had a boss planned out, some sort of deer monster thing, I'm assuming also ripped straight out of Timesplitters.
Before he wanted us to meet it in the rooms on the left, he wanted us to get rifles on the right side of the house.
Most DMs, especially in a play by post, would simply conveniently place the rifles on the left, as well as giving us a reason to carry them anyways. (Two butlers had handguns, Henderson had a shotgun already either way.)
Dimentio decided to coerce us by
A) telling us OOC he had the boss over there and he wanted us to get rifles, spoiling his own plot (but you know damn well we'd adventure there anyways)
B) Having his DMPC swipe Henderson's shotgun and aim at him, telling us all to go right for no real IC reason. This succeeded in two butlers aiming their own guns at him and simultaneously turning everyone hostile.

>>21598236
>call upon dark msgic
THE FLAVOR ENHANCER

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Here is our party, by the way.

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>>21598840
I was in that game too. I'll tell you about it next.

>>21598862
>Alfred
But that's Sebastian!

>>21598389
>selling her body to other men
>i have no idea how prostitution actually works

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Ill just post all of the actual roleplaying, after sorting through the bullshit. The entire time he was complaining and stalling and generally bullshitting.

>>21598862
>A butler named Alfred

I don't know why this bothers me but it really does.

What is this website, is it open so I can read the roleplays? Sounds like a gold mine.

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>>21598899

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>>21598906
It is called Kidzworld or something like that.
This particular roleplay is no longer there. It was destroyed in a fit on Dimmy Rage after I called him on his bullshit.

>this entire thread

Oh God, where is Boxcar Joe the Magic Hobo when you need him.

>>21596785
Pokemon RPG, friend talked me into it.
This was the guy's story: He had access to every Legendary pokemon, because he OC, and I quote, "Grew up on an island where all of the Legendary pokemon were. And because he grew up there the all followed him like dogs because they worshiped him as a god...even though Arceus is Pokegod.

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>>21598929

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>>21598948
I have all of these saved in a folder, so I am just going to dump the rest. That was the last plot we actually did.

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>>21598964
I think this one was actually on a later escapade. Still relevant though.

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>>21598820
Yep. Literally a boss from that level in TimeSplitters 2. Also, he ripped everything else off from it as well, except maybe the kid. I am fuzzy on that part. I'm pretty sure he would just refluff a worm later to be her though. But yeah, literally everything, from the map to the chapter names. Someone should have called him on his shit.

Pic related, it is your deer boss.

>>21598938
you never deliberately create boxcar joe.

He just appears, and only later do you realise it was him.

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>>21598906
The original timesplitters thing was deleted and redone. The butlers' master, Ellie, was played by Dimentio in the reboot.

Instead of being a kuudere wealthy girl, however, she was now a trenchcoat wearing girl who wielded a saber in a katana style she invented herself at age 14.
No, I am not fucking kidding.

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>>21598980
Oh thats right, that was after I made a new thread with the exact same intro and tried to start it up. It ended up locked, by this mod.

>>21598447

I'll admit, I also RP on WoW (in b4 NOT /TG/ HURFDURF GET OFF MAH FURRCHINS), and after awhile, you just tend to filter them out. Then again, half of them seem to be trolls for often than not, so sometimes you can't really tell who's playing it for a joke and who's actually being serious with it.

>>21598929
>was righter
>righter
my sides asploded pls help

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>>21599033

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>>21599043

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>>21599059
I think this is the last one I have.

>>21599059
I want to ruin his every game, ever.

A Bleach-style shinigami vice-captain whose power let her force other people to be her friends. Whose only flaws were a perceived ineptitude at melee combat that, statistically, she did not have. Who somehow got all this power (without actually playing for an hour) and approved by the DM via banging him.

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>>21599082
I'll tell you guys about the werewolf game, but first, I'm going to take care of something.

>>21599093
SPEAKING OF WHICH.

He has started a new roleplay, a direct copy of Green Lantern. We joined that one as well, but he hasnt replied in a while, so it looks dead in the water.

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>>21599124

>>21599124
GENIUS

>>21599059
To be fair, he is only 16. This is what you get for playing with children.

>>21599115
Ah. Banging the DM. The greatest power a player can have over the game, except buying him a pizza. And the ability to dispel ethics.

>>21599158
Did we mention he claims to have knocked a girl up?

I think it is a little more than teenage stupidity. Though, speaking of which, it should have been born by now, but he hasnt posted anything related to it.

Draven Blackstone

This PC has been played by this guy in more systems and more games for more years than the player should care to admit. He has a binder full of his own stats/backstories (about 50+ pages long) as well as that of PCs he takes during convention games he runs (he runs them at anime conventions, not gaming expos). He has more actions per round and can do more damage per round using vaguely made powers that give him control over so many different elements that its obscene. He rules over multiple planes, including all of Ravenloft. And any campaign this guy DMs this character *will* show up in. Usually to nullify the entirety of the party's relevance and action at the end of the campaign/adventure so one of his few weaknesses can be barely exploited (all the weaknesses are in the hands of his best friends character's he adventurered with for years).

To top it off: his theme song: One Winged Angel.

I'm always afraid my character ideas will go over the top. Here's two of my worst that I can just never manifest because I don't want to be "that guy"

First off is a blind swordsman. I would wanna work with the DM about penalties and stuff, but where it gets cheesy is with blind, light spells, etc.

The second is a student of an ancient and dying sword style. He possesses a magical sword that is doomed to kill its wielder (although he doesn't know it). It betrayed and killed his mentor in a fight, and he took it as an heirloom.


How Mary-Sue be these concepts?

>>21599164
I have my first session as DM tomorrow, and one of the players is my boyfriend and one of the others is buying me pizza. Looks like the third player is going to get all the favourable treatment to overcompensate.

>>21599183
MAYBE THAT'S DEADWINA

>>21599183
That's EXACTLY like teenage stupidity. Just like that one kid in the class who claimed to have a girlfriend, she just didn't come to this school and no you can't see a picture of her because it's private.

>>21599203
>The second is a student of an ancient and dying sword style. He possesses a magical sword that is doomed to kill its wielder (although he doesn't know it). It betrayed and killed his mentor in a fight, and he took it as an heirloom.

This one is super, the other one could be worked with I guess

>>21599158
>be 16
>join a freeform with few rules
>create a friendly thief that could cast magic
>the catch is he needs to have his enchanted dagger to cast shit and were all shit spells aside from a shitty heal
>only use that dagger and a normal one for combat
>have balanced stats all around
>look everyone else's characters
>feel pathetic
>in the end of the rp, somehow managed to out-do everyone even if i had crippling weaknesses

I have mixed feelings.

>>21599203
That's just playing to your strengths as far as the blind character is concerned.

The second is a bit too sue-ish.

I think it seems to much like that of a Shonen Anime plot.

>>21599203
Mary Sue is not in the character but how he or she is presented.

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>>21599240
super.... mary sue?

I introduced these concepts to my friend, and he was like "do both at once"

pic related: all of my NOPE

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>>21598122
Is this an acceptable use of the term 'Raven Hair?'

>>21599274
goddamn sue-faggotry and your angsty-black hair.

>>21599274
This is what we call Nic Cage hair.

>>21599266
You could do both at once. Easily. See>>21599257

You're allowed to have powerful, capable characters. You're allowed to be cool.

What people don't like is when you're an ass about it. THAT is what makes people cringe.

You know maybe I've been lucky, but in all my years of online RPing, (Or Tabletop) I've never had experiances like this. I mean I've RPed in WoW, but my guild has generally always been simple structured, comfortable with adlibbing.
Night Elf, was training as a priest, discovered he had a talent for magic, moved to Stormwind to get training.
I've only done ERP once or twice on private chat, but its never been vulgar or childish. And it usually just develops into a large scoping story.
In short, I pity some of you, deeply.

>>21599204
Beware the guy that can dispel ethics. He's the one who'll make a game go off rails. For example:
> A former slave
> Embraced necromancy
> Raises the dead of other slaves to serve him
> "That's not evil - I once was a slave, so I understand their suffering"
> "Also, their new servitude will save the living"
> "Now, excuse me while I burn down this slave barracks to increase my army of undead"

I played in a PbP supers game where we were all supposed to create original character.

One asshole begs the GM to let him play Cassandra Cain. The semi-mute, dyslexic ninja who has a learning disability becausethe language portion of her brain is instead used for more fighting skills. Oh and her parents are the worlds greatest assasins who trained her from birth until she ran away because she didn't want to kill.
That's a fucking actual DC character btw.

Anyway said player spent every single point on fighting and then tried to bullshit his way into getting loads of free crap.
No car? "I go to the batcave and borrow a bat mobile"
Find a tech problem? "I call Oracle"
No money? "I borrow some from Batman"

I would have been able to put up with that except she subjected everyone to lengthy internal monologues about how he was "forced" to "mentor" all these rookie heroes who were crap compared to her and desperatly needed her help.

>>21598365
What the fuck is a "strong but feminine collarbone"?

>>21599351
His logic is flawless!

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>>21599289
>>Nic Cage hair.

>>21599381
So if her language portion of the brain was replaced with fighting, does that means she communicated by hitting people?

>>21599512
It's like sign-language jiu-jitsu.

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>>21599465
The fuck if I know, but in a minute I'm gonna tell you about that game she's from. A game ultimately doomed to be destroyed by its creator. A game about a werewolf hunter, his red riding hood comrade, and his deliciously large axe.

>>21597743
>Has Amnesia
Kill her ASAP

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>>21599624
I can tell this will be good.

>>21599512
It hasn't, it's just devoted to reading body language instead. It's why she ran away: the first time she killed someone, she saw exactly how horrible it was for that person up close and personal and never wanted to do it again.

Normally, I tell people that trying to make Henderson is a bad idea. That Henderson isn't someone you can just put in.

That forcibly inserting Henderson is the 'trolling' equivalent of continuously spouting Monty Python jokes during D&D.

In this case? I'm cool with it. I have a pretty terrible Forum RP story myself I've told here.

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>>21599624
This is the story of John, a thirty something year old man.
John really, REALLY hated werewolves. And this was a game about the poor old werewolves being attacked by the big bad hunters.
The wolves, naturally, were headed by Dimentio's NPC, Jarek van Helsing.
I played an ex-farmer whose family was killed by werewolves, giving him a convenient excuse to genocide them with an executioner's axe. One of my /tg/friends played a character based on Red Riding Hood, whose sister vanished and was made into the Stockholme character you saw above.
So naturally, both characters were pretty intent on fucking some shit up.

>>21597974
>>21598007

They're Mary Sues, you're supposed to hate them, not want to impregnate them! Fuck!

Me and my friends are doing our very first campaign, pathfinder, yada yada. one of my best friends, who has played dnd before, came up with this doozy for his elf wizard's backstory.

He was the only survivor of a village destroyed by a dragon. the dragon spared him for some reason.

Now, is it just me, or isn't that Naruto's backstory in a nutshell?

I just... damn i thought he had more originality in him than that. But then again he is using a name from LoL...

>>21597903

I would like to impregnate both Freya and Miranda.

>>21600317

>Not wanting to impregnate "perfect" women.

>>21600380

That isn't Naruto's backstory, not even close.

Also dragons do that kind of shit on occasion.

>>21599624

what's the name of that creature?

>>21600380
Worry more about the LoL name than the nonexistent connection you're trying to make between their terrible backstory and Naruto

>>21600387
By wanting to impregnate them you're fulfilling the twisted waifu desires of the authors.

Do what the rest of us do, and hate on them like there's not tomorrow. It drove one of the writefags off, it might work for the others as well.

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>>21600225
The game started off rather slowly. We were the only two werewolf hunters, and decided to meet in a bar. We also met a werewolf lieutenant, and damn near got caught by, we discovered, was a werewolf fucking army of unknown size. We retreated to a pair of rooms at the inn, but were soon drawn out by, you guessed it, Dimentio.

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>>21600547
Jarek started off with quite an impression, as I'm sure most people do. Many people get basic impressions about their character, whether they're lively, solitary, etc.
Jarek's impression said "I am immune to silver bullets and also horny; bring me some little girls."
He then promptly received an oil massage from the fourteen year old Elika.

foot fetish guy possessed by a demon who was also being commanded by a greater demon, so he kidnapped a bunch of women, tortured them, and made them his mindslaves whom he had watch around barefoot.

He also used Dante as his character picture and claimed a ruined castle as his own.

I was a wizard that lived in a tower in the woods. I wasnt a great wizard, i spend most of my time making booze instead of potions, selling it, and eventually becoming a booze baron with a dragon protecting his shipments.

Everytime i have to play in an animu-oriented rpg over internet... i always go with a normal human. Considering how everyone wants to be the overpowered demon, the lycan, the mix between an angel and a tentacle monster or any fucking weird overpowered shit... i think a normal guy is the best option

>>21600412
The Beast of Pripyat IIRC (might have been Beast of Chernobyl)

Seriously, check out that dude's works. It'll be worth it.

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>>21600683
Keith Thompson makes the best monsters.

>>21598986
What are the signs of Boxcar Joe, again?

>>21600818
i think that one of the signs of Boxcar Joe was that he owned a couch and was always created in a random character generator, it's been a long while since i looked at said story

>>21600818
>>21600870
A couch, a bass guitar, and aviator glasses from what I can tell.

>>21600870
In addition to this, he always leaves in an ambiguous matter, be it disappearing in a warp storm, or falling off a cliff.

>>21600870
1) Randomly generated
2) A couch in "remarkably good condition"
3) Minor magical or similar powers (?)

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>>21600818
>>21600870
ah here it is!

>>21600870

The couch must always be "in remarkably good shape"

>>21600936
How many random generation tools actually feature this?

I ran an "open" Dark Heresy game at my college once. Anyone who wanted to could sit in session and see whether they liked it, players came and left, it was good, we had a steady group after a while. So one day this person comes in and wants to play. Alright, seems fine. then things got a bit weird. I helped her roll up a character. Guardsman from a destroyed planet, religiously hated Xenos for it. Next session, they'd been investigating an Administratum head for heretical things. First combat encounter and some Chaos cultists come out. The girl then spends ten ful minutes describing how her character's "Beautiful, luscious hair" swept around her "Perfectly shaped head". She finishes by saying she shoots her Lasgun, killing all the heretics with one shot. I explain (Once again) we have dice for that sort of thing. She refuses, saying she'd never miss a shot. I went along with it. Two hours of the bullshit later and she's trying to convince me that she turned the Administratum guy to good, along with the rest of the planet, and it became a paradise.

One of the other players had his character shoot hers for heresy.

Well, I've seen (and played) a lot of stupid shit over the years, so I'll mention a recent instance that stuck out instead.

That being someone's Magical Burst character that later ended up turning into a one in a million sentient youma. She could command parts of the enemy's stronghold to open and such, was the only reason that the other members of the party didn't automatically die from knowing magical girls turn into youma, and probably more things I forget.

And this person had the gall to call my character bland.

>>21600623
I remember the place too, land of avalon.

There was others, from some post-future magical apocalypse that had demons, vampires, robots, and many others things.

There was the Queen Bitch of the undead empire who kept a firm stable of men for her harem. She was played by a guy, got to know him, nice guy, but when you play yourself as vampire queen of the underworld other people are going to want you dead.

I was a classy demon that use 'shadow' magic. Stayed out of most conflicts, and thrived off of them by putting together fights to the death using prisoners, slaves, volunteered fighters, ect. Team Good didnt like how i'd put magical bombs on the prisoners and their spawn. oh well.

>>21600016
>I have a pretty terrible Forum RP story myself I've told here.

Was that the one with the demon mafia, vampires and werewolves, and a car chase involving the TARDIS and Deadpool? Or was that maybe someone else?

i never encountered any but i have been debating having my paladin go full on griffith and wipe out one guy in the most mary sue way possible when its my turn to DM but the problem is i don't think i can justify being "that guy" just to punish someone whos a altaholic in other RPGs and setting the precedent of the campaign escalating from a "friendly session of D&D between bros" which is something we agreed we wouldn't do

the guy in question has been kinda dickish to me in recent sessions but the problem is its only recent and the rest of the group doesn't have a problem with him yet (but agree he does get annoying after awhile outside of D&D) and if i do something to piss him off i probably won't hear the end of it since we are planning on doing a lets play channel together

I play mostly on a Play by Post forum. There's this guy whose characters are always super special and powerful. One was a former paladin who went crazy, killed his comrades, repented, trained under some tengu, and became a merc who is supah fast and his sword can split into two.

Another time, he rolled a character that uses shadow magic and such a trait runs in his family and he has a tendency to act like it's a huge deal in a world where mages can do the same fucking thing.

Oh, and he has this habit of trying to pair his characters to a female mage I occasionally use from time to time. And he doesn't ask me if I want to do such a thing, he just assumes I'm okay with it and has his gary stu try to have 'deep animu conversation' with her.

Unfortunately, most of our campaigns are never completed so I don't get the chance to go 'lol my character lieks someone else' or 'lol my character friend zones you.'

Alright, ready for the shitstorm? From a freeform play-by-post RP I was in we have:

Princess Lien Hua, the Golden Oriental Dragon. Here are some pieces of her character sheet I saved:

Looks: Human Form - A beautiful Chinese girl in her late teens or early twenties.
Dragon - A golden Chinese dragon 10 ft high at the shoulder and 100 ft long, with accent colors of rose and white gold, and brown eyes.
(In both forms she has a perfume like scent, slightly intoxicating to dragon types, which grows stronger if she is exited or under stress. When in dragon form the perfume like scent is more noticeable to humans, and others, as sweet or jasmine like. The effect on dragon types is the same in either form.)

Special Skills: Martial Arts, Languages, Sewing, Pottery, Metallurgy and Smithing, Ordinary Cooking
As a dragon she can fly, breathe fire and chlorine gas.
Her perfumed sweat is a natural healing elixir that can heal any wound or cure any poison.

Special Possessions: Adamantine Sword, Small Bag of Jewels, Magic Summoning Scroll and Brush

At one point she died, and then three days later she came back. And she was got the Dragon Sword from the Dragonsages that gave her seven forms!

A soul reaper, digimon, Nobody (with a keyblade), Fay/Kitsune, mobian echidna 'with the power of X-man Storm', Fire Oni, and a Robot/Earthbender

>>21600616
Are you still there Walter? Or does it just end like that.

>>21601915
I'm still here, I just thought everyone was disinterested. Excuse me, I'll get back to typing.

>>21601759
>As a dragon she can fly, breathe fire and chlorine gas.
>chlorine gas

damn, did the Germans engineer that dragon?

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>>21601759

I didn't realize what the last line o' stuff was meant to be, until I realized it was a list of seven things.

>>Then I made this face.

>>21601952
I'm still interested, just thought you were caught up with something.

>>21601978
She had a character who was a tragic german priest with black angel wings who escaped frighting Nazi Nobodies on earth.

So, its possible.

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>>21600616
After this, Jarek let out a very loud howl, which we of course decided to follow. A few things happened, and John got to fight Jarek right off the bat. Now, my friend and I knew that, in all likelihood, we'd get killed by werewolves, but we still intended to at least go down swinging. I started off by throwing my axe at Dimentio.
He ignored that post and tackled me to the ground. Then he said, "Anon, you should do this or else you'll die" OOC, meaning at this point he was not only railroading story but also characters' INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS.

And then he bit and infected John with werewolf.

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>>21602051
(Friend just reminded me that Red Riding Hood worked for the Vatican, and that we also wanted to make a base in a silver mine before the game died.)

Herein came another chance for great roleplaying. A tragic character, going on one last mission to kill a bunch of werewolves (though there were other animals besides just wolves), before offing himself? I dug it. So, about five posts later, Dimentio sends in a new character to stop anything dramatic from happening. Enter a trenchcoat wearing swordsman who tells us that there's a cure at the Vatican, removing any actual threat from the game.

I should mention by now, he declared me the protagonist out loud, which any GM should know, you never EVER do. It killed off all interest from other players besides me, Red Riding Hood, and Dimentio himself.

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>>21602306
After this, the game died, slowly, before we could do anything cool. Dimentio made a post a week, and the other players didn't want to come back without a chance for a spotlight. The things we had planned, airship assaults, custom firearms, a silver mine fortress, and a way to break down Jarek's castle, never came to fruition. I'd like to use the characters again, if I ever find a similar game, though.

>>21602306
>railroading
>deciding players action
>protagonist

He should of just stuck to writing a book.

>>21602306
Did he call himself Dimentio because he had dementia? It seems pretty likely by just how awful his planning and direction is.

>>21602418
Dimentio was a villain from Super Paper Mario. He was actually kinda cool.

party with three half siblings of drizit (can't even spell that) and according to them they didn't cordinate

I mean I never read the books, can't even spell the dude's name and even I know his whole house/clan thing was killed, now don't get me wrong I like playing drow, I like playing Illitheds, I had a drow oracle blacksmith that was rocking but be your own character

>>21602306
You forgot the part where after biting you the entire massive were-creature army just upped and left.

Not before razing the nearby town we had been staying in to the ground, because Werewolves.

And our forced journey to Vatican city which was luckily only 2 days away, when it would have been far more efficient to just shoot you in the head with a silver bullet and carry on.

and the lack of a defined time period because he wanted modern clothing, but didn't want to give the hunters access to automatic firearms.

Then the Nuns cured you with Holy Majickz.

Then we got an audience with the Pope because "You knew more about his plans than anyone else." despite actually having only fought him once.

Still, I got to Silver Net that Were-bird thing, and by the power of badly thought out fighting scenes was holding off a good portion of this were-creature army on my own whilst you were fighting Jarek.

>>21598044
>MFW I ask the party what exactly the Lich has done wrong.

Creating a Phylactry(sp) requires unspeakably evil acts the author refuses to elaborate upon. The really REALLY evil ones turn them into pacemakers for little girls with heart conditions or someshit.

>>21601280

No, but I remember that thread.

I wish it was an awesome train-wreck like that.

Nah, I got booted from a Gundam one for making a character who was 'too OP' and 'not willing to follow the plot'.

What happened was I built a custom suit under the forum rules starting with the Tallgeese that was 'goes fast' beyond anything else in the freaking universe. My whole thing was an in and out Assassin/war profiteer who was supposed to take out the big targets, who never fought a direct serious engagement.

Please note that this was all known during the approval process, and the character WAS approved.

So I make this character, and right afterwards one faction launches a major attack on the other one. At this time, one of the major characters from the aggressor faction attacks our base in a Gundam of some kind.

Despite the fact that we had no known ties to the group they were warring with, were way the balls out of the way, and he was a fucking DIPLOMAT.

He calls me out, and I do the sensible thing: send out some drones to distract him and go out the back door to run for my life. Dude's a canon badass played by a Admin. I didn't want to die.

>>21602719

He manages to teleport ahead of me despite the fact that I can outrun a beam-rifle in a straight line and tries to attack me. After I evade dieing several times in rapid succession only to try and escape because GUNDAM, I get banned for god-modding.

It should be noted that my suit had the damage resistance of a cardboard box, was made of pure speed-force, and my character was known to be cowardly and opportunistic before this shit started.

A friend of mine who invited me in in the first place got pissed that I got banned for reacting reasonably and in character, while the Admin got to abuse his powers and fuck bitches.

I got invited back and was told it got better, but I never cared enough to return.

>>21602671

>The really REALLY evil ones turn them into pacemakers for little girls with heart conditions or someshit.

.... That is fucking brilliant.

>>21598434
How bad to you have to be to screw up a story that directly copies a linear shooting game? Just say the left wing campaign derail zone was just a room with dusty old furniture and no other exits. There's rooms like that throughout the level with nothing but a grisly scene and maybe health or armour. The whole fucking thing was laid out for him and he couldn't handle it.

The worst part of it all is that now someone out there might think poorly of the Timesplitters series due a bad experience with a rip off. That is just a crime against fun and deceny.

God damnit /tg/ I have to get up early tomorrow and I find this thread. This shit had better still be here by the time I get home from work.

>>21602976
Anyone who would think less of a series based on the quality of some fan's play-by-post game is an idiot.

>>21597903

Hana or Petra (hard mode because of Pertie)

>>21597743
Man, that gave me a great idea for a character.

>an incredibly beautiful woman with a figure that is the envy of many, a complexion that seems mystically unmarred, a face that can melt hearts at a glance, and a voice that, if it wasn't so weighed with her darkness, would be a lovely thing to hear. In fact, it's still beautiful, just darkly so. It is a pity her actual form is a male kodiak grizzly, and is searching for someone to break the polymorph spell so that he may return to the rivers and woods and eat salmon once again.

>>21603530
Bumping.

Not so much about the character but the player:
>Claiming to be a better role player than another player out of spite
>Meta gaming when not permitted
>Interrupting sessions to then later complain that nothing happened all session
>By extension of the above- shouting over other players' RPing to try and be funny

I once thought that trolling open freeforms would be as easy as whipping up a parodically bad Mary Sue and going wild. It took some maturity to realise that I would be indistinguishable from the people I was making fun of, and that the real way to derail a bad freeform is by being... normal. Take advantage of realism and physics where possible, but otherwise just be a normal person amongst the freaks.

Somehow, being that average town guard in a group of godlings disrupts the game harder than any parody godling of my own. It's something I will never understand, but will always admire.

There was this one one online RP i was a part of for one session where we could do anything. I said, "Ill be a wookie" and just expected to be the brick. One girl, an allegedly veteran RPer, came up with some unicorn princess with a tragic rape backstory, multicolor eyes and somehow, a katana who was stronger than my wookie and was perfect at everything. The session broke up before it began when i called her out on her mary sueness and she got mad, insisting that i was jealous.

stupid and ridiculous instances aside, one player in my current group has it pretty bad. Whenever we suggest a new setting or consider building new characters, she usually just gravitates to the most awesomely powerful canon character; Song of Ice fire? "Dragon Lady." Serenity? "River"

We were building Mutants and Masterminds characters. Her concept was literally a pop star with a telekinetic "hex spheres" power set like Scarlet witch and a father who is basically Bruce Campbell from Jack of all trades.

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>>21603783

>>21603783
>male kodiak grizzly
This is fucking incredible....

>>21604005
/tg/ loves its bears
More news at 11

>>21597930

To be fair,river is most certainly a mary sue and the weakest personality on the show. The show did a good job of keeping her from doing anything; if she were function (like she is at the end of a certain crummy movie...) then it would effectively be the river show

>>21603637
After reading both Brotherhood of the storm and Angel Exterminatus, I'd go with Petra, because her daddy is awesome.

After reading Angel Exterminatus, i think Peturabo should have been the one who fortified and defended the Palace, not Dorn.

Sage for off topic.

>>21598389
>short sighted is the only flaw
>still 'very aware of her surroundings'
Not sure how that works, but okay.

One of the best pieces of advice I've heard for characters is to introduce them with their faults first, and not to have their faults just disappear over time, either.

Too often I see people's profiles filled with weaknesses or faults that are either situational, or could be good for them (temper invariably makes them great fighters, for instance). Why is it so wrong to have a character who has noticeable weaknesses and faults that don't get cured by love or ignore their weaknesses at opportune times?

Recently abandoned ship in a Shadowrun game where one player wanted to play a japanese yakuza heiress. As in, she's in line to inherit a whole 'gumi.

Who was also an enforcer for a megacorp, and wouldn't ever lie. Which included refusing to use a fake SIN ... after explaining how bad not having a SIN is when going anywhere, she "compromised" with a real SIN.

Nationally famous, privileged family name, legitimate SIN, completely ignored gear in favour of saying "She's got all the best security in her commlink, so only fuck with her if you want your brain fried!"

I wish it were a joke.

>>21604710
What about the other members of the group; were they any better?

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>>21604748
They weren't MS's, at least. It was all on the amateur / psychopath end of the amateur / psychopath / professional scale of runners. Paranoid as fuck, incompetent and denying it all the way.

The group argued infront of Mr Johnson after my character set up an encrypted channel to talk on. Everyone tried to justify not drinking or eating in a restaurant. Ms Nationally Famous threatened to kill me over a minor gift. The last thing I saw, they hired a van from a rental company to do a job in, instead of going through contacts / illegal channels.

>>21604463

If you're going to hog the spotlight, you're going to hog the spotlight. Shoehorning flaws can be just as stilted and unnatural as your average Mary Sue.

I don't bother with elaborate backstory when I roleplay. I use generic archetypes as a template and then let the character develop. That way, your character can only become as weird as the plot.

>>21598389
>selling her body to other men

So she's a tranny?

>>21598447
I'm on an RP server too, and we had a guild that was an honest-to-god all Blood Elf gay roleplaying guild. I'm not prejudiced at all, my only problem was that they were awful and contrived out the ass.

>>21604998
How many of them were yaoi fangirls?

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>>21598007

Stay away from our primarch, heretic!

>>21604985
I said nothing about adding flaws where they don't belong, just having real flaws and making sure they're actually thought-out and not ignored.

I always preferred to write a small backstory so I kept my character idea internally consistent. Nothing huge, just enough to give me direction beyond an archetype or idea. My gripe was less about that though, and more about people who write in flaws that aren't flaws, or write in no flaws at all.

"Clumsy!" and "Too nice!" are rarely actually played as flaws, and are instead played as endearing traits of the character that never bite them in the ass.

>>21605042
Too nice would actually be an interesting flaw, that sort of thing can be really infuriating.

>>21599690
Do you think a character based on Ginko would be a Mary Sue?

>>21605006
Magic 8 ball says probably all of them.

>>21605078

That's more of a quirk than a flaw. And Mary Sues love quirk.

>>21605090
I was personally thinking of people who are too nice because they have some kind of desperate fear that people might not like them. That sort of dependency makes for a real flaw, though it might be annoying to play with a character who is constantly trying to make sure you don't hate her.

>>21605082
If played well no. He doesn't really have much in the way of special abilities, he's pretty spiritually sensitive, he's got a backpack with lots of stuff, and he knows a fuckton about spirits. That's about it.

It could be easy to go overboard, and always say you have the exact solution to a problem, but that's in how you play it, not in the character itself.

Ginko is just a man who sees a bit farther into a vast and complex world, he rarely confronts anything directly and instead uses the Mushi's nature to solve the problem.

>>21597426
>I was displeased almost immediately when some people described their characters as doing things like eating ramen
HOW DARE THEY

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>>21605127
>this idea is close to my new AdEva character
mfw when

>>21605146
High Wis, good int, good Cha.

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We once had a faggot who insisted on having his tremere named Sindi Myr and played all the chronicle as if he was some chaos sorcerer or something and talking about gods and daemons. Dear god, I hate him so much.

>>21604933
>they hired a van from a rental company to do a job in, instead of going through contacts / illegal channels.
Wut.

>>21605191
please tell me you purged him. Or at least Squad Broken.

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>>21605198
He became an unstoppable munchkin and diabolarized the prince. WoD is hardcore grim.

>>21605246
God. DAMN IT. That is a huge fucking crime. And diabing the PRINCE? Boshtet should have been staked in the next fucking round. By the entire CITY. What the hell was your ST doing?

>>21605269
>Boshtet
Did you...did you seriously just use that word?

>>21605296
I run out of curses sometimes, okay? So I switch to other languages.

>>21605296
Try wang ba dan and mei tou nao de sha bi

>>21605090
You could also play that person as a complete doormat.

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>>21604710
>Real personal security number
>Will not lie
... the DM made sure this bit her in the ass before you were through, right?

>>21605375
You could, but no one ever does.

>>21605384
I would have had it come back to bite her in the ass the first time the group went out. Because its a little hard to fight back against a sniper at half a mile.

I will attempt to recreate, from memory, my GM's PC that ended up being the main focus of the campaign. It was my first legit 3.5 campaign and I was playing a wizard so I didn't really notice or care much about the imbalance of his character until later on.

6'8" 200lb Half-elf Duskblade with Red hair and Dark Black eyes (the whole eyes)

Great ability stats and a +2 spiked chain that became an epic weapon after he got a critical killing blow on a small black dragon.

We all bounced out of that campaign after repeated bullshit like the previously mentioned dragon incident.

>>21598389
>>21598365
I... I can't unsee this one. Did anyone else catch that she started stripping and selling her body at 11? Unless it's a town full of pedo's I don't think that's how it works. Most kids wouldn't even be mentally or physically capable of taking care of themselves at that age, let alone deal with the repeated trauma of... "Repeated" trauma.

Please /tg/ tell me these threads are all made up. Players and dm's don't suck this bad do they? I mean you occasionally get someone with true mental problems like big boy blue... But are Mary Sue characters that numerous? I mean I try to write my characters as normal people without any super powers or secret special characteristics. Am I alone?

((I've never played with pick up groups, pbp, or had unstable friends of friends brought into our games so ive never seen things like these))

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>>21605482
I'm sorry. I am so sorry.

>>21605082

Nah. I wouldn't describe him as having snow white hair, and one emerald eye, sporting anachronistic clothing that's never really explained, but he's pretty low key otherwise. Of course, setting is everything.

>>21605515
I said based on, not blatantly ripping off.

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Made a mary sue on purpose.
>"Tactical genius" bard who made a pact with a devil, knowing the devil would outsmart him and eventually take away the power he gave him once the mortal outlived his usefulness, he made a pact with another devil of a different faction within the infernal planes who are in a constant state of diplomatic tension and empty threats, all afraid to take action because of Asmodeous who would make anyone stupid enough to provoke a civil war disappear.

>Also make a pact with a demon so as to promote instability within the infernal planes because demons fucking hate devils and want to take over their plane.

>No fiend has direct control over my soul/contract now. For to try to invoke it in any way, would break their end of the bargain. This only applies to devils however... devils are bound by lawful alignment cosmic force that if they overtly break their own rules, it creates a paradox in their being causing their own utter annihilation.

>So now... I have all this fiendish power, bestowed upon me by piling debt ontop of debt much like nations do irl. No one wants to be "that guy" and have everything fall and take the blame. Except maybe the demon.

>The DM finds this greatly amusing. The devils now send infernal assassins to kill me, but they are not told why. Since they can not intervene against me directly, and I can take as much of their power as I want for my own as their contracts are pretty much laughable on my end.

>The demon laughs and says I'm one of the most awesome mortals he's ever met. But still conspires against me because he wants to see everything burn.

>Why do all this? Because a long time ago my great grandfather made a deal with Asmodeous, Asmodeous screwed him over, and a curse has been on my family ever sense. Don't fuck with this family Asmodeous.

Maybe not so much mary sue, as a liberal usage of Deux Ex Machinas.

>>21605534
more like Daemonium ab machina

>>21605534
This is how people should chaotic neutral. Your character sounds like a risk-taker, motivated by bitterness and massive butthurt. He cares nothing of himself, or others. But is has no desire for power, or the lust of inflicting pain on other people. Just a dick who gets shit done.

What's funny is your DM could turn this around and explain 4th edition fluff by saying somehow this all went very very wrong, and the infernal planes out-tactical geniused you. (Most likely Asmodeous knew all along) and are using you to dismantle the abyssal planes. Let the pawns of lesser devil lords fall.

>>21605526

I'm saying you can go about as far as you want in your likeness and still avoid Mary Sueness as long as you don't mess it up with 'personal touches'.

>>21605196
>>21605384
I can only assume the GM wanted this game so much, they're willing to sweep stuff like that under the rug. That, or they're getting amazing head out of this.

The game is still going.

>>21605579
Personal touches are good, power gaming personal touches, not so much.

>>21599381
Alan Moore did this right. Batman objectivist who put all skillpoints in fighting, and is a homeless, smelly, middle-aged man leeching off of Nite Owl.

A guy made a Cleric in Dark Heresy "that believed in redemption and what is right". He frequently meta gamed and was a general shit OOC and IC, ruined everyones plans and if he didnt get kicked out of the group would have probably been killed by the inquisitor for insolence.


If you are reading this helpful_comrade, we made Cort open a booby trapped door and he died. Then I stole his money.

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Got a bad one as an DMPC in my current Pathfinder game.
Starts off at level one and he's a magus.
>Cool, I've never seen one in game before, this should be neat.
He's some kind of mysterious but helpful figure with the "grace of a chelish noble". And we're not in Cheliax
>Huh... ok... I can deal with this I guess.
Later on we find out that he's apparently still pretty rich, and keeps a young female ward, who is he rescued valiantly, and who loves him completely and unconditionally.
>Small warning lights going off.
And she's a nymphomaniac.
>Warnning!
Later on we find out that after he was raised a noble, he ran off to be a bandit for many years. And became a renowned bandit lord in the River Kingdoms.
>No.
Who was so famous some random thug across the continent not only knew who he was, but was so cowed by him, he instantly believed he was who he said he was.
>No-No-No.
Finally, in a post-game conversation, we were discussing paladins as a class, for silly nerd-talk fun.
"Oh, Kayne was a Paladin too. But then he killed a guy just after he took the oath and ran off."
This was never once mentioned before and never even remotely hinted at. The murder or the paladin stuff.
>fortheloveofgodstoppleasestop
And mind you, all of this stuff took place before the game stated, and he was still level 1.

To the DM of this game, I love you dearly as a friend, and you've run some absolutely stellar games, but... dis guy... dis fuckin' guy...

I once did a drow rogue.

Only, I didn't go for ZOMG SO SPECIAL.

I went for...a typical male drow.

skulky, opportunistic, massively bitter.

I had him be suicidally homicidal to elven females based off his ritual and regular objectification at the hands of the Drow females of his city.

He died first session trying to pickpocket what turned out to be the BBEG wizzard.

Then he got (almost) raised by LOLTH HERSELF because the DM was a fucking drizzt fangirl and wanted me to be the star.

So I had him say "no" repeatedly, telling the god of his race to go get fucked.

Didn't work.


There will be more. I'm getting the campaign notes from that game. brb /tg/, with more of the Tale of Gultel the Snivelly..

>>21605857
So wait, you played an almost MS, and then the DM made you a MS? Thats fucking weak.

>>21605857
Something similar happened to me. I'd had no intention of it, but the GM's had other plans. After almost 2 TPKs, The GM decided that the surviving PCs would be made something akin to main characters, this included my second character who survived by the skin on his teeth.

I had been playing something like nameless trooper who was down on his luck but still powering through life like, well, a trooper. He was a decent cavalier but didn’t seem to fight well on his own two feet. His personal life was crap because he tended to be jealous of others’ accomplishments and his arranged wife hated the shit out of him.

But that’s kinda where the uniqueness stopped I had the dead family/revenge aspect going against me. He was relatively stubborn, thick headed, naïve and good hearted. He got PTSD’d after the 2nd almost TPK, so he became brooding. And his god-like ancestor possessed his body when he was in deep shit, causing the stats to explode. And he ended up banging his wife who was crying in the snow (It was a pity fuck, but the setting was still cliché)

>>21603783
11/10 would play

>>21605844
>named Kayne
>shocked he's a mary sue dmpc

Well that's what you get for letting one man have all that power.

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>>21603783
>"I've had enough, I'm going home and you can't stop me."

I'll need to pull some thing like this in my next campaign

>>21605878
Sorry, I don't know what MS stands for. enlighten?

>>21605857
anyways, so after about 15 RL minutes of this, she finally has Lolth stalk off in a huff. Then Eilistraee show up and praise my chara for "resisting the evils of her mother" and raises me.


I figure my drow-male who hates drow and all they stand for wouldn't mind having Eilistraee help him, so up he goes.


What followed was him receiving the "blessing of eilistraee" which equivelated to negating the con penalty and adding another 1 to my dex. at level 4. giving me 22 dex at level 4 since I'd poured all my shit into dex.


Up next is the tale of how Gultel the cowardly snivveling drow forcibly saved a city of half-elfs.

>>21605923
Dude, imagine if you got magic armor in the campaign. That shit auto-resizes itself to fit the character, so you have a bear walking around in +X magic armor. Shit would be so cash.
>>21605928
Mary Sue.

>>21605934
>>21605878

Well, I had tried to not make him a mary-sue. i was aiming for a self-destructive coward who would take cheap potshots (lethal and verbal) at other elves out of misguided hate.

>>21605905
Not shocked really, but this all came out over a few sessions.
I wanted to believe it was going to be ok. Now I know better.

>>21605934
>Bearkini armor
oh boy

>>21605928
This actually sounds amusing. A truly, truly reluctant hero, who is absolutely pissed he does anything that helps others. It's like if you were playing a video game and you save a village only to burn it down yourself.

>>21605923
That image. I must know where its from!

>>21605960
IT would be GLORIOUS

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>>21605965
I wish I knew, sorry

>>21605972
My hopes. Ruined.

>>21605928
Right, so. Gultel was now the "chosen of eilistraee" whatever the fuck that meant.

So the game continues on. Gultel continues to be a coward, stealing from and insulting various elven NPCs who were conjured up by the DM in an attempt to "rehabilitate him".


Finally, the DM has us visit this OCDNS city populated by like 95% half-elfs and 5% ruling class high elfs.

It was a "sanctuary" where "persecuted halfbreeds" could go and find a happy life.

Naturally Gultel hates this and wants to burn the whole place to the ground.

So we get escorted to the center tower, where it turns out that one of the magister-lords was an ex-priestess of Lolth who had "saw the light" and deserted.

So Gultel goes absolute batshit insane. I mean i had him just fly at this bitch dagger out mouth frothing. She hits him with a hold person and spends a fuckass long time talking about how she "empathizes with his pain" and wishes to "show him the light of compassion"


Fianlly, after it becomes apparent that Gultel is not going to cooperate with her, she flat out says that she'll make sure he never has to deal with a drow ever again (because of her 'contacts' or whatever) if he agrees to help her.


More coming up, gotta find the notes for this aprt.

>>21605965
It's from Biomega by Tsutomu Nihei .

>>21605987
Biomega - Tsutomu Nihei.
Read it if you haven't and like Blame!

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>>21605965

You're after a manga called Biomega. The character is Kozlov Leifnovich Grebnev. Have fun.

Polite sage for off topic.

>>21603916
>my entire group

We are all that guy

My BBEG's plan was to summon that /tg/-made Mary Sue, does that count?

Think about it. It's the perfect Evil plot.

>>21605482
Dimentio is one of those people who should probably go kill himself. I mean, there's escapism, and there's "I need a padded room pls and ty", and he needs that padded room.

I don't understand where people like him come from.

>>21598247
... I always tend to describe characters personalities like a doctors report. i always assumed it was just me, because of my job as a psych

>>21606157
You have an excuse. Most people do it because they read what their therapist is telling them.

Human paladin in D&D, but in its background he was half celestial, the only member alive of family of superwarriors and the chosen one to sabe the world. Always in the spotlight.
The guy played it and when he DMd that was his DMPC.


Also,in Anima BF, twins (played by the same dude) with so much superpowers and blood of so much different things i can recall. He was also trying to steal the spotlight every time, and even knowing he was the tougher and stronger, he always fleed from combat.

I always hear about DMPC's and almost every post I see complains about it. I've played a few DMPCs, but always as a supporting character. I mean, sure they had a few awesome moments, and one saved the party as a DM fiat, but I've never made them plot centric. Unless they're long lived and I make a campaign in the same setting.

>>21606002
C'mon. Tell me you're still here, anon. I want to hear more about this little shit of a drow's shenanigans and how the universe foils them.

I once had a player play a self insert vampire in Dark Ages Vampire. Beautiful, seductive, etc. you know the drill. She decided to try to mess with the follower of another player. So my other players overpowered her and dropped her into a dung pit, she didn't play with us from that point over.

Yes, this is the worst thing I've got, I am a fortunate man.

>>21605534
You... You know how wrong you are, right?

>>21606255
Ditto, I've played with small groups quite a few times and a third/fourth character has made sense and that role was usually filled with some kind of supporting DMPC depending on what the group needed. Sure there were some moments when they shone, but usually they stuck to the background and as an additional source of social interaction/conflict for the other characters.

>>21606445
Sadly I've had to make mainly casters, the group I ran the games for were REALLY into smashing shit. Kind of murderhobo almost.