I met a character on the Hall, quite a while back now, by name of Glossaria. For a good long while, I puzzled at her odd habits.
Then, finally, I got pointed to the first Hall session she'd walked in on.
It kinda went like this:
::reads::
::blinks noncomprehendingly::
::finally gets it::
"She's a what?!?"
Now that I've been in the roleplaying scene a little longer myself...
...I've got my own little group of odd characters.
Lately, I seem to have specifically gone for the really odd ideas, too. So far my own personal menagerie includes:
Talia 'Deftwing.' Formerly a bat-winged tiefling, she was radically redone into a winged half-elf (Thank you, Aussiegamer!) after I realized that there was no way I could go past 8th character level without taking 20% XP penalties for mismulticlasing (::inserts an 'Oops!' here::). She's a Monk2/Fighter1 (formerly Monk3/Fighter1) and is kinda the groups all-around-girl. She can sneak, diplomaticize, good with a bow and can thump stuff up close too...
Lyle Teatopple. An evoker mage with a mage-or in mischief. He's a Strongheart halfling who acts far, far too much like a Lightfoot. A very mischievous one! And you wouldn't believe how much fun to play. This guy I certainly like--creative misapplication of destructive spells can be really fun!
Taran Brighthoof. A rather stoic (and rather multiclassed--fighter/ranger/tempest) centaur who I think I mentioned briefly in a previous post...
Shoeve Kismin. I pulled one again--this name literally means 'absorber of magic' in the Hebrew language, and that's exactly what he does. He's a spellfire channeller monk. Pretty new on the character roster, so I don't fully know how he'll be acting in the future...
There was a cat-folk bard, but the game she was in died of lack of interest...a shame. I liked the character...
This is excepting the odd cast of Evil Villains and NPCs I've got lurking around The Raven's Keep, too...there's a wereweasel I'd pay money to see Lisl facing! Not that it would be a real contest, but still worth a bowl of popcorn to see...
I'd love to bring one (or several) of these down on to the Hall (they kinda make Aeryn seem real plain and simple)...but somehow I just don't think that'll be happening anytime soon.
Besides, there's still no way I'd be able to match Gloss for oddest character concept.
Posted by adam at August 16, 2004 09:53 AMYou know, reading your post, I thought the
::reads::
::blinks noncomprehendingly::
::finally gets it::
was a description of Gloss, until I got to the last line, there... Heeheehee...
I'm sorry to hear you won't be able to make it back to the Hall soon. Though it sounds like you're not having too much trouble finding other games!
Posted by: Liz at August 16, 2004 12:45 PMSorry, Stam, I don't read you regularly (but then, you don't post regularly either, so I guess we're even ;) ), so I didn't know you were awaiting comment from me.
As far as *oddest* character concept on the Hall... well, alright, she ranks up there, but I wouldn't say Gloss tops the list. I'd say Erdian ranks her, if only for the inspired way Kurg played a wild mage. And speaking of wild mages-- there's Yb, of course, who defied definition, and Zoya herself, who's out there because she's *not* the stereotypical wild mage.
And if you're just talking about animal-based characters... well, there was Lhynnae, the psionicist who preferred to live life as a cat. And speaking of cats, there was Snowy, the mind-linked snowleopard... and, well, there's Lisl, but she's pretty normal. ;)
Col has nearly made a character of the animated mug who accompanied Lini on her travels. And we've had ::shudder:: kender on the Hall-- they were the *reason* the mugs got animated.
Yeah, I'd say Gloss is in good company. ^_^
Posted by: Gris at August 22, 2004 04:51 AM