Character Creation

Skyman · Post by **Skyman** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:08 pm

Yes a mysteries dude

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:53 pm

All right, I posted my guy's first three phases. I was thinking about making "The Fastest Man Alive!" -- a guy who owns a plane that can do 300 mph -- but decided not to, since there's already a "vehicle" guy in RPM. Instead, I made a guy with two of the neatest Stunts available, IMO: Master of Disguise and Disguise of the Mind.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:06 pm

Cool! We're almost go for the next phase!

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:33 pm

sweet! another bad ass character concept. i am happy.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:11 pm

Mord has a character coming as well, if his schedule will ever permit him to post it. That'll be six PCs -- seven with Simon's. Not bad for a start.

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:57 am

I've wrangled Mark into making something also (probably).

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:58 am

~~[quote="dnd3eplayer"]~~I've wrangled Mark into making something also (probably).[/quote]
That is good! Who is Mark?

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:10 am

he's from my (Sadohara's) L5R game, and a buddy of mine. Also, Todd's back from Africa and I'll see if he wants in on this action.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:44 am

Sweet. Unlike some games I could name (e.g., mine), this game ought to be a real more = merrier situation.

Others -- notably, Uber-Snotling and lower-case enthusiast jimmy corrigan -- have suggested that we get going on the guest starring roles now that we have a decent stable of characters. So everyone's familiar with how the next two phases go, right? Pick another character's novel and "guest star" in it. IMO, we should start with a round of Phase 4 to try to spread out the guest stars -- ideally, everyone should have one -- and then move onto Phase 5 later. It looks like there could be as many as four PC-come-latlies to this party, too, so doing a phase at a time will give them a chance to catch up.

If anyone's interested, we could also do the occasional "flashback" or "prequel" novel in place of a guest starring role. It'd be something like the experiences of two PCs before they became pulp heroes -- say, during the Great War, or during childhood -- effectively turning Phases 4 or 5 into a Phase 1.5 or 2.5. You get the idea. A fellow player and I did that once for a PBP SotC game, and it was pretty cool. Just throwing that out there.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:58 am

ooooh... flashbacks. me like.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:46 pm

someone please refresh my memory, do i come up with my own character's new aspects in the next phase of chargen, or does the player whose novel i'm guest-starring in come up with them?

i'd look it up myself, but my copy of sotc is at home and the srd is lacking examples.

thanks in advance.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:35 pm

~~[quote="jimmy corrigan"]~~someone please refresh my memory, do i come up with my own character's new aspects in the next phase of chargen, or does the player whose novel i'm guest-starring in come up with them?

i'd look it up myself, but my copy of sotc is at home and the srd is lacking examples.

thanks in advance.[/quote]
You come up with all your own aspects. The thing you/we did in the Ptolus/noir game is entirely home-brewed.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:06 pm

cool. thanks, dev. (you too, clandestine pm-er from the outer reaches, whoever you are.)

mordraine · Post by **mordraine** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:25 pm

BTW, I've got a very rough concept for a character in the works. To whet your appetite, his name's Johnny Methuselah, Son of Satan. Hopefully I'll be writing him up this evening, if I don't feel too burnt out when I get back to the hotel.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:37 am

ha ha ha! that was great. welcome to the boards and the sotc game, entrope.

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:23 am

Ok, so I decided to get in the action. My character concept is "The Traveller" which is similar to Cthulu's in that he is from the future. He has a device called "The Pocketwatch of the Cron" that lets him travel through time.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:22 am

~~[quote="cczernia"]~~Ok, so I decided to get in the action. My character concept is "The Traveller" which is similar to Cthulu's in that he is from the future. He has a device called "The Pocketwatch of the Cron" that lets him travel through time.[/quote]
Sah-weet. It'd be awesome if every board regular had a SotC character on file.

entrope · Post by **entrope** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:52 am

~~[quote="jimmy corrigan"]~~ha ha ha! that was great. welcome to the boards and the sotc game, entrope.[/quote]

Thanks for the welcome. This sounds like it is going to be fun!

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:53 am

~~[quote="entrope"]~~

Akros the Magnificent

An acrobatic midget that fighter for the common man

[/quote]

Welcome to the boards Mark, glad you could make it.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:36 pm

~~[quote="entrope"]~~a freak butter churning accident [/quote]
Is there any other kind?

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:37 pm

No rush, obviously -- just a reminder to everyone to update their character sheets with the fourth and fifth phases. That means me, too.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:21 pm

now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational sotc character!

(in other words, rex is updated.)

Uber_snotling · Post by **Uber_snotling** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:48 pm

Yee-Haw

Brontosaurus Bill is fully oper-frickin-ational.

Scolopendra · Post by **Scolopendra** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:27 am

Okay, I finally got something up. I left off the guest-starring so if anyone wants an elitist Swedish ninja diplomat to show up somewhere in the backstory...

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:13 am

~~[quote="Scolopendra"]~~Okay, I finally got something up. I left off the guest-starring so if anyone wants an elitist Swedish ninja diplomat to show up somewhere in the backstory...[/quote]
Well, that's up to you -- pick two novels you want to guest-star in, write a few sentences describing Magnus's role, and come up with another two Aspects.

And thanks for posting! We're developing a pretty substantial stable of heroes.

Scolopendra · Post by **Scolopendra** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:17 am

Hmmm... well, with the Space Kingdom of Sweden storyline, that suggests more Braininator action.

[edit] aaaand done. Wow, I even got an opportunity to give the Death Defying stunt background...

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:56 pm

I went to the Magic Castle in Hollywood last night, and while it didn't make me want to be a magician, it did make me want to make a character who's a magician. So I think I'll do that, and set the no-personality Incognito to one side for now.

Just in case I'm able to make the next one of these.