>>40615049
>Works for the church.
>Said church is very against the undead.

>Just really dislikes undead

>Was molested by his necromancer uncle

>Killing undead pays well

Just a few options.

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Grizzled like?

Example:
>Tobias Manning
Undead have plagued this land for many a generation. There's good money in it. Lots of experience growing up in these here villages, fighting off the undead. Might as well make money off of something I know, right?

Boom, done, easy, medieval.

Now if you want it modern? Uh... government task force? Otherwise no. Anime as fuck.

>>40615090
>Works for the church.
>Said church is very against the undead.
>Just really dislikes undead
seems fine, sorta boring

>Was molested by his necromancer uncle
little too edgelord for me

>Killing undead pays well
I like this one

My monster hunter character from a few years ago went to check under his daughters bed for monsters one night and found one. He managed to kill it.

He left her in the care of the church and went off to try and eradicate the world from this evil.

The entire time he is a terrified, nervous wreck who is more coward than hero but does it for the sake of his kid

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>>40615049

His sister was always the favorite child. She got into a group of necromancers and disappointed her parents. Now the character hunts undead so that it will make mommy and daddy happy, despite the fact that he has no real hatred of the undead.

>>40615120
>>Was molested by his necromancer uncle
>little too edgelord for me

Can't even joke on /tg/ anymore...

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>>40615049
Like this. The hunter is just pest control. It's a dangerous job and no one appreciates the work you do, but someone's gotta do it

>>40615150
This sounds like anime edgelord bullshit.

In it for the money is the real deal.

Also, protip, your backstory can be acceptable even with some amount of "shitty anime fanfic" vibes if you make your character a realistic person, like a middle-aged balding church devotee with bad teeth and dirty fingernails, instead of some super-cool attractive sexy flashy master-race lolbadass with a fucking katana.

>>40615049
A skeleton stole his teddy bear. Now he hunts the land looking for that asshole skeleton. It's kind of hard to tell them apart, though.

>>40615049
Kind of like a Witcher books and games, maybe?

You just kill monsters for money.

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>>40615224

>>40615049

>Because the dead are meant to stay dead and he wants the world to stay in tune with his idea of how things should be.

>>40615224
It was a joke holy shit. >>40615157 was right.

>>40615257
Well do better on your sarcasm. >>40615157 actually sounded like a joke.

>>40615049
>>40615224

A Grizzled, pragmatic and jaded older man is one of the most overused clichees of the 21st century.
Like babbies first non-anime character

try something more innovative

>>40615249
>Darkblade Evilbane and his grandson Greg Evilbane take on a new case
>Back in my day we never came in through the door. It was stepping mysteriously out of the shadows, or nothing. You kids have no idea how easy you have it.

>>40615274
Mummy and daddy don't love me enough sounded like a joke to me

>>40615049
>village was wiped out by undead
>hunts undead to prevent others from suffering the same fate

or

>was once a mercenary, now during peacetime he hunts undead for a living since it pays well and is less dangerous if you know what you're doing

or

>is an alchemist/professor/wizard/something
>studies undead in order to find a way to stop undead from appearing, to bring the dead back to life for real, or to gain a better understanding of life and death
>hunting them is the best and cheapest way to acquire specimens for study

or

>is a minor lord in some backwater shithole with skelly problems
>leads hunting parties around his local fief to eradicate undead and keep the peace
>eventually hopes to be named the commander of the royal hunt for his distinguished bravery

>>40615049
When the dead rise it means that there's a burst of negative energy somewhere near. Those bursts can happen naturally or be caused by strong human emotions, such as fear, rage or extreme pain. The necromancers are specially trained people who uphold the natural order, watching over the dead and punishing those who were responsible for the bursts.

>>40615049
I was thinking of making a character who is a cleric of a sort of funerary cult. One of their main purposes is helping the souls of the unquiet dead to pass on so they can be at peace rather than linger in a tormented state; along with dealing with ghosts, they believe that a soul whose body exists as a corporeal undead can never pass on, so they destroy them whenever possible as an act of mercy.
I don't watch enough anime or read fanfiction thereof so I don't know if this is how it works in those.

>>40615288
How about a nervous little middle management type? He's a celestial bureaucrat who's been put in charge of the Mortality account.

>Oh, dammit. These numbers aren't adding up. There are way too many of these bipod things walking around upright. It's not jiving with the books. I'm in such deep shit...

>>40615049
>character is an engineer
>kicked out of his school for having radical ideas
>he believes that undead can be used as a source of infinite energy
>they don't need to eat or drink anything and can move anyway
>devises various machines and contraptions to harness the infinite energy of undead, treadmills, wheels, turbines, etc.
>all shot down by the orthodox establishment
>he gathers a party of hunters and warriors and turns to undead wrangling, capturing as many undead as he can to build the world's first Skeleton Computer to show the academia that he's better than them

>>40615049
When he was a kid he got lost in a graveyard and got the ever loving shit scared out of him (literally and figuratively) by his asshole brother who was pretending to be a zombie and he still hasn't let it go, so he beats the shit out of undead to make himself feel better.

>>40615224
>super ugly = realistic

I'm sorry you've born with a face only a mother could love, but that doesn't excuse going from one extreme to the other.

>Undead pervert the natural cycle of life and death.

Mostly a druid or cleric reasoning but could work for anyone really.

>>40615337
thats pretty funny

>>40615224
How is that edgy anime bullshit? An inferiority complex derived from his parents picking favorites is an interesting and unique character flaw.

Haversham T. Pertwiller is an investigator of the strange and unusual. Of an overeager, same might say mildly nervous disposition, he is an odd duck among the local gentry. A dedicated amateur taxidermist, he believes that 'the dead should be in the ground or stuffed and mounted for display'. In between his bouts of the odd undead monster hunting he presents lectures on the strange creatures of Darkest Africa and the Antipodes for the local University.

His lectures only see sporadic attendance.

Until he can get his planned book 'The Odd Properties of Platypus Venom' published or be granted tenure by the university, he relies mostly on his dual position as undead slayer and taxidermist to pay the bills. The taxidermy pays marginally better but the Undead slaying gets him out of the house.

>>40615049
people don't plan that much about what they end up doing. often it's just doing a job one time and it becoming routine.

also seriously undead spook people out. if they are around, someone will want them not to be.

>>40615224
>middle-aged balding church devotee with bad teeth and dirty fingernails
Anon, if your character is not Mary Sue it doesn't mean he's good. What you described can be good if played well, but it can also turn into the exact opposite. Also, there are good dramatic anime around, don't you know? Stop being such a contrarian.

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>>40615049
>At first I was in an elite mercenary unit, but then some stuff happened and we went separate ways
>Turns out vampires are real! I learned this from old man Gehram, right before he died.
>So I guess I might as well go fight vampires, put my skills of violence to good use. Public good, morally okay, pays the bills, etc.
>also I am a catgirl

Actually just read up the backstory for Solomon Kane, and do more or less that.

>>40615337
>Okay, if we could just get everyone into two lines; not dead, and probably dead.
>Oh, c'mon Archlich Hyperion I see you trying to planeshift into the other line. Just work with me, guys?
>Um, Granny Tucker why don't you just take a minute or two before deciding, no rush. A-heh.

>>40615408
>if they are around, someone will want them not to be.
Sounds like neckbeards. Think I could get a job as a neckbeard shoo-er?

>>40615456
Then you would have to be around neckbeards....

>>40615456
That job is only open to women, and they prefer the term Neckbeard Prevention Specialist.

>>40615337
>Level 30 Bureaumancer

>>40615423
>Solomon Kane
That nigga does not fuck around.

>>40615049

Main character has a weird fetish for undead things that arose out of his/her time spent in religious schooling.

Brought up as the righteous paladin type, the character vehemently opposes the existence of undead in the world. Except he/she is vigorously aroused by the creatures.

Said main character dutifully goes about cleansing the world of skeleton slime, but does so while immensely turned on. I'm talking boner obvious through plate armor levels of hot for Satan.

Still does his/her duty, receives the blessing of their god to relieve their desires, can't get it up with brothel wenches.

Hilariousness ensues.

>>40615049
He fucked one. Rotten cunt split on him, now he's out for revenge.

>>40615496
>Rotten cunt split on him
I get it

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>>40615049

That's easy. Make him a duck.

>>40615274
Hey, yeah, sup.
I'm the guy that posted >>40615090

The idea was to nestle it into a few other ideas, for the shock value.

However, I am far to lazy to come up with a sizeable number of ideas.

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>>40615049
Shaolin who decides that undead profane the cycle of life and death. Doesn't hate them, just seeks to return them to their proper balance because they are already dead

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>>40615525

Or really, any kind of Humakti, but of course Durulz Humakti are the best.

>Kills for sport: Man is the most dangerous game yeah? So undead folks gotta be like 3rd or something ... right?

>Kills for an outlet: Yeah i know ive got homicidal tendencies, but hey now its not like im killing anyone really, just laying them back to rest.

>Kills for work: Did you know that bone meal works as great fertilizer AND as a nutriotional boost for the entire family? Plus you can always use one of these skulls as a fancy goblet.

>Kills for knowledge:Its pretty interesting to see how bone and flesh are damaged under deferent types of stress, and it helps me understand how to treat such injuries in the living.

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>>40615049

My witchhunter type character was raised religious and then was forced to fight alongside undead since the king thought them a great resource. Free labor as it were.

He came to grow a strong disdain for undead and after vampires killed his family, he now roams the land taking down undead and those who consort with dark necromancy.

A Soldier returning from war needs a profitable job, turns out hunting undead lets him kill shit and feed his family

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>>40615552

Ever see this?

>>40615049
I... Yes?
How is this even a question?

>>40615049
Hunts the undead, just not to destroy them. They are a very enthusiastic necrophiliac, but prefers the corpses to be moving.

>>40615249
That's not even a katana....

>>40615297
That's a real motivator that a large percentage of people suffer from...? It's not an active theme in their thoughts or anything, but it's a definite drive for some people, especially those with "favored siblings."

>>40615432
>Um, Granny Tucker why don't you just take a minute or two before deciding, no rush. A-heh.
Damnit I laughed.

>>40615456
Booth girls already exist.

>>40615049
I'm playing a 5e ranger who hunts monstrosities, undead, and all general "non-humanoid evil" because that's what his family does. It's not edgy, he doesn't make a huge deal out of it, it's his job as a member of that family. Which, by the way, are all still alive and well, not slaughtered to fuel a vengeance boner.

His backstory might be a little groan-worthy though. I'm sure /tg/ will think so. In his backstory he died when the estate came under attack and his family, being rich ass nobles, brought him back with one of the cheaper resurrections so he'd always have the scars to remind himself of the day he fucked up. His throat was torn out and the unspecified monstrosities ate a hole into his back, so he stays covered up with clothing and a scarf. Traveled to the fledgling frontier town (quest hub) as a sort of vacation to get him out of the house where he died, and that's where the game started for him.

>Side question
In a world where resurrection is available, how do you feel about it being a part of the backstory? I think it could add flavor and interesting motivations, like paying back whoever ressed the character, or giving them a reason to be traveling on a redemption quest. Maybe hunting down whoever killed them.

Gravedigger who was fired after a necromancer raising undead caused their supervisor to think they were slacking off the job.

Won't rest until they have personally buried every skeleton again with their enchanted shovel.

I always wanted to play the grave digger/cemetery custodian undead slayer. Sometimes you just gotta put them back in their graves.

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>>40615625

That Guy, everybody!

What if the hunter was a wizard who had a Necromancer for a roommate all through wizarding school? the roommate was always talking about "muh undead egalitarian society" so after graduating the wizard pretty much decided to destroy any undead he could find to spite the necromancer

>>40615660
>Sometimes you just gotta put them back in their graves
That made me think of an OCD undead hunter, going around slaying undead because a skeleton or zombie that's moving around instead of sitting still triggers the fuck out of him.

>>40615337
>So then I said "Listen, I don't care if you're the immortal god emperor of ancient Estancia, if you don't have form DD 4435 I can't renew your Human Sacrifice license."

>Then what hap- oh shit, it's Hades. Look busy.

>Heya, boss. Just throughputting some non-compliant soul matrices to facilitate efficient stygian out processing. We had another musician down here looking for his wife, I referred him to the Questing Department. Nice tie, by the way. Black. Can't go wrong with black.

>>40615049
>Guy works in a cemetery, digging graves
>Takes pride in his work
>Undead crawling out of his graves makes his cemetery and performance look like absolute shit "Why aren't you burying them properly. How are they getting out all the time?" and such
>Hates undead with a passion.
>Now hunts them and returns them to the grave, for good.

>>40615662
Someone has to be.

>>40615049

You got plenty of choices.

>Typical tragic story of undead killing family/village/kingdom and hunts them with a vengeance.
>Church inquisitor who hunts to stop the undead menace versus a researcher who hunts to try to recreate controllable undead for honorable purposes.
>Mercenary who is in it for the money.
>Reformed mass murderer who the country uses to fight the undead, nice guy despite the constant bloodlust.
>Rich and bored noble who only hunts giant abominations of undead for sport.

>>40615647
I like the potential for an internal conflict about the character being undead due to having been revived. Probably doesn't count in your setting, but hey it's there.

>>40615224
I like this as a secretive hidden motive. Like they're all like, "Nah, I'm just good at it," but really Suzie just had to fuck everything up with that grimoire, didn't she?

>>40615049

>character is really old and might die soon, every day is a gift
>saw all of his friends die, come back and attack their funeral processions
>character just wants to die in peace and not come back as a undead
>so he hunts the source of this undead scourge, to have his rightful rest and spare others from this fate

>>40615554
>>Kills for work: Did you know that bone meal works as great fertilizer AND as a nutriotional boost for the entire family?

Great, now I'm imagining a farmer who hunts undead to fertilize his prize heirloom tomatoes.

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>>40615049
Amethyst College from Warhammer Fantasy. They study necromancy to keep the dead dead.

>>40615120
>>Killing undead pays well
>I like this one

Essentially you'll enjoy The Witcher.

Geralt never takes jobs for free, for the most part.

>>40615775
By the Nine she's just such a cunt. Then again I never did like any of the Daedra.

>>40615807

She's arguably the only "good" daedra.

>>40615819
I don't remember Azura doing anything too bad
>>40615793
I love the world of the witcher books and how it feels.

>>40615819
No, she's just the least blatantly evil Daedra. Which is like saying someone's the skinniest kid at fat camp.

>>40615660
>My name is Frederick Digger
>I am 63 years old
>I died yesterday
>Today I've just about relearned how to move
>Well, my body has
>I stopped thinking of the bodies as the people they used to belong to awhile ago. Made it easier to put them down when they got back up. They do that around here, if that wasn't obvious already. I've asked all the bards who come through, all the mercenaries, the traders, the missionaries, everyone who travels and happened to stop in at the pub when I was grabbing something hot to eat. Nowhere in the world do the dead just get up and walk about except for here. I don't know why. Didn't matter to me to find out, so long as I was able to take care of them. Which I was, right up until I slipped on a bit of ice yesterday and knocked myself out.
>Which brings me back to what I'm doing. Well, again, my body. It's surprisingly hard to disassociate myself with the bag of meat I was in control of for 63 years. My body is trying to get up. It's half frozen, which is probably why I died. I can feel the hands creaking as they try to move, but they're frozen in place, gripping the shovel. I kept hold of the shovel throughout the accident; it's served me well.
>Sometime in the next week or so someone will come to check on me, see why I haven't been down to the pub. Or someone will die, and they'll come to tell me to warm up the antechamber of the small crypt so we can store the body in the main area until the ground's thawed enough to dig a grave. They'll find my frozen body, and someone else will have to figure out what's clogged the chimney to the fireplace so they can light a fire without choking to death on the smoke. Then they'll slide me into the crypt proper. They'll probably be respectful. It's going to be interesting hearing what they have to say. I never expected to be around to hear it.

I am sorry for the off topic, but I can't resist.

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Protecting the innocent from evil is reason enough!

>>40615850
>I don't remember Azura doing anything too bad

What about cursing an entire race of elves with grey skin because three twats became sorta-gods?

more reasons

>character is a retired old man with nothing better to do

>character has a thing for the undead, but gets upset when they bite

>character wants likes to lay out the smackdown, and slaying the undead is a way to not go to prison doing it

>they were taught as a child to slay any undead they come across, so that's what they do

>they are a necromancer and absorb energies from the undead they slay in hopes to one day ascend into lichdom

>>40615863
>Life will go on without me. Until spring. Whoever they get to fill my position will come up the hill to get to work hacking a hole out of the semi-thawed ground to stuff my body into before the crypt warms up and becomes useless. Always have to be quick about that, don't want the bodies to rot.
>But they won't know about the second part of my annual spring duties. When the ground thaws and becomes movable again the dead bodies thaw along with it. The first couple weeks of spring are my busiest; patrolling all the time, whacking the bodies that come boring out of the ground, reburying the damn things.
>I shudder to think what will happen when the new guy comes along and finds his tenants aren't nearly as good as he expected. Maybe he'll go looking for them, and they'll kill him. More likely he'll come through the gate and see one right away, and run to the village to scream about the walking dead. I'm not sure how this is going to play out. Maybe me slipping will actually be the end of the world as the undead menace goes out of control. Probably not, but it's an entertaining thought.
>Being stuck in a body I can no longer control is bound to be boring, I'm going to need all the entertaining thoughts I can muster.
>Maybe I won't be as bored when Spring rolls around.

>>40615049
> be paladin
> holy as fuck
> 420smitenerrydayy'all
> have beautiful wife
> gonna make some paladin babies to continue the smiten
> one year later
> smite the wrong lich
> lich comes back and kills wife
> come home and wife is dead
> aw shiiiiet
> wait she's moving
> detect evil on that bitch
> aw shiiiiet
> smite evil
> fall as a paladin because reasons
> dedicate life to fucking up undead
> mfw killing my wife also killed me inside
> mfw when my shell of a body is only motivated by the rage that keeps my sword arm strong
> mfw no face
........
> mfw when I realize this is the plot to dante's inferno
> aww shiiiiiet

>>40615863
>I died yesterday
Already lost...

>>40615863
>>40615941
I love random writefag posts.
Thanks, anon.

>>40615882
For killing Nerevar and that shit, I'd say they got off pretty easy

>>40615997
The tribunal did, considering they just bullshited their skin color back. You've gotta admit it's a dick move to curse an entire race of people for something they'd actually object to if they knew about it. Fuck, the ashlanders even had grey skin. What the fuck, Azura?

>>40615882

They weren't just "three twats" though, they were the religious and political leaders of the Chimer, who were supposed to be the best of them. And turned out to be dicks who went back on their promise to Azura.

>>40616031
>they just bullshited their skin color back

No, they didn't. Almalexia went through the deification process first, and her skin stayed golden because Azura couldn't touch her anymore. Vivec was in the middle of being transformed when the curse hit the Chimer, and so he's half gold, half ashen. Sotha Sil was all ash, right? I forget.

>>40615049
> A character that used to be a lich but was revived by a cleric. But he's cursed, so now he's only half-alive. He has to stop his body from rotting by casting positive energy on himself. (Hurts like a bitch though because half-dead) kills undead to help feed the disgust he feels toward his undead half.


> ghoul who dual-wields katanas, one with positive energy, the other with negative energy. Basically a smite evil and a smite good katana. Hate undead because reasons, hate the living because dead. Be angsty.


> Be paladin, dual wields a hammer and a long bow. Have celestial ancestry so have a secret angel half that nobody can see. Hit stuff with hammer while ethereal body shoots the bow.

>Be a teenager with family problems. had a fight with your dad and ran away from home. When you come back a lich had overrun by undead. Everythings dead. Rage so hard that you awaken deep demonic blood within your body. Now you're a half-demon who can't die. Sole goal os to avenge your famiry. Call yourself dante.

>>40616031
If I remember, the grey skin thing just happened for some Dwemer related reason, and Azura went all "This is my vengeance for your betrayal!" to claim credit and to look super badass.

>>40615949
...I hope you read on and understood?

>>40615975
Welcome. The post I originally linked made me think of a caretaker to the only undead infested graveyard in the world. It's not a huge deal to him, and no one knows about it. And then I thought about what would happen if he died before proving it to someone for whatever reason. And then I laughed.

>>40616056
I think Sotha Sil was gold. It's been a while since I played it, and you only see him once. I always thought Vivec was half and half because of that hermaphrodite CHIM thing he had going on.

>>40616033
She still could have handled it a bit better. How about just go and tell someone what was going on? But that would get in the way of a multi generational reincarnation based revenge plot, with is something a totally cool not-a-dick person would do.

>>40616087
Man, how passive aggressive. I bet she hung around the tribunal's palaces and every time they stubbed their toe or something she'd burst out of a closet and shout "REVEL IN YOUR SUFFERING FOR THOU HAST MADE A POOOOOWERFUL ENEMY"

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>>40615049
No. It's literally impossible. You thus should make it a big joke.

>Character was an orphan
>Promised to marry the various orphanage girls
>Got adopted and forgot his promise
>On his wedding night, the orphanage girls attack
>They dismember his bride and steal her parts
>Now he must defeat his sexy childhood friends while his fiancee's ghost constantly tries to mess with him

>>40616363
I...

Would watch that in an animu format

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>>40615049
>man of science/magicscience
>obsessed with obtaining eternal life
>kills undead to dissect and study them to unveil their secrets

Made for some fun times.

Yes. The first step would be to stop watching and being inspired by anime.

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>>40616363


This >>40616420
Could be the best worst anime ever.

>>40615049

>Violent rage that is irrepressible
>Although you were raised a pacifist trained in martial arts as a form of self mastery
>Killing undead is a loophole to your pacifistic vows

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This whole book is about a ghost hunter and his motivations.

>>40616363
Sounds like a halarious harem anime.
It needs to be a game.

And with an eroge expansion where instead of fighting your childhood friends you instead sex them. Each one gives you part to your wife-to-be. Each one is exorcised after the sex. Make them all have atypical personalities (tsune, loli, etc) until you have all the parts. But what you don't know is that your bride to be is actually a yandere. This leads to the second game where you have to sex preists to exorcise your lich wife.

>>40616438
>>40616420
okay guise break open your piggy banks, we're gonna need the shekels to get this off the ground

>>40616363
Holy shit this is a grand idea

This is for a zombie-apocalypse kind of 'undead', though i suppose it could work in fantasy depending on how your played it.

After survivors of the outbreak found places of safety in settlements, the better-off of them turned their minds to mourning the loved ones they were forced to run from.
Enter our character, the Undertaker. He takes contracts to track down, cleanly kill, and return particular zombies. His challenge is killing the zombies without causing visible damage, or as little as possible.

>>40616363
>thread about making an idea not an animu
>someone posts this idea
>everyone now concurs this should be an animu.

Guys...

>>40616495
You can't be wear you are and expect such things not to happen.

>>40616495

You know those kids who shamelessly carried around hentai novels around during school?

Yeah. That's /TG/

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>>40615341
and that is an interesting campaign premise

>>40615149
>went off to try and eradicate the world from this evil.
That is not the call I would have made but okay

The kind of people who are going to take up the incredibly risky act of combat in fantasy settings are all going to have a lot of similar traits.

Having both your parents killed and raped by skeletons is only as bad as you play it.

Rise above shitty memes and just do a good job roleplaying.

The undead will suffer eternally until they are freed? The necromancer tortures their soul whilst they are still 'alive', so me, being the good Samaritan I am, kills them for a living.

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>Necromancy has become common
>Undead are now just a part of everyday life
>Neighbor made a fortune by selling perfume to cover up the rotten smell
>He constantly flaunts his new wealth
>Wife won't stop nagging me over it
>Decide to wipe out the undead so they'll all shut up and leave me to my potato farming

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>>40615049
steal anti mages back story from dota 2 and just add undead

>Undead work for nothing so they keep taking our jobs!
>Their smell keeps driving down our property prices!
>Those cissy ass vampires keep taking our women!
>Join the Life Liberation League and send theme boneheads back to their own land, the graveyard!

Every tavern it's the same. I try to get a decent drink, a meal, maybe a warm place for the night. Every one of them, there's some sad sap or another goin on about how someone he loved died to an undead. Or worse yet, became an undead. Well I ain't got love for anyone. not even myself. But people pay good coin for me to kill bandits. They'll pay me even better if I kill them dead things. Suppose I have a head start, since I been hearing every tail out there. Might give me an edge when it comes to killin them things.

Hell, why not? Dieing to a bite ain't no worse than some bastard with a dagger an a fetish for slow deaths. And this way, no guard gonna ask questions 'bout who I kill.

>>40615224
That's just being so super-afraid of being called one extreme of the spectrum that you jump to the other extreme.

It's the same reason why the "Yes, I added you because you're a female gamer, 'tis an awesome thing to see!" pasta is so cringy, it's someone trying to act all self-aware and grown-up while completely missing the point.

Just make a character you and your group are comfortable with and that fits the setting you're playing. I know you're probably a teenager, but no matter how insecure you are, just don't be so afraid of labels and don't dramatize things until you start being afraid of resembling ridiculous stereotypes.

Just have fun.

>Dude wants a cute ghost girl gf
>Undead dudes totally cockblocking him out of jealousy, need to be slain
>Undead hags are not sexy and also need slaying
>Dude eventually gets one ghost girl gf and decides, nah, harem time. Unlimited ghost works.

Bam, perma-adventure.

>>40615854
I wouldn't consider many of the Daedra to be actually evil. Cuntbags like Molag Bal are evil, but most of the other Daedra are just assholes.
And half of the Aedra are assholes as well, so there's that to consider.

>>40619762
I add female gamers because I'd rather have a female voice in my ear screaming obscenities and calling people gay than a male one.

It's kind of funny how he treats it like a chemical equation though. "If I make the character less awesome, I can balance out the backstory having too much awesome!"

>>40615049
vanilla cleric

Once he got spooked by a skeleton. Since that day, he has despised the undead.

>>40615049
Check the lore about the Diablo II necromancer class.

>he happens to be a member of an organisation that hunts the undead
there you go

>>40615191
This is a decent idea. Could almost make like a family business. Father and Grandfather were both in the undead killing business, maybe even going back further. Maybe there was some tragic, edgelord reason great, great grandpa got into it, but now its just a job.

>>40615049
Make it like pokemon, but spooky.

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>like pokemon but spooky

Got you covered

>>40615049
A kindhearted cleric ex-slave who was taken in by the church when he was on the run, and simply wishes to help others because he loves his religion.

>>40615049
If you think that a character type as basic as an undead hunter automatically sounds anime, then that is a result of your own media bias and I feel truly sorry for you

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>>40618149
Would you risk letting there be monsters under your daughter's bed ever again?
WOULD YOU LET YOUR DAUGHTER SLEEP ON THE FLOOR?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9We2XsVZfc

>>40615049
Skelies are infused with the darkest of mayjicks. Dark magic is addictive. You do the math.

He "decided" to hunt the undead during an afternoon full of poor decisions, one of which was snorting some reanimated skullington's ground up femur. If he goes three days without a fix, he starts sweating and shaking and firing off lightning bolts because everybody's out to get him and it feels so good to have the magic in his veins he just can't stop casting and now everything is on fire or sprouting tentacles shit there's the guards and an anti-mage team and he's not gonna go quietly you fucking bastards!

>>40615049
they're undead.
they're the fucking undead.
WHAT FUCKING EXCUSE DO YOU NEED?

>>40615049
A necromancer raised a bunch of undead in the middle of his field which ruined his potatoes and ended up killing his goat. Now he just has a grudge against undead and messes with them out of spite.

>>40615049
>be peasant scum on a battlefield.
>fighting's over, dead men everywhere.
>looting corpses because not like you have things otherwise
>see someone else moving around. Assume someone else who had the same idea
>after he rises from the corpse he's hunched over, a man with only half a skull rises, hissing and spitting, but obeying the necromancer
>being in the presence of that dark magic, and seeing that horrible thing, panic and backstab the necromancer, the corpse falls back down
>realize you were no better, stealing the livelihoods of the dead men.
>leave what you have there, head back to your hovel, take your sharpest knife and fashion wooden armor out of a barrel
>travel the land acting on your calling: putting down the undead and preserving the honorable memory of those you once defiled.

This thread kind of makes me want to make an undead hunter character with the most ridiculously over the top depressing backstory of all time. Family deaths, betrayals, torture, maybe his lover was raised by his arc-nemesis, or his lover turned out to BE his arc-nemesis. An undead troll raped his dog. His cat chocked on his goldfish, then turned undead, then ate his pet rat.

How bad could we make it?

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>>40616571
damn it

>>40615049
knight/Character buried his wife who died of a pestilance.

A few days later when character was bringing flowers to the grave his wife rose up and attacks him.

He kills the wife and finds out that a necromancer/lich rose her up as an attempt to kill him. He slayed the lich but could not destroy/find the phylactery.

The lich tells him that one day, the knights skeleton will his slave like all others.

Horrified, the knight realises that so long as he has a skeleton, he is in danger of becoming undead.

He seeks a way to become immune to becoming undead. Or die-undie-and die again trying.

>>40615049
Undead are a problem, destroy undead.

The character doesn't have to have some backstory reason to think undead are a bad thing. They could have any random backstory and at the point they become a fighter and undead turn up, it's reasonable that they would want to destroy said undead.

>>40615049

Play it like a cop drama,

Deputy Inquisitor Harding, Baulders Gate Paladin Department, undead division.

Start ever sentence with "THIS IS DEPUTY INQUISITOR HARDING OF THE BGPD UNDEAD SQUAD, STOP IN THE NAME OF DIVINE LAW!"

Then read them their Mystra rights.

>>40616495
Stop it Asmodai. YOU NEVER LIKED FUN TO BEGIN WITH!

>>40618264
>shut up and leave me to my potato farming
pic related

>>40615316
>be farmer
>loose kids to a fever
>wife is wrecked
>spents her time grieving
>kids buried
>wife still cries every night
>kids come back as undead, powered by their mommies tears.
>have to use my shovel to put my own kids back into the grave
>necromancers come
>fined for wifes grieve

>>40619143
His backstory already contains undead.
http://www.dota2.com/hero/Anti-Mage/

>murderhobo wants fun guilt-free violence.

Problem solved, if undead are 100% evil in your setting or at least perceived to be.

>>40615227
Couldn't he just look for the one skeleton with a teddy bear?

Checkmate.

>>40625125
/thread

>>40615423
Played any Bloodborne, recently?

[Attention: 40k]

Sorceror Ammarth of the Thousand Sons. Promised great knowledge by a Lord of Change in case he finds a way to bind Nurgle's Rot or the Plague of Undeath to Tzeentch's will. Chases nurglete plague fleets around, capturing and studying any undead left behind by the invasions. Too bad his Rubric Marines have to incinerate a good measure of them in process, though.

Why does his backstory even need to involve the undead very much? If undead exist in a setting and are bad enough to actually need hunting then he doesn't need much of a reason besides "I'm a good warrior and I need a job".

Seriously, man, it's just a job.

Could I just play some asshole who got off his butt one day and decided 'welp, time to kill all the undead'?

Guy gets bored, decides killing the undead would be a better hobby than collecting rocks, kills things

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>>40615049

killing skeletons gives him a boner

>>40615049
>is there ANY way to write a backstory for a character that hunts the undead without it reading like shitty anime fanfiction?


PC's family were the caretakers of a graveyard in a large city. PC grew up with some bodies digging back out of their graves sometimes.. And.....they fucking stank. They oozed drippy pus and shit. They smelled horrible, they killed his pet cat, they're fucking gross to look at. So, he made a deal with a wizard/merchant who pays him a fair price for killing something he hates, and harvesting their eyes/hair/bones/other.

>>40615049
a character should not be hunting undead in there backstory if there level 1

>>40615120
the church and just really hates undead ones are perfect it stops retarded backstorys

Guy serves with a undead pest control company think orkin Pest control.

Guy decides to freelance and just handles them in the most safe and inexpensive manner possible like a orkin pest control man, joins party and now continues his job and has little experience dealing with living extermination.

Also its gonna be a regular guy, with a mace who is kind of dirty, and has a dumb belt of tools. Like a pest control tradesman.

>>40631608
>Guy serves with a undead pest control company think orkin Pest control.
> Guy decides to freelance and just handles them in the most safe and inexpensive manner possible like a orkin pest control man, joins party and now continues his job and has little experience dealing with living extermination.


Now the guys at Orkin are pissed because he's underbidding them on jobs. The leader of Orkin is actually a (insert evil class here), and is going to get even with the PC for all the business he's lost.

>>40631654
Sounds like the party is in for a bad time dealing with poisonous gasses, and traps.

>>40631654
>Now the guys at Orkin are pissed because he's underbidding them on jobs

"We trained you and gave you the experience you needed to kill undead, and you repay us by leaving the company, and using what we taught you to under bid us? Now we're gonna kill you and your new friends..... madface.jpg"

>>40631694
>Sounds like the party is in for a bad time dealing with poisonous gasses, and traps.

True.

> without it reading like shitty anime fanfiction?

We took care of that problem tho.

>>40615049
They are undead themselves. The Church of the Old Ways has the only burial ritual that doesn't result in zombies. Most people cremate, but some still follow the Old Ways. Now the Priests of the Old Ways have resurrected one of their own from his Holy Crypt. He will walk the land, smiting these blasphemous insults to his Faith. When his work is done, the Queen of All Secrets will call him home, and he will slumber until he is needed again.

>>40615049
Undead hunt him.

He's been run out of a few towns already, trying to trick them into paying him to slay the undead he himself lured into town.

Undead hunt him because he's just unlucky that way. Who can blame him for trying to earn a living at it?

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What about a character who is deathly afraid of being raised from the dead, so he wants to kill as many necromancers as possible before he dies?

>>40615150
It could work, so long as you never outright said this and only alluded to it over a long period of time

>>40615395
I like this one. I get the feeling he would be an impulsive collector of things

>>40615049
The character discovered he/she's a necrophile and the undead is his/her fetish.

>>40631608
i want orkin viral marketing to leave

When he was a kid, some of his close family members fell ill and slowly died from some disease. They only found peace and freedom from suffering when they finally died. It's fair to say the experience traumatized him a fair bit. To him, his family members dying meant that they could finally rest and find peace in the afterlife. The undead get no such rest, and that makes him really fucking angry.

>>40632117
He is insistent on being cremated or being buried properly should he die (lead coffin that's welded shut, cemetery with a guard, coffin encased in iron bars, etc.)

>>40615049
>Hates old people.
>They take forever to die.
>Fucking undead old people.
>Fuck their long lives.

>>40633000
I can't decide if it would be better to play this as a member of a race with short life spans, or long lived like an elf.

>>40615049
How about this (this is actually a character of mine): a knight dying of a magical leprosy who hates the idea of dying of his illness and would rather die on the battlefield. He knows that when he dies, he will become a ghoul; and hunts undead to bring final rest to those it was denied to, in the hope that one day he would be allowed his rest at the hands of someone else.

>>40615049

>little brother is killed and returned as an undead by a necromancer
>you were on the team to kick the shit out of said necromancer
>since you start the current campaign at level 1 or something, you weren't a super badass and only slightly helped as a level 0 villager
>however, you did end up facing your undead little brother
>with tears and snot streaming down you face and chin, you strike down your undead little brother
>team that took down necromancer is traveling ragtag group of warriors who specifically hunt undead and necromancers
>you realize that necromancers aren't as rare as you thought and that they can't be allowed to sic the bodies of former loved ones on their living loved ones
>you join the lovable ragtag group of undead killers
>1-2 years later, you are now a level 1 Fighter/Paladin/Rogue/Whatever
>you wear his old scarf he wore before he died / you have a pendent with a picture of him / you have a little doodle he drew, specially for his awesome big bro he loves so much
>you do what you do so others don't have to be put into such difficult spots

>>40633773

It's basically like being an American and joining the military after 9/11 kinda. It's passable, it works.

>>40615049
>Former Necromancer/Lich who decided to retire from his job and start a new career.
>Used to be into the Undead like an autistic fanboy.
>Now he hunts the undead because one day he got sick of having to deal with the mess that the undead causes.
>He is okay with the big messes that come with the job of Necromancy and Undead things like a Undead Scourge besieging a village or plaguing a village.
>He hates them because they cramped out his daily routine.
>He used to be okay with the constant angst and bitching from the souls powering those skellies to the key of moaning and inhuman grumbling, but now it keeps him from getting his beauty sleep
>He once was okay with the unsanitary lifestyle the job required in order for the Necromancy to work, but now he hates it because he couldn't eat his favorite dessert cheesecake because the ambient aura of pestilence kept making the cake expire before he could even finish his 4th bite.
>And most of all, he hated the constant detachment of skelly #429's right arm at the most inopportune moments. It ruined his chances of getting engaged to a girl who was into necromancy by detaching it over the river while holding the ring, it was responsible for his non-existent left pinky toe when it detached while holding a warhammer when he was doing dungeon renovations, and worst of all, it burned all the toilet paper he had stored by dropping the torch it was holding when skelly #429 was ordered to fetch a roll in the middle of the night.

>>40615224
>In it for the money is the real deal.
>Also, protip, your backstory can be acceptable even with some amount of "shitty anime fanfic" vibes if you make your character a realistic person, like a middle-aged balding church devotee with bad teeth and dirty fingernails, instead of some super-cool attractive sexy flashy master-race lolbadass with a fucking katana.
look, if you want to make a the witcher thread, make a witcher thread, but don't shit on folks just cause they have an idea

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>>40616571
>/TG/

>Be paladin
>Be adressed by >>40615432 this guy, asking for help sorting people out
>Proceed to have relationship similar yo Hero Yoshihiko and the buddha

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>>40615049

Reluctantly?

Your character has always been motivated by fame more than money, or anything else, they want their name up in lights.

When they were first setting out as an adventurer, they were hired on by a mighty Paladin to slay a Necromancer that was plaguing a local village.

The Paladin did most of the heavy lifting and your character spent most of their time trying not to die.

When the Necromancer was dead the Paladin heaped praise on the Character, exaggerating your every action until you were the hero and he was merely your side kick.

You loved it, soaking up the praise and fame the locals were heaping on you, until some of his left over minions started raiding farms.
The paladin was long gone, off to fight other battles, so the people turned to their hero...

Suddenly you realised, the paladins plan, you had to help these people, or admit that you were a fake!
You were bound by your love of the spotlight to protect the world from the undead, you know that one day you'll reach a point when you can retire, but until then, you'll slog it out with these undead pricks like a 9-5

>An old and prolific family of executioners branch out into grave-digging and funeral rights after a nasty outbreak of the undead, so that they can still take pride in ending enemies of the state
>Everything is fine at first, but the branches start running into very serious problems not solved with the edge of a shovel or an axe
>Headstones are disturbed despite their best efforts, creeping things go bump in the night, Uncle Vlad suddenly gets very pale and won't go out into the sun
>The family learn through trial and error what works, accidentally forming their own Paladin or Cleric order.
>Many of the younger generations set out in black cabs, asking small amounts of gold to secure the burial sites all across the lands and beyond.

Just make him or her a depressed, 9-5er, punch-clock undead hunter. A Time-to-Make-the-Doughnuts kind of character.

Those are usually pretty fun.

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>>40615049
Undead are unhygienic and he works for the deparment of health.

Otherwise: He worships Humakt enough said.

>>40628304
May be a nice black crusade campaign, make players aspiring sorcerers of his warband and use csm/cultists/plaguezombies/%nurgle_unit_name% as enemies.

>>40615049
>undead are a problem in the land
>it pays to hunt them and keep them from harming the living
>to put food on the table, a roof over their heads, clothes on their back, and an opportunity for education and a better, less violent life for their family; the PC hunts undead.

Build off that, plenty of ways to tie interesting hooks into it.

>>40615049
By combining vampire hunter with big game hunter.

>>40631449
Explain further.

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>>40615049
Your family worked the corpse fields. Putting the undead to rest and chasing off wizards and necromancers was a normal part of your family's duty between hauling wood and stacking up pyres to burn corpses.

You moved away because you were basically an Untouchable. Your weapon is your mallet. You used to use it to smash the undead up in order to keep'em down and in order to make it easier for animals to eat them.

You absolutely hate wild dog packs and you have made killing or at least maiming as many of them with a slingshot as possible your hobby horse. Only way to keep farmyard animals, people who come to pay you and yourself safe from hungry packs after all. You've been thinking of buying a pellet crossbow for the heck of it as you aren´t much of a fan of pellet bows.

There you go.

>>40615049
>world has no natural resources except undead
>bonemeal and water for food
>skulls for cups and bowls
>you wanna build a really big house out of bone bricks so you gotta kill a lot of skelntons

Jesus OP, it's like your not even trying.

>ex-gf cheated and left you for a zombie
>your adventure is a continent-spanning, years-long "FUCK YOU" to her

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Sometimes the dead in the cart start moving around and talking, they're clearly zombies and have to be hit in the head a bit.

>>40627666
>Stop it, Asmodai.
Stop it, Satan.

>>40615049
Take a page out of WHFRPG.
>Dude was a simple graverobber.
>So naturally he became kinda professional at fighting undead.
>After a while he realized that Undead Hunter sounds a lot better than graverobber.
>He still does the same thing tho.

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>>40642092

I like this one.


>>40615049

>Hero is constantly at war with his inner skeletton and channels it into an external war against other skelettors
>says fuck you a lot

>>40615334
"Death cult hates the undead because they represent people escaping the clutches of their god" is a thing in Runequest, iirc. It's also a thing in a couple of other RPGs.

>>40615882
She may also have played a part in forcing the downfall of the Dwemer, although they were dicks to her. At least, if you interpret one of the Dwemer legends in the correct way.

>>40619882
Most of the Daedra run on an entirely different moral compass, though.

>doesnt hate undead
>just wants to put their souls to rest
>just puts dead out of their misery fast and painlessly as possible
>super chill about it

>>40640760
He's not a necrophiliac, he's a retronecrophiliac.

The dead do not arouse him, nor do the living. Only things that have died, been raised and then been killed again arouse him.

>>40615353

I like this one

>>40615049
I once played a Death Cleric that used necromancy to hunt and kill undead. A fight fire with fire type of deal. I played him kind of like an undertaker, priest and necromancer in one. Any living things he killed he prevented them from becoming undead, performed funeral rites etc and would take control of any undead/summon skellies to fight other undead.

>>40627273
>pestilance
Gunlance but shooting disease

>>40642843

literally bleach

>>40615253
Underrated post

I want the adventures of the ocd zombie hunter

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Related.

Grave robbers who found out dabbling in the occult or supernatural corpses is way more lucrative

>>40616495
>He who fights with moe should look to it that he himself does not become a moeblob. And when you gaze long into the anime the anime also gazes into you.

>>40615049
The Hunter is a wealthy Englishman who hunts undead like he's hunting lions in the Savannah.

>>40636327
Hahaha, that's pretty funny, actually. What a clever Pally

>>40641545
>>world has no natural resources
>everyone is dead
>therefore, everyone is undead
>anyone who fights anyone else is therefore an undead slayer
good jorb

>Character wanted to go to the zoo, a nearly extinct species is exposed
>Parents were too poor, and everyone had to farm the crops
>Character grows up and leaves, disgusted as he learns last specimens are dead
>A strange dude offers him to see a reanimated, "as if twas live" one
>Seeing the beast goes into a child-like tantrum, some say a class 8 spergout
>He nows cleans the undead occasionnaly.

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>>40615049

>Be haunted graveyard groundskeeper
>Go to sleep one day
>Wake up next night and notice all the dead are gone
>Pick up shovel, bag, tea pot

"Going to be one of those days again, dear. Don't wait up"

>>40651518
It's already an ironically interesting origin, but thinking about these characters having to deal with all the other typical fantasy bullshit would be kind of funny too.
>Buries all the bandits they kill
>Romances over-shaded by how he's just a graveyard groundskeeper
>Country bumpkin rubbing shoulders with nobles
>Facing down dragons with a shovel
>Ends up gaining the most perfect magic shovel form a benevolent god as a reward

Yes. Write it like a shitty Gothic novella.

>>40615049
There probably isn't a way for *you* to do this because you are asking about character advice on an internet forum.

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>>40615049
>pic related

New characters should not be hunting the undead as a backstory. Maybe training to hunt them or apprenticed somewhere, but not having completed that training.

And there are a lot of ways to make that not "shitty anime fanfiction".

Son/Daughter of a priestess of a god(dess) of Life. The order realized ages ago that that needed to include "clerical/book keeping" duties associated with Undeath. The church in general is a very pleasant, perhaps overly aristocratic and bureaucratic entity, that finds the whole business unsavory and unpleasant.

So they outsource that work to a small sect dedicated to studying (and destroying) Undead. The rest of the faith begrudgingly works or contracts them out. But the sect is also much more interested in practical knowledge and experience to deal with the undead. It is unusual to become part of the brutal training. So your character is much more interested in this adventurous life of good works in the grass roots level based on experience and intuition rather than the frilly, stifling, and dulling experience of a priest/priestess of the faith.

So your motivation is no longer "GRRR UNDEAD KILLED MY PARENTS" but more about a career that sees you on the road, rewards you for quick thinking and inventiveness, and probably isn't bogged down in much of the pomp and circumstance of daily living.

There are always undead to find. You get to travel all over the world.

>>40615049
His own skeleton tried to kill him once and now he must commit mass sekelcide

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>>40648705
This guy as a zombie hunter

>>40615049
Played this once in a game: Character who was part of an undead hating religious order, but the character regarded it more as a 9 to 5 job. She actually managed to make a few necromancer friends and directed her energies away from undead she felt were less problematic. The character was pious and respected the faith, but she had a somewhat flexible (corrupt) version of enforcing the will of the church.

>>40615100
This is actually a character im playing. Same first name as well.

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>>40615049 (OP)
pic related

>>40615337
The office scenes were the best part of Cabin in the Woods

>>40615536
>buddhist
>putting people back into the cycle of life, death and ultimately suffering
Pick one, faggot

>>40661038
Isn't the whole point of Buddhism that after enough time on the cycle of life/death/suffering you eventually achieve enlightenment?
I mean, I dunno, but what he's saying makes sense to me. I can't imagine that Buddhism would tolerate something like undead. I mean, if their body is still walking around, that means that something has gone wrong with them reincarnating, right?
Please advise, sensei

>>40615049
I'm Jimbo. I hunt them varmits cause they done ate up all the deer in the woods. Then I realized I might could enjoy it, so Pa, Earl, and I go hunt them. And people pays us for them.

>>40615943
> release your wife's body/soul from the unholy bondage of undeath
> fall
Doing It Rong.

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>>40651518
"I'm the watchman of the Buffalora Cemetery. I don't know how the epidemic started. All I know is that some people, on the seventh night after their death, come back to life. I call them Returners, but frankly I can't understand why they're so anxious to return. The only way to get rid of them once and for all is to split their heads open. A spade'll do it, but a dum-dum bullet is best. Is this the beginning of an invasion? Does it happen in all cemeteries? Or is Buffalora just an exception? Who knows? And in the end, who cares? I'm just doing my job."

>>40615049
They stole his garden gnomes.
Now he will kill their God.

>>40615049

>Ex-soldier man looking for work and to get paid.
>Has experience with weapons and owns his own armour.
>Offered job as undead hunter for many shekels.
>Beats drowning your sorrows in ale and second-rate elf pussy at the local inn every night.
>He doesn't really care about "maintaining the balance" or saving lives, he just wants the money and a steady supply of work.

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>>40662881
>second-rate elf pussy
Second rate elf pussy is still top shelf pussy. Its not horse pussy, but then again, what is?

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>>40663265
>but then again, what is?
>

>>40615049
This is dumb.

You are dumb.

You missed the blindingly obvious option of cribbing liberally from Von Helsing (No, not the shitty movie, although you could if you wanted. More the original book, Dracula.)

You could also be a Not!Belmont. Counts because the Belmonts are not shitty. Goofy, sometimes, but not shitty.

>>40627998
You'd think it'd be so easy, but it turns out skellingtons have a thing for stealing stuffed animals. I mean, i've found a lion, a seal, a few cats, and MANY bears. None of them mine.

>>40663265
>Its not horse pussy, but then again, what is?
Oh shit, Anon, I didn't realize you were mah nigger.

Going to have to disagree with you about elves though.

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>>40663515
>Dracula

But anon. That book was shit and the plot was horrible and the world building was awful. Hell Dracula didn't even catch on fire in the sun like a real vampire. Why would anyone copy that?

>>40663841
Its cool, brah. Horse pussy is arguably the zenith of pussy.

>disagree with you about elves though.
They're built for abuse, which is its own kind of fun.

>>40615525
>Ducks
>Damn straight

>>40656699
"Now all nine coffins are perfectly aligned. Symmetric. Clear lines. Lovely."

"Sir, we just received word of a nearby village. A group of skelletons is on the loose."

"Urrrrgh! This doesn't fit into my timeplan! The coffins haven't been blessed and anointed yet! Why can nothing just fall into place the way it should be?"

>fighting for survival against zombie apocalypse
>necromancer who finds improper use of necromancy as sacrilege
>druid who finds such transgression abominable
>discredited college professors with portable nuclear devices

>>40661038
Seiga please go

>Guy is walking one day
>Sees undead exist
>"I SHALL SLAY THEM!"
>But why
>"BECAUSE I CAN, AND NONE SHALL COMPLAIN!"
>What about their necromancer?
>"I SHALL SLAY HIM TOO!"

>>40615049
Could do it in the same way GoT does the Night's watch. Arrested for crimes, and could either lose hands or fight foes of the realm until his death.

>>40615049
>Doing it to save his village and woe the ladies

>Doing it to earn money

>Conscripted by the King

>Can rot in jail or kill undead

>Wants to make a set of bone armour

>Necromancer chopped off his balls in ritual; wants revenge.

>Mercy killing undead to send to heaven/valhalla/oe

>>40615049
You see, the undead were all once burried with their belongings, a worrior with his best sword, a nobleman with his rings and trinkets.
Only some ornaments are left for the living, they get to keep their house and their lifes!
Sice the dead have risen again some people went out to kill the richest undead and take their belongings.
Noone will question why you just burst that noblemans head if he was undead and you get some of the most valueable things from some of the most famous dead.
However, the golden days of the golden rings and diamonds are done, people burn their dead now and most rich dead folk have been slayn long ago, now the rest of the undead hunters are just mere bandits looking for some worriors tombs to raid.

>>40665577
>>Doing it to save his village and woe the ladies
>woe the ladies

>Anon: Vampire Hunter
>Kills all vamps, skellies and ghouls
>Not for justice, but to clamjam obnoxious goth chicks

>>40615049
>want to kill something humanoid
>fucking lawful good interferes
>want to kill an animal
>fucking druids interfere
>want to kill an undead
>only the necromancer cares and you can just stab him and even get paid for it

>>40615651
This is great.

>>40615120

Most undead are mindless. It is easy to tell the difference so your character is not racist for forced drama.
Mindless undead are a major threat. Anyone good at killing them or luring them away can find gainful employment anywhere.

Boom. Done. You are not a special snowflake monster hunter with a personal grudge, you are a public service worker like a rat exterminator or a corpse-burner during a plague.

Bonus points if you smell or have skin problems, something common to many inglorious but necessary jobs in real life and things nobody will give a Mary Sue.

>>40615049
The best way to write a backstory that doesn't sound like anime is to give it a military basis. Anime characters are typically angsty loners, so a rank-and-file fighter is about as far as you can get from anime archetype.

Tell me how 'anime' this sounds
>Jerald of York
>Raised as the son of a burgher and artisan, eventually joined the Pengle Third Infantry square.
>Survived the campaign at Bright's foot
>His group was ambushed by necromantic pikemen around the bend at Gilman's river
>They fought in the mud on the banks of the river, until they were pushed back into the fields.
>Jerald and six other men survived the onslaught.
>Regrouped with the rest of the army. The survivors of the ambush at Gilman's river each carried several torn pieces of cloth, to count the number of fallen comrades.
>After the war, Jerald decides he cannot return to his former life without paying the debt accumulated by his survival over that of his fellow soldiers.
>He is now looking for an undead mercenary job as a way to fight once more.

>Hunts undead out of boredom
>Apparently reanimating skeletons never run out, they're the funnest critters to slaughter en masse.

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>>40666070
And she'd been hearing so much good about Vlad's famed Impaler, too.

>>40662695
That was such a great movie

>>40615049
Evil clone of character that character killed returned as an evil undead clone that stole character's waifu and now leads an army of evil dead to get a macguffin that can fuck everyone up.

>>40615049
You're an entrepreneur trying to sell longevity tonics but your main competitor, undeadness, keeps getting in your way?

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>>40615049
Let me tell you of Jaromir the Gravedigger.

A middle-aged Oracle of Pharasma from Ustalav, he was essentially a Slav with a Shovel and haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and the two got into frequent arguments.

The game was set in winter, and the ground was too hard to actually bury bodies in and there was an undead problem. Jaromir's solution: Cremation. Is only way to make sure. This caused friction with the local priest of Pharasma, leading to a heated argument where Jaromir was screaming at the man in the middle of the street to think of the children and burn the bodies of the dead.

Jaromir also promised the others in the party that if they died, he would burn their bodies very respectfully so that they wouldn't rise from the grave.

>>40615049
>My ex-girlfriend of a lich can't be this cute!

The dead are usually hungry and/or angry-with-poor-impulse control.

They're like a fire-and-forget version of an army for the angry ones, or similar to a more controllable bilogical weapon for the hungry ones.

The intelligent ones, well, they usually come with a craving (blood, human flesh, etc.). Strictly speaking, they might not be 'evil' per se, but unless they are super beneficial to the community, they normally consume without putting anything back into the world, like teeny-tiny black holes.

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He wants the reanimated corpses to make his own magic stuff

You inherited the trade from a relative of yours, and have sold your services for a long time. You have a small handful of associates that assist you. Think the Witcher.

>>40615773
This is me in minecraft.

I like it.

>>40615049
>undead are a serious problem
>no, really, vampires are the worst thing to happen to mankind since supervolcanoes
>you grew up with this one guy who deliberately became a vampire
>it involved killing your dad
>also he killed your dog just for fun
>and burned down your house
>things are bad
>some guy in a nice hat notices you have vampire trouble
>teaches you magic sun fightan
>get ripped from training for real
>vampires get rekt

See, the trick is to crib shamelessly from a GOOD anime.

>>40615049
Lolwut

How is a character hunting the undead even remotely related to anime fanfic?

>>40672203
>Welcome to the Catholic Church, bitch.

>>40674680
But can you channel your ki through metals, anon?

>>40674704
I think "anime" is just turning into one of those meaningless buzzwords that just means "thing I don't like."

It's a drug war.

Any undead can become vampiric, and vampires are considered the junkies of the undead society.

You are part of the BTF (Blood Tobacco and Firearms) assembled to combat illegal trafficking of blood across the border.

>>40674718
But of course!

*read in movie trailer's voice*

All he wanted to do, was share his vision with the world.

This Summer,

A brilliant Cartoonist and Businessman,

Buys the wrong plot of land.

A cursed Native American graveyard, become his Magic Kingdom.

On opening day, mobs of undead rise and terrorize his patrons,

Sending his empire into bankruptcy,

And his mind into the Red.

His only salvation, is his First, most loved creation.

This Summer.

Walt Disney kills a whole lot of zombies,

As he dons the guise of

The Churchmouse

>>40615049
If you didn't watch so much fucking anime you'd know that there are tons of examples in the West you can rip off.
>Blade
>Buffy
>Van Helsing
>Supernatural
>Hellboy
>Hansel and Gretel (movie)
>The X-Files

OOPS, you killed one of the king's/duke's/viscount's deer, or fucked a relative of theirs, or looked at them funny. Pay x amount of gold, go to prison for 'so and so' years, have 'insert limb/digit' here cut off, or kill 'x' number of undead.

You could be a part of a sort of penal legion of undead/monster killers, as a means to work off your debt to society or avoid execution.

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>>40663515
>Belmonts are not shitty. Goofy, sometimes, but not shitty.

Don't forget fabulous as all get out.

>>40615049
Once there was a village where the people held an ancient custom. The leaders of the village were those whose ancestors were buried in barrow-mounds behind their halls of stone. The more ancestors were interned in the barrow, the greater a leader's political influence. It was said that in the sacred funeral rites, a power was passed from ancestor to descendant, and this power was what marked the leaders of men from the followers. The leaders could hear the voices of ancestors, when they walked alone in the wooded glen or swam by the light of the moon.

One day, a greedy leader used a terrible deceit and burned the corpses of his rival's ancestors, destroying the crypts of their eternal rest. Framed as an accident of fate, or a sign of the gods, the people had no choice but to accept the deciever as their new ruler; it was as custom decreed. The old, fair king and his family, his wife and young son, were reduced to poverty.

In the night, people started disappearing. First it was washer women vanishing by the river, then fishermen and elders on walks. Soon entire hunting packs were vanishing. One day, a head appeared on a pike in the middle of the village, and all knew they were under siege by a dark power.

The village leader bastioned himself in the greatest stone hall the people possessed, and hoarded food and provisions. It was as though he knew what a terrible night would follow. As the surving villages huddled in a shared space with what little fire they could muster, the undead came. Terrible revenants with cracked bones, tarnished silver talismens and foetid ermine capes, they each power filth-encrusted jewels and rusted chalices, bent greatswords and archaic crowns. As the villagers fought bravely against these spectres, the old king's son stood forth and cried. He told all that the wights before them were none other than the ancestor's of the village's new leader, and the dead acknowledged as much. The young man asked the dead what drove them

>>40677641
from their eternal rest to slaughter the living. Their was a moment of silence, and then the dry, rattling laughter of scores of clattering bones and arms. The dead kings and queens simply replied that they were bound by blood to join with their young descendant in action; that just as he the living had burned the corpses of the dead, so would they the dead slaughter the figures of the living. It was as the ashes were scattered that the pact was made; and so would it be terminated when the blood was spilled. Whose blood must spill, asked the young man. Why, all those descendants of the dead who were burned, replied the host, or that of our own descendants. So the young man pointed to the great stone hall and told the dead that their salvation rested within, the oathbreaker alone. And the dead left at that, vanishing like spectres through the walls of the stone hall. A great scream was heard, and then the dead were never seen again in that village.

When the boy came of age, he defeated his brothers in arms in the ritual games and proved himself a worthy leader, albeit only among those who had no power inherited from the ancestors. So the young man denied his throne for now, and left to journey the world. His zeal was the sanctity of life and death, the balance of the two powers and the terrible evil that foolish men could unleash on the world if left unchecked. His mission was sealed, and only with the realm of the dreaming dead in peace would it be sealed.

>>40615049
I think IRL undead slayers, if it was a thing, would be very straight/practical persons, kinda like astronauts and pilots when they are working.

No tragic past, no global motivation, just doing their dangerous job because someone has to do it.

>>40615049
Actually played an undertaker in Deadlands who had a guy he was burying come back Harrowed and took his hat. Spent the game burying anything that should be dead but wasn't and a few things that shouldn't be alive to begin with. Like 'skeeters.

>>40615049
Write him like a pest removal specialist in a setting where the undead are pests. He will be calm, casual and it will be like another day on the job. Is paid by both the client and government.
>"Are the recently deceased having and animating incident"
>Cue image of zombies
>"Then call Western Pesterminator for Peace of mind"
>Cue image of modified combine "harvesting zombies" and leaving them in tiny "biocubes".
>"Clean up is included and a special with decontamination services, incineration fees are not waved."

X Fantasy kingdom employs state necromancers to summon vast armies of the undead.... to do basic manual labour. Every single family enjoys at least a few undead "slaves" to do house work, till the fields, chop wood, carry supplies etc...

Occasionally an undead being slips from control and becomes a ravenous monster. The state authorities manage to keep this all hush hush and cannot imagine a better social/economic system.

You are a part of the Royal Dead Inspectors. Most think of them as boring accountants auditing zombie numbers and upholding arcane laws. It is in fact a cover organization for a team of undead slayers.

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>>40677966
also cause it gets you HELLA PUSSY!

YEAAAAAAAA

>>40615807
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>>40615854
>No one cares about Malacath
Guess that makes sense, since he is the God of the scorned and downtrodden.

He loves his followers though. Great guy.

>>40683889
Did you tame those slopes, Anon?

>>40684798
If only. I only got the image from some thread on this board, don't remember which one it was.

Something about her though just stood out to me and I decided to save the image for later

>>40683889
Damn. I'll take a dozen.

>>40615049
Had a player who had an interesting one. Was a druid, spirits started talking to him and giving him powers to fight undead, lived in a town plagued by undead. He did, voices wanted him to go innawoods to find more, he did, joined the party because having more dudes with him will let him kill undead more effectively.