Have you ever retired a character, /tg/? What was their ending?

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>>49915964
Got backstabbed by her own /d/aughter at the venerable age of 344.
Died happy.

>>49915964
Two characters got retired. One, my first character ever and a fairly generic human Cleric, got retired cause I got bored with him and the DM let me. He managed to complete his supposedly impossible quest and retrive a scale from a dragon of each colour, and was allowed become a head priest and set up his own temple. 'Twas cool.
The other character was a Gensai Arcane Trickster. Managed to make everyone believe he was the hero of a prophecy- which the party had stopped from occurring- and thus managed to become a Duke of the realm, and when the party left him he was planning an engagement with the princess of the place. Was actually really satisfying.

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>>49915964
Yep, my old dwarf warrior bought three mills with the money that he got from the adventures (I played 3 long campaigns with him) and now he lives renting them.
Now I'm playing an elf girl, to change a little.

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>>49916086
>Got backstabbed by her own /d/aughter

>>49915964
Blank Sister of battle of Dark Heresy that end their days in a black ship.

>>49915964
Gut shot after dueling the really minmaxed teammember who was his frenemy. He lost the battle but still got the last say.

Still managed to land a single bullet into him that got to the bloodstream. Cyanide is a bitch.

>>49915964
My paladin of Bahamut used a Wish spell to kill an entire gladitorial arena full of drow (in the stands) including the entire ruling family, sending that section of the underdark into chaos. We stopped the game after because the DM didn't think my paladin of Bahamut would kill an arena full of Taimot worshippers with a wish spell (4e, it was a weird time for everyone, including Lolth). So I guess I saved the day? I certainly stopped the raids on human settlements and massive crime ring that stretched for hundreds of miles on the surface.

>>49915964
He became the attack dog for an Evil god of war, and currently holds a position he'd rather not because it makes him sound a lot more important than he thinks he is.
He just wants a peaceful life, and he sort of has it, but every so often he has to go kill some uppity idiot because they're not willing to live peacefully under him.

>>49916974
I mean, what you did sounds similar to the dilemma that the USA had to face during WW2 when they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki

If you were chaotic/lawful good, that might be ok
Methinks neutral good would be inclined to think this was a horrible atrocity.

He started the campaign an old farmer with no family left looking for a seachange, he ended the campaign on a new farm on a distant coast, and a whole new surrogate family.

>>49917166
The next campaign was a continuation a few decades later, I played his son, having come back from exploring the fringes of the known world after hearing his father had died peacefully surrounded by loved ones. They were great campaigns.

>>49917087
How is that similar? At least with the nukes you can argue many of the people hit did not deserve it. There is no way you can argue that Paladin did wrong unless the setting is so stupid that killing hundreds of evil sadists at once to save thousands of lives is anything but objectively good.

My elderly gnome librarian turned wizard wiped out before fighting the dragon. IC it just seemed like what he would do, I played him as coasting on adrenaline the whole time and a crash seemed inevitable. OOC I rathered see him run off than die, and his con was like 6 or something. Can't say I was nearly as I spared with his replacement, though, I can't even remember what it was to be honest.

>>49917240
No one deserved Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

>>49917193
I've always wanted to play a descendant of a PC, but my DMs either dont wanna do a follow up game or the game dies before we get a true ending.

>>49917464
The military targets in those cities 'deserved' being bombed, it doesn't have a greater moral significant because its one big bomb instead of thousands of small ones.

I had a DH character retire after a Cruiser plunged from space and crashed into him.

>>49915964
He became a successful pirate captain, commanding a heavily armed ship of the line and two faster, more lightly armed escorts.

>>49917590
"deserved being bombed"

>>49917782
He just meant they were valid military targets.

>>49917087
Paladin, Lawful good af. Bahamut was a LN deity, making my choice even more sound, paladin code-wise.

>>49917240
I know, right? My GM wanted to move my alignment down from LG to LN, thus making me fall. Glad the game fell apart. I think he was butthurt I derailed his plot but who gives level 5 PCs a wish granting ring?

>>49917782
Look up the concept of Total War. While the people in those cities werent combatants, they were instrumental in fielding combatants. The choice to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a moral one, the logistics were terribly sound.

>>49917998
Even then, the US had been firebombing cities to the same effect for far less cost.
The nukes were a way to flex on other powers in the world AND achieve a military aim.

>>49918037
It also saved our lives. Yeah we firebombed Tokyo to shit, but that took a lot of planes, a lot of runs, and a lot of soldiers being shot out of the sky. It also forced Japan to surrender when we told them we had more. Nukes are instant. Shock and Awe. The fact that it made the soviets shit their pants was a fortunate side-effect.

>>49918095
Apparently we had plans to drop a total of twelve of the damn things there.

A Star Wars campaign ended with my force sensitive character being captured by the Empire and ultimately being turned. When she returned for a campaign set years later after Endor, it was as an antagonist who was systematically killing everyone regardless of their allegiance she considered responsible for her capture.

>>49915964
Took over his tribe and lead them in the final battle. Minotaur barbarian. Brought out of retirement for the epic tier, slew baphomet in one on one combat. Took over the abyssal labyrinth and calmed the eternal rage of the Minotaurs. Became gatekeeper to the abyss and elsewhere as the labyrinth was like a boring version of the city of doors, with portals leading everywhere if you knew how to find them. Lead the abyssal Minotaurs in THAT final battle.

Betrayed the party at the agreed upon moment with the DM, became a minor villain that he party loathed. Was tortured to death in excruciating detail by his betrayed lover.

I had a Half-Drow monk go from day 1 of the campaign all the way to the end after 2 real life years of playing. It was 8 ingame years of world spanning adventure, after which he retired to return to his wife and daughter. It wasn't a character you would ever expect to get a happy ending, but he kinda deserved it for all the shit he went through while saving the entire world.

And despite that, Zakk Brandysworth was a monk with 10 strength and con.

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>>49915964
Achieved immortality at 20th level, built a mountain out in the planesland where all the dinosaurs and her people lived, carved runes and tribal totems all over it, set herself up as a great wisdom giver and guardian of her peoples many tribes who could be called on in times of great need.
Pic related, its her.
DM insisted we continue into epic levels even though no one really wanted to. We got tpkd by regular old iron golems. Still mad.[/spoilers]

My fighter basically had Samwise's ending, returned to his hometown, married his favorite barmaid, and had a massive family.

>>49915964


More than once.

Probably the most poignant was that he (and the rest of the team) were responsible for both starting and winning a war which resulted in the breakdown of general authority and governance in the city-state he lived in. When things settled, most of the city was burnt down, her colonies were all destroyed, and about 60% of the men of fighting age were dead or crippled.

You started to get all the sorts of problems that rise up when civil authority breaks down, bandits, monster migrations in, and on top of it, half of the survivors wanted to put us in charge, and the other half wanted to hang us because they thought the whole thing was our fault.

Civil war seemed brewing, and that was the last thing we needed, so we just left. Retired, walked away and tried to send money anonymously to whomever looked like he could hold it together.

>>49917660
That's how I'd wanna go

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>>49915964
Not exactly.

However, at the end of Rise of Tiamat, all of us are planning on having our (surviving) characters retire. My own character, a drow thief, having seen far too much of the world, was going to go back to her adoptive human father's inn and eventually after he passed on take over running the place.

This would segue nicely into how I plan on framing Storm King's Thunder when I run it as DM, which is to have the entire thing be a story that the retired PCs of the campaign are telling at a tavern, many decades later. The tavern, of course, being owned by my retired drow thief, with the tavern having become something of a hangout for retired adventurers.

>>49918591
What was his level, beginning and end?

>>49915964
Yes, one old man called Xcissla, he was the last survivor of his race, some kind of proto-elves that are believed to be one of the first sentient beings ever and were so skilled in magic that they were pretty much nigh omnipotent. He spent most of his old life writing books about the history of his race as a hobby. He was killed by a human when humans were mostly slaves at the time and they rebelled. He was 9867 years old and it happened 6170 years after the disapearance of his race.

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>Be nihilist construct bard
>Despite being special snowflake character, accidentally save the universe at the climax of the final boss battle by nat 20 speechcraft vs the final boss
>Literally told a God to fuck off

The DM was so impressed he had my character sent to another dimension, a young one full of hope and potential where my character could live out his days playing various instruments for the primitive tribes there.

>Tfw you're a cultures first storytelling demigod

Feels good man.

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>>49918859
>Not ruling with an iron fist

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>>49915964
Was elected as the next emperor. And it was actually the DM's idea.

Felt good to see him as a NPC afterwards.

>>49918743
He started at level 1, and retired at level 17, at the age of 53. He was 45 years old at the start of the adventure

>Decker waaaay back in Shadowrun 3rd Ed.
Got out of running while he was ahead and became an info broker. Survived Crash 2.0 and later made a guest appearance many years later as a group contact.

>Zenith caste solar exalt
Bailed on the rest of the circle to play the Games of Divinity. Essence 9 is a bitch.

>>49916801
Gawt Dayum anon, fucking glorious.

>>49915964
Yes, a few times. The one I liked the most was a human bardbarian who retired into the house of nature after centuries (and half a dozen campaigns in which he reached epic levels) spent in service to Bhalla and Khelliara, there to live in communion with the soul of his dead waifu for all eternity. Retired alive and immortal because had he died, he would have been judged false at best, faithless at worst, so he had to work himself into the grace of the goddesses and gain admission as a guest.

>>49919950
How'd he both manage to get on the side of the gods and also be faithless?

>>49919993
That's the whole point of the character, he had to find ways to make himself useful to the goddesses (mostly Bhalla). Being an adventurer, that mostly happened by joining groups fighting the followers of Talos or Malar. Or helping faithful followers against their enemies. Various stuff.
His adventures include retrieving a few artifacts, stopping an invasion attempt of Rashemen by the Thayans, banishing a demon of pestilence and going to his realm to kill him for real, stuff like that. When the powerlevels got too high, the dm no I mean the goddesses decided he had done enough, and was giving permission to settle there.

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>>49915964
Was a dragonblood sorcerer, became a gold dragon due to a wish, dethroned and killed the black dragon that was the origin of his dragonblood sorcery, took over as king and dismantled the dictatorship enforced by the ancient black dragon, still reigns as king in the setting.

Didn't realize just how hard being a benevolent king can be on a continent where most countries are lead either directly or indirectly by dragons benefiting off of the lesser races. Is constantly stressed the fuck out and wishes he could just go back to adventuring.

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>>49915964
He was a Tiefling ranger who used to be a Marine in the military of a LE government. Even after he warmed up to the party, whenever they came in conflict old homeland he would usually refuse to fight out of principle. (At the start of the campaign he was shipwrecked which is why he had to work with the party.) Eventually it became pretty clear he was either going to have to help take down his country's operations or leave, so he chose to head home.

The DM actually had him show up as a cameo in several campaigns after that, each time having gained a progressively higher rank in the Navy, which I really liked.

>>49915964
I was thoroughly unhappy playing my character, so I over time got them promoted to leader of an important faction in the setting and then retired them to play something else.

Gnome Cleric, retired from adventuring to become the spiritual leader of a booming trading settlement, on the far side of the mountains.
Our party had spent a night in the area, with my cleric healing some locals. They had no divine magic, so were greatly impressed, and half the local single women decided to seduce him together, and he had about 4 bastard half-gnomish children in the town he settled in.

My bard who reached epic levels became a reaccuring NPC in any campaign because he learned inter dimensional travel. He even has a few children that show up now and then, selling magic items and books from other worlds.

>>49918696
>which is to have the entire thing be a story that the retired PCs of the campaign are telling at a tavern
Which would mean nobody can actually die and there'd be no suspense.

>>49920714
Be creative.

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>>49915964
Only two characters I played with had official retirements.

I had a neutral evil Redcap (those evil fairy folk) who got roped into a convoluted adventure with a lawful good centaur monk and chaotic neutral drow bard. The drow hated being a male slave so managed to escape and the centaur was a self imposed exile from his tribe to perfect himself and do good.

Our characters joined together only because they were in immediate danger. A King Farquaad-esque human king was wanting to exterminate non human races due to whatever reasoning.

Eventually we got all the demi-humans to team up against the king and his Dr. Frankenstein Lackey (giant undead armies and a monstrous undead slime mecha the king rode in). Elves, drow, dwarves, ogres, centaurs and orcs all fighting for their lives against an unending tide of dead and human soldiers.

We won and destroyed the king who ended up actually being some sort of evil demigod.

My Redcap went on to become the prophet of a new religion based around a burning bush which he used to trick the orcs into joining the alliance. He spent the rest of his 200 year life in luxury, worshipped by orcs.

The monk was reunited fully with his tribe and the drow married the centaur chief's daughter (yep, was weird).

My other character started as an Oregon trail sharpshooter bard (elves as natives, human players only D&D) and ended the campaign part of a "new world order" cabal which took over the planet using a strange magical rock our characters discovered in the westlands. The DM expected us to fight the new world order, but our characters decided to join them instead since they weren't really good folk and went west as criminals and they liked the idea of power. The rest of the campaign ended with us turning the colonies against the old world through fear mongering and commuting a war against them.

These were both a long time ago, those were some strange campaigns... If only we could finish a campaign nowadays

>>49917087
US burned down about 75% of Japan with incendiary bombs AND dropped the nukes, killing millions of civillians. Clapistanians have no concept of relativity or restraint, and they strive for world domination. They're neutral evil.

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>>49920965
Japan should be grateful America nuked them and didn't genocide spitroast their entire race to death, which is what would have happened if they weren't impressed upon to surrender.

>>49920714
1) Is Prince of Persia - the Sands of Time a worse game for the fact that the eponymous prince can't actually die even moreso than normal video game heroes, because the whole thing is from the beginning a story he is telling a princess? ("Wait. I died? That's not right. Let me start again...")

2) This is a ridiculous world of magic. Of course they can actually die. It just means that it might not have stuck, although they could have been resurrected after the events of Storm King's Thunder finished.

3) This campaign would clearly be more about how well the players can TELL a story, rather than the story itself.

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>>49921243
We can thank nukes for our animoo and mangos we love so much today, desu!

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>>49920965

>>49921538
The PTSD clearly drove the entire nation batty

>>49921771
It's perhaps worth noting that the very next paragraph of that pic looks like it's about to start singing the praises of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Which sounds about right. The IJA may well have been the worst major power army put forth in WWII, even worse than Italy. Leagues behind Italy. But the IJN was excellent and put up a Hell of a fight for a force that was as badly outclassed from the start as it was.

>>49921771
>cryptonomicon
mah nigga

>>49918319
Ausfag here, we had plans to give away the north half of the country to the japs if they made landfall, personally I feel like nukes were justifiable use of force to shatter an enemy that planned to fight until the last.

>>49917998
Anon, I am inclined personally to regard this as a horrible war crime of debatable moral permissibility.

But god damned if you did not make the correct choice for your character. Cool shit

He hit 100 Insanity and was sent raving to an asylum.

It's the happiest ending you can get in 40k.

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>>49925544
Fair and accurate.

Still, fucking savages, and it's morbidly hilarious how they've revised history to america nuking them after surrender, and how noble japan dindunuffin.

>>49917464
Call me bloodthirsty, but They definitely had those coming.

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>>49915964
Surprisingly, yeah.

My stormtrooper medic somehow survived

>all-out Eldar assault on a hive world
>full scale daemonic incursion
>multiple encounters with very angry daemons
>getting ambushed by a platoon of inquisitorial stormtroopers
>disarming bomb collar put on him by a rival inquisitor because of petty inquisitorial politicking
>explosion of one of the said collar on the body of one of his party members
>the shenanigans of his necron-loving inquisitor
>crashing ecclesiarchial parade by paradroping a wing of valkyries on top of them
>boarding of a vessel overran by daemons and suffering from catastrophic warp drive failure
>close encounter with a rampaging renegade marine
>inquisitorial trial by Ordo Chronos
>beating the shit out of and capturing the lord inquisitor who put the collar on him
>friendly fire
>getting set of fire (usually of daemonic origin) multiple times
>being a double agent for another lord inquisitor, who was a master of "his" inquisitor
>running a free medical clinic in the underhive
>becoming a daemonology expert

In the end, he saved the world (along with the sector battlefleet), faked death of his love interest to detach her from the inquisition and sent her off-sector, distanced himself from his former employers and now runs a sizeable spy ring through a network of proxies to detect and root out heresies across the sector before they become a major problem.

I miss the old chap, he had a good run, especially considering he'd always joke about how there are no retired storm troopers. He's well into his forties at the time of our second campaign.

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>>49926071
What *is* that text from? I've never seen it before.

>>49926625
So you made Mordin Solus?

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>>49926763
see >>49925653

1000+ pages but hella worth it

>>49915964
No, but I hope their ending allows them to not become bitter after they outlive the party.

>>49925785
That is a myth fellow ausfag

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Did your characters start families?

>>49915964
A cockney witch hunter who opened a pub and whined to his regulars about how his wife and children were viciously murdered.
Don't ask.

Forced peace in the area around his Vault, crushed all opposing forces repeatedly, and acquired a nuke that he pointed at anyone who fucked with his home.

Ended up marrying the party medic, and ran a quasi-military for the Vault in the form of External Affairs.

Party got stuck in the infernal plane for some reason, when we found a way out my character, a half orc frenzied berserker (3.5), decided to stay where the chance of innocents getting hurt while in a frenzy were next to zero. Also he liked the idea of just letting loose on a killing rampage.

>>49926071
Who says what now? I've always heard the "THey actually surrendered cause of Russia" line all the time, but never that they had already surrendered.

I mean it's not really retirement but I ran a teenage softball player in a call of cthulhu game that survived.

Other than that all my characters end up dying in campaign or just keep adventuring until they die. Purposefully make characters that don't have an end game in case we decide to pick up the game later.

>>49926763
that's some damn good information. I want to see that kind of stat work compared to all other nations in the war, both allied and Axis. It'd be an interesting show of capabilities and production.

>>49929731
what system?

Did any one ever call his 'bluff' of the nuke, and then get nuked? what would he do if He used up that one time biggest stick?

>>49915964
Several. Two got married, one of whom is now a settled domestic while the other still goes on scholarly expeditions with his wife.

Apart from those two, one discovered the truth about his past, decided he didn't like it, and went off to go commit death by Undead Horde. Another was tried and imprisoned for war crimes.

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>>49915964
Oh, he was decomissioned from the Suicide Squad and officially pardoned for all his crimes by the President of the USA for services rendered to America and her people.

Then he went back to his homeland of Germany, where he had not set foot in 70 years, bought himself a nice little fiefdom, and lorded over it like a discount Nazi version of Dr Doom.

He was very glad to have dodged the Nuremberg Trials, by residing in a state of discorporated existence after his attempts to channel "The Force Cosmic" for the Nazi War Effort ended his his deconstitution.

>>49915964

LE assassin finally settled down with wife after Murdering greed, buying his soul back, and killing the same fucking wizard a third fucking time for good because he went all Voldemort on us and separated his mind, body, and soul. They had a kid who wound up going on her own adventure later.

Rolled 1, 4, 2, 3, 6, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 6, 6 = 51 (18d6)

>>49915964
He kinda blew up an Orc settlement by preparing a cartload of explosives and shrapnel in the middle of it and then spell sniper Searing Sun orbed it with a maximally charged spirit bomb.
Got caught in the blast.
Basically DM had my male variant human sun monk captured by orcs, my character bluffed them into believing him to be a brewer to make them "booze" (was actually an alchemists).
Now the DM instead of outright cockblocking my shenanigans went along with it.
Turns out the orcs drank enough alchemists fire to become explosive as well.
And thus I died in my own bombing attempt.

Was fun tho.