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Volar the Healer
Jedi
Joined: 04 Aug 2003
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Location: Arizona, USA
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I really like this idea. As you will see, I like playing all kinds of characters - but every one of them is a hero:
Volar the Healer; Jedi Knight
Cruelty: none
Loyalty: total
Passion: low (except where his wife and/or droids are concerned)
Piety: total (as in religious fanatic)
Sanity: total
Selfishness: none
LCDR Simass (Iceman); Rebel fighter pilot & squadren leader
Cruelty: low
Loyalty: high
Passison: average (but concealed)
Piety: average
Sanity: average (most of the time)
Selfishness: average (except where awards are concerned)
Max; ex-table of 13 assasin
Cruelty: high
Loyalty: high
Passion: none
Piety: low (but improving)
Sanity: average
Selfishness: high
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Esoomian
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Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Volar the Healer wrote: | I really like this idea. As you will see, I like playing all kinds of characters - but every one of them is a hero:
Max; ex-table of 13 assasin
Cruelty: high
Loyalty: high
Passion: none
Piety: low (but improving)
Sanity: average
Selfishness: high |
A hero... I suppose if he uses his complete lack of morals for good instead of evil and is loyal to somone/thing that is good he's a hero. But a character like that isn't really a hero. They're more what I like to call a villian who just happens to be doing good things.
Their reasons aren't usually heroic. It's more "I'm saving your life because I get paid to... and incidentially doing so involved my killing of a number of your enemies" and not "Princess, thank god you're OK. Don't worry I'll save you"
Actually it's not an uncommon character and I quite like to play that sort of character myself. In some games (D&D for example) simply walking into the ork invested wilderness and slaughtering orks would make you a hero of sorts... Even if all the orks were just sitting arround their camp and not actively being evil per se.
Hero-"I've just killed 500 Orks, here are their heads to prove it"
Local lord- "Well Orks are bad so killing them is good although no Orks have been raiding my lands you have stopped that possibilty from arrising. I declare you to be a hero of these lands"
Hero- "Great... Anything else to kill it's great fun killing"
Local lord- "Ummmm I hear there are some ogres in those caves why don't you try over there" |
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Hellstorm
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Joined: 22 Dec 2003
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Location: Montreal, Canada
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I don't know...if he's an ex-assassin, that may be looking for redemption of an extremly cruel act (such as killing your target but also killing the kid that was with the target) may be quite a good charater to play, just imagine the guilt you could put on a character like that as a GM. 8)
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Volar the Healer
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Location: Arizona, USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| Hellstorm wrote: | | I don't know...if he's an ex-assassin, that may be looking for redemption... |
Exactly so. The assasin bit is background. I wanted to play a dark character working toward being good. This gives an explanation for some of his skills - skills which don't usually get used in our campaign.
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Son of Fire
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Joined: 03 Sep 2003
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Location: Rose City Canada
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:11 am Post subject: |
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As I stated earlier, I always tend to have a “darker” edge to my characters in any game.
But that’s one thing about Star Wars; you have to be cautious as to the degree the “dark” aspect of a charter is played. Star Wars is a game of absolutes, and that does not bode well for the player of an antihero. But redemption is always a cool thing…hell; the entire Star Wars series of films is about Vader, his rise, his fall and his redemption.
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Feyladil
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Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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Location: Aachen, Germany
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Very cool thing this "psychological profile"! Included it in my custom character sheet right now.
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Hellstorm
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Joined: 22 Dec 2003
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Location: Montreal, Canada
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I'm about to start a Resident Evil game and it's gonna included in that too. 8)
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