Comments on: Traveling Characters: When Your Love For a Character Exceeds The Lifespan of Your Game Group

By: DMGOD

DMGOD — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:03:45 +0000

I usually DM, so when my friend offer to, I was so excited. I created a warforged barbarian with the arachni-chassis upgrade. He was Spyder Darkblade, using a black greatsword and his eight legged dropkick of doom to vaquish enemies. When my friend moved, and I went back to DMing, I would usually have Spyder hinder or assist the PCs in some way. My best moment with spyder would have to be being enlarged by the party’s wizard and then killing the final boss with a column ripped from the wall. SQUISH!

By: Taylor G

Taylor G — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:42:43 +0000

Once made character who grew up to be a human fighter/rogue/wizard/duelist named Hart Thorn. He was one of my early attempts to play against my own personality. As such, he was an arrogant bastard. I brought him back for another campaign (the only CN in an otherwise evil party). Afterwards I created the back story that he had made epic level and had become a dimension hopping vagabond. From that point, i created about 3 more of his descendants, each similar but somewhat different. Even had one game where my gf was playing and I was DMing where she found out that Hart Thorn was her grandad. And she was an elf… Things got weird…

By: Centurion

Centurion — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:55:01 +0000

I had a gnome Cleric that was from Lantan and carried a Smokepowder pistol and once convinced a oorag that it was magical and he needed to look through the hole and push the trigger. i actually rolled a natural 20 on my bluff and he totally shot himself in the eye and our group got the drop on the rest of the group. cant remember his name for the life of me,
i reuse my charactors as NPC’s and villians at times. i dislike reusing charactors unless they didnt get a full playing time and i loved the name and or backstory.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:41:40 +0000

Speaking of old characters becoming NPCs, I’ve been playing Ars Magica on Sunday for about 8 years and my old PCs almost always show up as an NPC in the new saga.

Also I had a companion character that I only got to play one session before another PC chased him off into the farie forest never to be seen again. In the next campaign, which was set about 200 years after the first, I brought him back in disguise. I secretly decided that he had been sent 200 years into the future and moved from Wales to Egypt. Since he was a Spaniard, he had to pretend to be Muslim and change his name. No one else knew about this until the end of the campaign, but it amused me.

By: Dieter

Dieter — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:06:39 +0000

I’ve never re-used a character from a long-standing campaign, but sometimes I’ll create a character I just love for a campaign that fizzles out after only a couple sessions, and those I’ll recreate for a new game.

By: Dave R

Dave R — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:51:36 +0000

I’ve taken characters from games that died or fell apart and reintroduced them as NPCs when I GM’d. Most recently with Istara Kandorian, who was a mid-level Rebellion operative and newly-minted engineering officer in a Star Wars play by post game… and in an infinities game set twenty-five years later, she’s Fleet Admiral Istara Kandorian Serrano, commander in chief of the Republic Navy.

By: LokyCat

LokyCat — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:50:43 +0000

P.s.
Nether of the two ever died!
The campaigns unexpectedly broke up.

By: LokyCat

LokyCat — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:53:36 +0000

I have two characters I would LOVE to bring back…

1) Darsan(True Neutral Human Cleric of Kelemvor) – He is a long greasy haired human in Forgotten Realms who before adventuring was working as an Undertaker. He was the only human I have ever played and I fell in love with him.
Play Tactics – He is a full on caster, favoring necromancy he views dead bodes as “raw material” and has no problem raising his foes to fight for him.
Roll playing – Mostly silent but quick to start a philosophical argument. Negative and morbid most of the time but brightens up and becomes an instant optimist when death is involved.

2) Thal(True Neutral Warfoged Artificer) – Thal crafted dozens of original magic items for the world of Eberron. He was working as a researcher/librarian for the library of Sharn before becoming an adventure. Actually he never left the position, he brought new discoveries to the library and was so mush of an asset that they gave him the liberty to not only come and go as he pleased but also free rain and use of the facilities.
Play Tactics – His body is littered with attached magic items that enhance him. He fought like a caster but never hesitated to take out his great sword and get physical.
Roll playing – Nerdy and clueless. “fleshis” are a enigma for him, think Data for Star Trek when it comes to his personality but with no problem when it comes to emotions.

By: The Pretentious Fool

The Pretentious Fool — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:30:51 +0000

I voted other because I don't necessarily play the same character, but do play legacy characters. I like to play the children or grandchildren of my old characters when possible. I also once ran a game where I used an old PC of mine as an NPC leading the group (which was made up of his own son as well as the son of one of his old rivals). The Pretentious Fool´s last blog post..MK vs. DC

By: Soul Existence

Soul Existence — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:58:14 +0000

For every game my crew starts, we roll new characters. It was never a second thought. My old group, sometimes we'd roll characters just to see what we could come up with (the mutant animal options in the old palladium TMNT game was great for that and left me with entire stuffed folders of characters who were never played). It wasn't until my wife threw a fit at having to create yet another character and write yet another background that I took a second look and started to consider reusing characters. Soul Existence´s last blog post..Scum and Villainy