Real life PC thread

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Johannes Liechtenhaur spent most of his life traveling around Europe learning how to fight from the greatest swordsmen he could find.

Then he went home, taught a bunch of guys how to sword fight good, and gave birth to European swordsmanship as we understand it today.

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Alexander Gettler
>Born an Austrian Jew, immigrates to Brooklyn
>Worked his way through City College to a PhD in Biochemistry
>In 1918, at a time when every morgue is owned by criminals and autopsies are rarely performed, he takes a position with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
>Invented dozens of tests to isolate poisons from the human body
>Modernized toxicology to prove innocence or guilt in cases that used to be impossible to solve
>After losing a case in which cyanide is used as a poison, devotes years to perfecting the science of understand it
>Became one of the first scientists to ever testify in court and make forensic evidence a regular part of the court system
>After repeated budget cuts from crooked politicians under pressure and the onset of the great depression, continued his work for almost no pay despite having a family to support
>Fights prohibition with scientific evidence, showing how the ethanol distillations people are drinking instead are poisonous
>Stands against the entire automotive and petrol industry and the use of tetra-ethyl lead in leaded gasoline by publishing about and documenting just how terrible lead is for people
>Works until 75 and inspects over 100,000 bodies

>>50160378
>the nazi party

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Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart. I can not adequately summarise what a monstrous badass this man was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart

>>50160579
Fuck me. Reading that was a journey.

>>50160068
Lawerence "of" Arabia springs to mind.

>>50160068
>What are yours real life player characters?
tempted to say Louis Armstrong

>>50160579
Sounds more like a plot-critical NPC than a PC

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>>50161807
Beat me to it.

Do single-act guys count, or is an entire career of badassery needed?

Pic related, Lachhiman Gurung, VC, Gurkha:

Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung was manning the most forward post of his platoon which bore the brunt of an attack by at least 200 of the Japanese enemy. Twice he hurled back grenades which had fallen on his trench, but the third exploded in his right hand, blowing off his fingers, shattering his arm and severely wounding him in the face, body and right leg. His two comrades were also badly wounded but the rifleman, now alone and disregarding his wounds, loaded and fired his rifle with his left hand for four hours, calmly waiting for each attack which he met with fire at point blank range.
Of the 87 enemy dead counted in the immediate vicinity of the Company locality, 31 lay in front of his section, the key to the whole position. Had the enemy succeeded in over-running and occupying Lachhiman Gurung's trench, the whole of the reverse slope position would have been completely dominated and turned. Although surrounded and cut off for three days and two nights, the unit held and smashed every attack.

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Piper Bill.
Aka: Why your bard should play the bagpipes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Millin

>>50160068
Ugh, goddammit Frank, nobody cares about your tumblr account, roll a goddamn male like a normal person

Julie d'Aubigny, real life bard.
>In Villeperdue, still wearing men's clothing, she was insulted by a young nobleman. They fought a duel and she drove her blade through his shoulder. The next day, she asked about his health and found out he was Louis-Joseph d'Albert Luynes, son of the Duke of Luynes. Later, one of his companions came to offer d'Albert's apologies. She went to his room and subsequently they became lovers and, later, lifelong friends.
Jim Steranko, rogue and comicbook artist.
>Eventually they caught me and I had to give up my guns. I had many guns. A complete arsenal. My two pearl-handled .38s, 30 pistols, and countless rifles, we had .45s and a submachine gun that shot nine millimeter parabellum shells. I carried that gun home, walking along the streets of Reading with it over my shoulders, across my back, like you carry a baseball bat when you're a kid. And nobody noticed me, I guess, 'cause they didn't stop me. I was only in jail until my trial, about a month, and they had me in solitary with a 24-hour guard because of my history as an escape artist. They knew all it would take me was three minutes and I'd be out. I was placed on probation--I was still a juvenile delinquent at the time. But I had to pay back what I had stolen, make restitution for whatever stuff I had done. It took me a couple of years to do that.

Diogenes
>Claimed to be a "citizen of the world"
>Slept in a giant jar in the marketplace by choice
>Minted obscenities into Greek currency
>Walked around with a lantern during the daytime claiming he was "looking for an honest man"
>Urinated on people frequently
>Was offered a place as an advisor to Alexander the Great, responded by telling him "out of the way, you're blocking my sunlight"

>>50162867
what a guy

>>50162867
Special snowflake.

Edgy PCs: the thread.

>>50162867
Definitely a PC, he ignored adventure hooks.

>>50162609

>implying tumblr know jazz

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Persuade skill checks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale

>>50164555

I should have posted an example:

>he noticed the location where airlines and car rental businesses, such as United Airlines and Hertz, would drop off their daily collections of money in a zip up bag and then deposit them into a drop box on the airport premises.
>Using a security guard disguise he bought at a local costume shop, he put a sign over the box saying "Out of Service, Place deposits with security guard on duty" and collected money in that manner.
>Later he disclosed how he could not believe this idea had actually worked, stating with some astonishment: "How can a drop box be out of service?"

I'd say that Georgory Constanovich Zukov would count.
>Born into a dirt poor village, his family literally didn't have a last name, Zukov was the name of the village
> join the imperial army and rise to a low command position through skill
>Join the reds for the civil war, going up the ranks even higher
> Be sent to the east during the purge, both saving him from the paranoia and fucking DESTROYING the japanese at Khalkin Gol
> be stalins fireman throughout the 2n'd world war, being sent to all the worst spots and winning
>being marshall of the second strongest armed forces on earth

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>wanted to be a spy and asked the british for work
>they refuse
>approached the nazis instead who accepted him
>his mission was to set up base in London
>he moved to Lisbon instead
>"using a tourist's guide to Britain, reference books and magazines from the Lisbon Public Library, and newsreel reports he saw in cinemas"
>"created seemingly credible reports that appeared to come from London. He claimed to be travelling around Britain and submitted his travel expenses based on fares listed in a British railway guide. A slight difficulty was that he did not understand the pre-decimal system of currency used in Britain, expressed in pounds, shillings and pence, and was unable to total his expenses. Instead, he simply itemised them, and said that he would send the total later."
>creates a network of spies that work for him and all report back to the nazis, the british find out and shit their pants, start a full on spy hunt
>his spy network doesn't actually exist, he made it up to seem more credible to the nazis
>british finally found out about him and started cooperating
>along the way he kept feeding the nazis information that was always just enough off not to be helpful or came just a little bit too late
>the nazis were paying him the salary for all his 7 "agents" (his "network" consisted of 27 people in total including misc. informants), he just pocketed it
>at one point tells germany that an agent has died and left behind a widow, they send him extra money as compensation
>played a major part in winning the war
>nazis later on awarded him a medal, never found out
>the british gave him a medal too making him the only known person to receive medals from both sides of the war
This motherfucker right here is Revolver Ocelot in real life, just look at his smug fucking face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa

>>50161807
Thank you for this, holy shit. I had no idea such a man could exist.

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>>50160068

Bass Reeves

>born into slavery in Crawford County, Arkansas in 1838
>During the American Civil War, escapes, "because Bass beat up George after a dispute in a card game."
>fled Indian Territory and lived where he hung out with the Cherokee, Seminole, and Creek Indians
>moved to Arkansas got married had 11 kids
> becomes the first black deputy west of the Mississippi River after he's hired by U.S. Marshal James F. Fagan
>worked for thirty-two years as a federal peace officer but is never was never wounded, despite having his hat and belt shot off on separate occasions
>tracks down his own son to bring him to justice in for murder of his wife
> arrested over 3,000 felons including some of the most notorious outlaws of the day like Belle Starr, the "Bandit Queen of Dallas," and notorious bank robber and murderer Bob Dozier . Has killed at least 14 outlaws
>at 68, became an officer of the Muskogee, Oklahoma police department when Oklahoma became a state walking the beat with a cane and a revolver.

a lawman's lawman.

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R.I.P. Captain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Zelea_Codreanu

>>50162650
>Julie d'Aubigny
jesus, I just read her wikipedia page. She wasn't just a real life bard, she may be the ur-bard imprinted onto our racial memory that gave rise to all subsequent bard-stereotypes that we know today.

>Eventually, she grew bored of Sérannes and became involved with a young woman. When the girl's parents put her away in the Visitandines convent in Avignon, Maupin followed, entering the convent as a postulant.

>In order to run away with her new love, she stole the body of a dead nun, placed it in the bed of her lover, and set the room on fire to cover their escape.[3] Their affair lasted for three months before the young lady returned to her family. Maupin was charged in absentia—as a male—with kidnapping, body snatching, arson, and failing to appear before the tribunal. The sentence was death by fire.

>>50166398
Now that's a professional shitposter.

>>50163712
I know those feels, bro.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof#Honours_and_namesakes

>Zamenhof is honored as a deity by the Japanese religion Oomoto, which encourages the use of Esperanto among its followers.

>>50160068
>got both her legs amputated, lived 3 years after that
>on her last day, she asked to sit outside, stood there for an hour
>legs amputated
>stood

>>50162541
fuck beat me to it
Class: Ranger
Favored Enemy: Communism

>>50160068
Timothy dexter.
This is what happens when you simply roll well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter

>>50160579
>>Fights prohibition with scientific evidence, showing how the ethanol distillations people are drinking instead are poisonous

Intentionally tainted to be poisonous by pro-prohibition government regulators.

>>50162650
>Julie d'Aubigny
Came to post her, complete bad ass. She also had herself a lesbian lover who got sent to a convent over it, so she sprung her lover and set fire to the room after leaving a stolen nun corpse in there to make it look like she died in the fire.

>>50171612
and totally missed someone had already mentioned the nun thing because I just searched the name once.

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>>50171886
yep... guess we're just going to have to deal with this now

>>50174046
That's some mixmaxed charisma shit.

Also what the fuck kind of class-oriented lynch mob was this?
>We're not racist, we just hate how uneducated blacks are! So we'll kill them all!
>Oh you want to be a teacher? God bless you, nigger.

What??

>>50168195
Prosthetic legs

>>50167520
How do you get a belt shot off and survive?

>>50174271
It skims the side, cutting through the leather and probably fucking up your hip a little bit.

I'm sure he wasn't walking for a few weeks afterwards, unless he's literally the luckiest person in history and it managed to hit the belt but none of his flesh.

>>50167690
>>50162650
I now know why people write smut about real people.

>>50174289
>>50174271

>"He stepped out into the open, 500 yards away, and commenced shooting with his Winchester rifle, his first bullet cut a button off my coat, and [the] second cut my bridle reign in two. I shifted my six-shooter and grabbed my Winchester and shot twice. He dropped, and when I picked him up I found that my two bullets had hit within a half-inch of each other."

he had the devils luck, the man supposedly never got hit once despite having his belt shot in two, his hat brim shot away, a button on his coat shot off, and his bridle reigns cut in half by bullets.

>>50160068
I worked in the hospital where and when she died. Met her son. Drove his classic tbird

>>50174449
Wait, did you steal his car?

Unless you were a valet or something, but I don't know many hospitals that have those.

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>>50174402
>reigns

Reins. The one with a g is what royalty does while alive.
Without a g is the thing you hold to control a horse.

>>50174467
Valet.

>>50174481
Oh good. Had me worried for a second then.

>>50171612
>>50171625
She did fight three men in a rose garden because one of them saw her getting a little too touchy-feely with his paramour at a party.

>>50174490
Wait. Wait. I got Ella Fitzgerald confused with Etta James. My bad.

>>50160068
Audie Murphy comes to mind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

>>50171886
BBEG confirmed.
Next time yout PC's ask "Why would the locals allow an asshole king/wizard/whatever to rise to power?" Point to this fuck.

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Leo Major

>Riding on truck in Netherlands, 1944
>Truck hits landmine
>Wakes up in hospital with a broken back in three places, four ribs, and both ankles
>Flees the hospital and back to his unit before he could be sent home
>Unit about to launch operation to liberate the town of Zwolle
>His squad gets sent in on a recon mission
>Encounter Germans, friend dies, rest of squad runs
>Continues his mission alone
>Gets into the city and goes Rambo, firing his machine gun everywhere, throwing grenades and making so much noise the Germans think the Canadian army is attacking
>Captures 10 German squads throughout the night, escorts them to friendly soldiers outside the city
>Burns down the Gestapo HQ
>Breaks into the SS HQ, guns down SS officers
>4 hours after he started, the entire German garrison has retreated from the city
>Recognized as the single hero of Zwolle, made an honorary citizen, street gets named after him
>Served again in the Korean War, where he and a 20-man platoon held a hill against two Chinese divisions for three days
>Survived the war, died in 2008

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>>50160068
Good ol' Teddy Roosevelt
>Too much shit to list, just look him up. he was a total badass, and even volunteered to lead a unit in WW! at 58 years old.

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>>50160068
Former tank batallion commander.
Former SAS.
Baronet.
Fired FROM the SAS for blowing up a film set, with explosives obtained from training exercises by efficient use of less explosives.
Former mercenary.
First man to circumnavigate the globe north to south.
First man to navigate the Nile by hovercraft.
Discovered a lost city in the desert, after chasing rumours he heard while a mercenary.
First unsupported trip to the south pole.
Seven marathons, seven continents, seven days, one heart attack.
Got frustrated with the process of getting his frostbite-afflicted fingertips amputated properly, and sawed them off in his shed.
Many other feats I just can't remember because there's so many of them.

The man's a professional adventurer. He goes and does cool things, then gets paid to write books about them and talk about them.
And he's a damn good storyteller.

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>>50174635
>TR

my brother of African American descent

>>50174635

To play devil's advocate though, there are a lot of stories about Teddy that had more to do with his friends in journalism wanting to sell papers via stories about him than with anything he actually did.

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>>50174682
You know it, m'negro
>>50174698
>doctors told him he had a weak heart, and thus couldn't do much
>said fuck that shit, Took up boxing
>Graduated with honors from harvard too
>Got into politics, rose through the ranks, but left to join the military
>Formed and led the rough riders in a charge at San Juan during Spanish-American war, and recieved medal of honor (posthumously, like in 2001) for his service.
>came back, more politics
>Was hated by politicians due to his strict enforcement of rules and dedication to reform
>Youngest president ever
>Modified American Football to what we know it today
>survived an assassination attempt, but gave a 90 minute speech before seeking medical attention, all while running for president of a political party he started himself
>Retired, went and killed animals in Africa
>also, somewhere along the line, he went blind in one eye from boxing
There's a lot of awesome shit there, regardless of what Yellow Journalism may have followed him

>>50166398
Dumbfounded

>>50174402
things like this makes me believe the world is westworld and that these sort of people are guests

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Simo Häyhä, known as "Valkoinen Kuolema", the White Death. A legend.
>just google him
Greetings to all Finnish people, you're awesome, guys.

>>50160068
10/10 would take the A train.

>>50166398

>>the british gave him a medal too making him the only known person to receive medals from both sides of the war

I should point out, he may not have been the only one in WWII to win medal on both sides, but he won the Iron Cross, Germany's highest honor, while working as a double agent.

Guy was the DM of Germany's WWII spy shenanigans.

Not very many female PCs out there.

>>50175895

Sort of. Notice that there's a pretty strong theme of military stories here, which biases the set a bit.

>>50175389
I actually like the trombone-and-plunger version of that song better than the scat version, but goddamn, her rendition was amazing.

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This lady kind of counts.

Her mother was a slave, yet she had enough business sense to overcome a lot of the prejudice of her time and become one of the wealthiest self-made woman ever up to that point. A lot of people call her the first self-made female millionaire, which is inaccurate by a few hundred grand, but she was fucking loaded anyway.

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>>50172585
>>50174587
Cry more libcucks, your tears are delicious.

>>50176022
>lose popular vote
>claim popular uprising
ok

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Witold Pilecki

Volunteered to go into Auschwitz, killed Nazis while in the camp by infecting them with diseases he obtained working at the infirmary. Escaped the camp when he decided he couldn't do anything more there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Magnus_Sprengtporten#/search
>get sent to a Crinean war to observe, never get there in time, because spent too much time drinking in inns
>meets Benjamin Franklin, decides to found a new nation
>fought on both sides between Russia and Sweden, wounded in a fight against an unit he himself founded

Something about his story just makes it very PC.

>>50174635
>Became utterly broken after one of his sons died in the war
Ain't nothing good about WWI

>>50162480

What is the point of the VC if not a PC identification badge

>>50174201
People will often defer to leaders when in mobs and large groups. If you can bamboozle a leader of a bunch of fuck wits who were just following a crowd, you can pretty much turn them to whatever you want within reason.

It is the entire premises high school football teams work on. Convince your socially inclined, popular players to get worked up about something and they will have the entire team ready to rip dicks off to get it.

>>50176111
It's still way more of a popular uprising than it should have been.

I've said it for years now, if I was the type to believe in conspiracy theories with out any real evidence then I would think that the whole SJW movement was a conspiracy to discredit progressivism. Surely it can't just be a closely they mirror conservatives in many ways

>>50178723
>PC identification badge

Do you have some kind of brain damage? It signifies that he won a Victoria Cross.

>>50162319
No, he's That Guy with a scat fetish.

>>50174201
I'm assuming that he was specifically being lynched for some sort of crime (that he probably didn't commit, but he was black AND and outsider so they didn't care)

He didn't just convince them that he was trying to raise money for black education, but that he didn't commit the crime.

Not a PC, but quite possibly the greatest animal companion that ever lived.

>>50178769
If you genuinely believe the main reason for Trump's rise was SJWS and not decades of it being established that the establishment was cocks, there's no helping you.

>>50178874
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_Stubby
Shit, forgot link.

>>50160068
The Apostle Paul comes to mind. Dude was imprisoned, beaten, and shipwrecked on multiple occasions.

>>50179045
>that session where the DM forgot the Jew Paladin wasn't born in Jewish territory and is actually a legit citizen of the Empire
He's also clearly a villain repurposed as a PC for a new player.

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>>50160068
Pier. Gerlofs. Motherfucking Donia.

>Got married and had two kids
>Family's village is caught in the crosshairs of a civil war in the Netherlands
>The Habsburgs hire a landsknecht band called the Black Band, who were notoriously violent, to go crush the rebellion
>The Black Band attacks his village, rapes and murders his wife, burn down the village church, and burns down his home
>Pier sweats revenge, leads a guerrilla war campaign against the Habsburgs in retaliation
>Is believed to have been 7 feet tall, and was allegedly so strong he could behead multiple people with one swing of his greatsword. Said greatsword is now in a museum, measuring 7 feet long and weighing 14 pounds.
>Fought with much success both at land and sea (yeah, he was a pirate too), even capturing an entire war fleet that was sent to deal with him.
>Unfortunately, the Habsburgs were simply too rich and too powerful, and won the war. He ended up retiring in 1519, disillusioned with the world. He died peacefully in bed about a year later.

>>50162867
Don't forget the time he masturbated in public, or the time he heard Plato classify man as "featherless bipeds", and Diogenes came back with a plucked chicken and said "Behlod! I have brought you a Man!"

>>50176283
Sad story, that. When the soviets rolled in they had him executed as a traitor. A swedish metal band wrote a song about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvDg7UftJw8

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>>50178874
>>50178882
I don't know man, there's strong competition for that

>>50181543
>you're being interrogated about your nazi connections
>make a diplomacy check
>1

Anyone know anyone who is/was probably a PC? I know some of you got some badass grandparents or some shit

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>when the pc backstory just keeps going and going

Soong Mei-ling
>born in the qing empire in 1897
>daughter of a chinese methodist businessman of all things
>move to the us
>start college at age 15, get major in literature and minor in philosophy
>move back to china, meet and marry chiang kai-shek, make him convert to christianity
>become engaged in chinese politics in the 1930s
>join the executive committee of the kuomintang
>husband becomes generalissimo, become translator and adviser
>hard work through the entirety of world war ii
>become involved with the republican candidate for president
>"You know, Mike, if Wendell could be elected, then he and I would rule the world. I would rule the Orient and Wendell would rule the Western world.”
>travel the west to rally support for the war against mao
>husband dies, retire from spotlight
>still politically active with influence in taiwan
>move to the us
>get cancer twice, survive
>get involved in art
>die in 2003, at age 106
>Life magazine called Madame the "most powerful woman in the world
>Liberty magazine described her as "the real brains and boss of the Chinese government."
>Clare Boothe Luce compared her to Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale.
>Ernest Hemingway called her the "empress" of China.

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>>50160068

Wow, another thread that gives me a reason to feel really shitty about myself.

>>50160579
what the hell was it with Austria at that time and brilliant scientists?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny

>>50178774
Dude, he is saying that whenever someone is awarded a VC, they are automatically PCs.

>the guy who keeps making PCs related to former PCs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dinesen
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.W._Dinesen
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Dinesen

The latter two will need some translation because they don't have an english wiki page, and that's not even the whole list.

>>50179230
Huh, there musta been multiple black bands in Germany at the time, because Geyer's black band was anti-Habsburger.

>>50160068
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

Quite possibly the greatest Pirate who ever lived.

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I know he's in vogue right now, but I can't resist.

> Born out of wedlock to a Scotsman in the Caribbean, technically a citizen of Denmark
> Openly wishes for war
> Immigrates to New York, gets into King's College and completes his education in two years
> Becomes friends with a tailor-spy, a French nobleman, an abolitionist and a lawyer
> Joins the American Revolution the first chance he gets, steals British cannon
> Gets to be the right hand man of George Washington
> Fucks everything in sight, to the point that Martha Washington allegedly names her feral tomcat "Alexander Hamilton"
> Fights in the biggest battles as a commissioned officer, led the final assault on the British in the last major land battle of the American Revolution
> After war, specializes in defending British subjects against legal claims by US citizens
> Writes the lion's share of the Federalist Papers, laying the groundwork for America's government
> Co-writes George Washington's valedictory address
> Starts the national bank and establishes credit for the United States
> Pisses off Thomas Jefferson, ends up starting two party system
> Has the first sex scandal of the nation
> Gets in a fight with Thomas Jefferson's vice president
> Gets shot and dies in the arms of his wife, whose sister he may or not have been banging on the side

>>50162480
If a man says he doesn't fear death, he's lying or a Gurkha

>>50183578
Yeah, he was totally badass, what with stealing nukes from the Lizards and all that other miscellaneous badassery.

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>born into a noble family
>dad's business goes bankrupt, forced to sell most of what he owned
>said dad later runs away to paris with his mistress
>mother can't handle this and dies to heart failure
>adopted by his uncle
>has disciplinary problems in school, uncle decides to sent him to cadet school
>decides fuck this shit and gets expelled, then gets himself to a better private school
>decides that he wants to become a soldier, gets to a cavalry school in st. petersburg
>gets to the chevalier cavalry regiment
>godmother arranges him a marriage with a rich noblewoman
>russo-japanese war happens, volunteers for serving in it
>gets promoted to a colonel after battle of mukden, ends up commanding an unit composed from local bandits and leads them on a mission to inner mongolia
>war ends, returns to st. petersburg
>gets asked if he wants to become a spy, agrees
>spends next 3 years by traveling across turkestan and china, gathering Intel and getting stoned by monks
>once returns back to russia is put in charge of an uhlan regiment in poland, in a year turns it into of one of the better performing regiments in poland
>promoted to commander of the imperial life guard's uhlan regiments
>first great kraut chimpout happens
>leads a cavalry division against austrians and germans, becomes a lieutenant general
>revolution happens, new bosses don't like his style gets moved to reserve while recovering from his injuries in odessa
>while recovering gets a invited into a spiritualist meeting, has his fate told by an oracle
>soon he would take a long journey and receive his highest position yet and would lead an army to victory, he would get great honors but then would volunteer to leave his position
>after that he would leave for the west and visit two great countries on a mission that would succeed,once he would return he would receive even higher position but it too would be short lived, after a year he would once again rise to a high position

1/?

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>>50184750
>once healed moves back to st. petersburg
>2nd revolution happens, gommies on the streets
>while lesser men hide their status and try to flee he calmly walks to the train station in his uniform and boards a train to finland
>arrives to freshly independent finland in december of 1917
>gommies are also a problem there
>gets declared as the supreme commander of the governmental forces in the january of 1918, while at it he is also made a general of cavalry
>finnish civil war happens, ends up leading the white forces against finnish communists
>leaves his position as the supreme commander in late may, visits europe and is tasked with trying to start diplomatic relationships with france and uk
>spends late 1918-early 1919 as the finland's regent and ends up being one who authorizes the finnish constitution, loses the first finnish presidential elections, divorces his wife and retires
>spends most of the 20s by doing various non-military and government related things
>30s arrive and shit starts to stir up again, becomes a field marshal in '33 and oversees the deveploment of finnish military during this era
>1939 winter war happens, surely the underequipped finnish army led by 72 years old mannerheim would lose in a week or two, end up holding out for 3 months and killing 100k russians
>peace happens
>everyone's favorite austrian corporal offers a deal, ally with us and we'll help you to get your lost clay back
>continuation war happens
>1942, gets promoted to the marshal of finland and receives a surprise visit by a certain one balled austrian
>he seems to want finland to push foward leningrad instead of just lazing around in karelia, but that would piss off the americans and soviets
>lights a cigar in front of hitler, hitler doesn't react, determines that hitler isn't in position to force finland to close the siege of leningrad and thus sitting around in trench continues

2/3

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>>50184784
>1944, soviets launch a grand offensive on karelian isthmus, president ryti decides to trick germans, makes a promise that if finland gets armed help from germany as long as he'll rule finland will not sue for peace
>germans agree, after the soviet offensive is stopped ryti retires and mannerheim becomes the president of finland
>makes peace with soviets and starts a war against germans, needless to say that krauts are less than amused by this trickery
>77 years old and already suffering from various health problems is forced to oversee the finnish war crime trials, there are demands from finnish communists that he should be tried too but soviets declare that as far as they're concerned he is completely innocent
>resigns and moves to switzerland where he spends his remaining years by battling against aging and writing his memoirs, dies in 1951 at the age of 83

3/3

>>50174636
Don't forget when he scared the shit out of Jeremy Clarkson.

>>50183509
It's the other way around.
Now I just want to take life as an adventure.

>>50186113
If you figure out how, care to share it with the rest of us?

>>50186163
Sure, not like I will get rid of this website anyway.

I'm already a chess-boxer/social sciences student, earning a living by childcare, modeling, being a museum gardian and a gardener, with a strange name and god genetics.

Plus I've been in many strange places.

>>50183572
Vienn and its intellectuals, plus quite a few aristocratic families living in the Austro-Hungarian empire who could produce men with the leisure time to become those hard working intellectuals, I think

>>50186198
Bastard. All I've got is an incurable disease and no employable skills.

>>50186198
>god
good, sorry

I have also very few money and not much future

>>50178880

It was that the establishment are cocks, but SJWs brought the thought processes of the establishment and their contempt out into the public on a scale that could no longer be put out of mind.

>>50176022
lib cuck tears.

Good lord. You are a sad human.

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Saint Olga of Kiev.
She probably had maxed out bluff and charisma, and fudged all of her rolls, then argued with the DM that she was still Neutral Good because drevlian babies are born CE.
>Be the wife of Kiev's ruler, Igor, her NPC husbando.
>NPC husbando gets killed by drevlians.
>DM has no idea he unleashed That Girl.
>"Well, now, they seem to want you to marry their prince."
>"OK, I have my men seize them and bury them alive."
>"Don't you want to be a bit more stealthy about the revenge plot?"
>She doesn't. Until she does. "Wait, I send a letter to the prince. I tell him I accept. I tell him to send me the best men he has to escort me."
>"... do you really think he'll fall for it NOW?"
>"But I rolled a 20!"
>GM sighs and rolls with it. After all, she seems to be willing to try out the political plot now.
>Nope, as soon as the NPCs are here "Well now that they are all in the same building, I tell my men to set them on fire."
>"You know this'll mean war, right?"
>"I'll bluff my way out of it."
>OK. Yeah the GM was a complete pushover.
>"Well now I invite the remaining drevlians to my husband's funeral feast!"
>"... you're aware drevlians do not have a negative bonus to wisdom and/or intelligence, right? They're statted as normal humans. There's no way they-"
>"I ROLLED A 20 YOU GOTTA LET ME DO IT."
>Drevlians get here. And, of course, she decides her men have to kill them all.
>This should have been an open war from the start, but nooo, That Girl insists her bluff checks are good enough, and That GM doesn't know how to react to anything. Still trying to fit his political marriage plot somewhere when it's clear there's no way she'll do anything even vaguely related to negociations.
>Well NOW that there are far less drevlians, she decides she'll go to war.
>Of course the drevlians beg for their lives.
>She accepts.

>>50189063
>Who am I kidding, she accepts and THEN she kills them all in their own city.
>By sending a flock of pigeons in the city.
>I wish I was kidding.
>She has her men send pigeons with sulfur attached to their legs, so they can set fire to the roofs when they perch there.
>Wat. Somehow the GM is okay with this.
>All burn. Survivors are slaughtered. Olga insists she's not chaotic evil. Loudly. She can't be chaotic evil, you see. She wants Saint as her prestige class, and Saints can't be chaotic evil.
>GM fucking drops it. I swear he was in love with the fucking mary sue murderhighborn's player. There was nothing she couldn't do in game.
>In retrospect, it sounds sort of badass, but there's no way any of this would have rolled under a competent GM.

>>50185245
Yeah.

While he's not really PC quality I always consider Jezza the perfect example of CHA not giving a shit about looks - I mean, even if you ignore having christmas parties with senior people in Murdoch's media empire and the leader of the opposition/PM, when he punched one of the Top Gear producers over something fairly trivial (a lack of steak, or any hot food as the hotel chef had gone home) a moderately sized portion of the general public were calling for the sacking of the man he punched, who then got sent death threats.
The man has shittons of CHA

>>50178723
why stop at one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Upham

>>50164590
>it's not piracy if you say you're doing it for queen and country

>>50189376

Jaysus. Knowing how stingy they are with a Vicky Cross, that man must've spent his spare time capsizing Axis shipping by standing on the decks of cargo ships and swinging around his monstrous neutronium balls.

>>50189063
She looks like a JoJo character.
I like.

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>>50181597
I fucking always get feels when I read the voytek story.

It's proof that there is a common thread that links all life in this world.

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It really can't be denied at this point.

>>50174941
>Russia creeping up on Finland
>War starts
>Häyhä is a sniper serving in the Finnish army
>Dresses in a completely white outfit, to keep hidden in the snowy mountainside in which he fought
>Becomes known as the White Death for this
>Kills a shit ton of Russians
>Russians send kill teams, specifically for Häyhä
>Doesn't kill him
>Russians say "Fuck it" and carpet bomb the forests
>Doesn't kill him
>Häyhä is eventually hit by an incendiary round in the face
>Doesn't kill him
>Häyhä is unconscious, but woke up the day the war ended
>Died at 96
>Häyhä has the highest sniper kill count of all time, 505 men

>>50184020
He was a shit shot though. The bullets he fired hit a tree twelve feet away. Burr's did not

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I feel like this guy was a PC made by a player who hated his GM's game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau

>descendant of Huguenots - French Protestants forced out of Catholic France
>tried to go to college, failed entrance exam
>joined a utopian sect that practiced free love, did not get any for the five years he was there, got nicknamed 'Charles Gitout'
>tried to start a newspaper, failed
>got a law license, did almost nothing
>tried to become a theologian, plagiarized a book and went from town to town rambling
>turned to politics, wrote a speech in support of Ulysses Grant called 'Grant vs. Hancock'
>later changed the title to 'Garfield vs. Hancock' after Garfield won the Republican nomination - did almost nothing else to it
>got little notice, but believed himself personally responsible for Garfield's victory and bothered the President and his cabinet to try and get an ambassadorship in Vienna and later Paris
>after he was told never to return, decided to shoot Garfield
>had to borrow fifteen dollars to buy the gun, bought one with ivory handles so it would look good in a museum (it has since been lost)
>got knocked over when he practiced shooting it
>postponed the assassination as to not upset Garfield's sick wife
>before the actual assassination, got his shoes shined and booked a cab to take himself to jail
>pleaded not guilty in court
>insulted the judge and his legal team, formatted his testimony in epic poems, asked random spectators for legal advice using notes
>ended a dictated autobiography by asking for a nice Christian woman under 30
>was completely oblivious to the public's hatred of him even after two assassination attempts, would always smile and wave to spectators, loved the attention
>was found guilty and sentenced to hang
>danced to the gallows, shook hands with his executioner
>sang and chanted a poem he'd written, stopped to cry often
>died almost instantly of a broken neck
>autopsy found he had phimosis

>>50178774

I'm guessing you thought that guy meant 'politically correct' instead of what the THREAD IS ABOUT. I can't fault you, since /pol/ now has reason to be emboldened.

>>50187473

More like SJWs bought super heavily into their own brand of American exceptionalism, and the elite fucking ran with that shit. I seriously doubt the power elite give a shit about race/gender politics except as a means of dividing their voter base further. Trump included. If you think he's some incorruptible force I have some news for you...

>>50184705
That brings up memories. Great job anon. Turtledove for the win.

>>50190823
The man is a great source of butthurt though, between him and brexit this year has been absolutely hilarious.

>>50169965
Lucky perk at max ranks, the person.

>>50190608
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-Gfeen-b8

And there's even a kind of shitty ballad about him.

Classic.

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>>50190437
Trump seems like a PC in a politics game where the player is quite a bit smarter than the GM. The GM keeps coming up with plausible, but unoriginal scenarios. Trump's player blows through them with plans so ludicrous, so unlikely that the GM can't /help/ but allow them to work.

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>>50190608
Jeez that's a terrible guy

Pic related:
Boxed with the Dali Lama
Survived a plane crash during an expedition to the jungles of Venezuela
Has attempted to climb Mount Everest three times without supplemental oxygen, reaching heights of 28,200 feet (8,600 m, 240m from the top) without reaching the summit.
Is the oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole on foot
Claims to have punched a polar bear on said expedition
Had a heart issue on stage and fell, was back performing 20 minutes later.
As a boy was a boxing champion and beat the shit out of someone who killed his cat - but could easily have done a lot worse. Also worked at an undertakers, cleaned the body and built a coffin for one of his best friends.
When he got an acting scholarship he and Patrick Stewart (who were close friends) couldn't afford the train down to Bristol - they hopped in a coal cart, arriving covered in coal dust and bird shit.
Has completed 800 hours of space training at Star City in Russia - plans to go to space for his (80th!) birthday. Also plans to descend the Challenger Deep.
Has an animal sanctuary with over 1000 animals
Has a 3rd dan black belt in Judo and lungs twice the size of a normal man
Climbed Mount Aconcagua in Argentina and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and possibly a volcano and other mountains as well (I know he planned to climb a volcano, anyway).
May have delivered a baby and cut the umbilical cord with his teeth - again, an anecdote though

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ármin_Vámbéry

>Born a cripple
>So poor he couldn't finish school
>decided it would be cool to go to the East
>blagged and tricked his way through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, disguising himself as an Arab
>first white person to do this

Pretty sure that's some high levels of Bard

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>>50193381
Not sure if these even count, but they were the first thing i thought of

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>>50193401
Last one

>>50189312
Don't forget when he punched out Piers Morgan. That's got to count for something.

>>50190491
You forget the fact that he killed the man who shot him with a reflexive snap-shot that went right through the other guy's scope and into his eye.

Or the face that Simo never used a scope on his rifle(s, the Finns gave him a better one when he was hitting his stride) because of the exact reason that allowed him to nail the guy who shot him; the light glinting off the lens.

>>50193049
>Has completed 800 hours of space training at Star City in Russia - plans to go to space for his (80th!) birthday.
In space, no-one can hear you scream... Unless you're Brian Blessed!

>>50193406
>>50193401
>>50193396
>>50193391
Who the fuck are these guys?

>>50193049
You forget that he's the only one who could get Sir Lawrence Olivier to turn up on set sober.
He threatened to beat the shit out of him if he kept turning up late and pissed

>>50194512
You mean Oliver Reed, you idiot. I don't think Blessed and Olivier ever worked together.

>>50181716
My great granddad
>aide de camp in the IRA
>fought in the Easter Rebellion
>Captured!
>for two years was tortured and abused in prison
>during a prisoner transport, he not only escaped but freed five other people as well
>got on the ferry to America and met a girl he's known all his life, because she had dated his seven brothers
>they end up married
>becomes a cop and later a business owner
And that is how a PC had their fun and earned their happy ending

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>>50194680
>because she had dated his seven brothers

Awesome great granddad, though

>>50194723
Trust me, the entire family laughes at this part but all we can conclude is that great grandmom knew what she liked but had to find the right flavor

>>50194247

Probably fake. Last time this came up I recall one crossposter from /pol/ mentioning that this story is pretty much concocted to feed into the board's established worldview, much like our That Guy threads.

>>50194780
Probably. I'm not entirely sure if I want it to be a lie or not.

>>50194791

It's always a tough one to call; on one hand it's ridiculous, on the other General Butt Naked is ridiculous and also real.

>>50181716
Irish Great granddad anon here. Posting from the other side of the family
>grandmom lived in Munich during WW2 as a teen
>had to work in a factory making something(no one actually told her what they were making) because cop dad died of gout
>her one day off that month went to the movies
>Americans bomb the theater during her movie
>spent the next day covered in gore and rubble as people dig to clear rubble
>everyone shocked she survived without a scratch
>farmer passing by offers her a ride home
>gets home, her mom opens the door and faints
>turns out that everyone had already accepted that my grandmom was already dead and thought it was a ghost for a bit
>went to work the next day
>1/2

>>50194801
Yeah, that's why I'm hesitant to write it off entirely.

Even someone like me knows by now that reality can be just that crazy sometimes.

>>50194820
>greataunt enlists in the army so the family would be able to get actual food instead of the meat they pretended was "venison"
>becomes a secretary in some bunker
>still a few months before war was to end
>grandmom and her mom wrote a letter to the army saying great aunt needed to come home because her mother died
>army believed it and sent greataunt home
>no plan after that and just waited to be executed together
>War ends! No retribution!
>Grandmom starts to work in a dinner durring the 50's so only in her early 20's
>granddad is GI during the Korean War but posted in Germany
>he instantly falls in love with her
>she does not
>he ends up meeting with her mom and sister, who love the idea of these two together
>conspire to get them together and eventually grandmom goes on a date
>few months later they marry
>granddad signs up for a few more years so her family can be brought over
>she opens a Baskin Robins for over 30 years and co-owned the dinner granddad opened, which is still run by my aunt
>hospitalized after the fourth stroke because the first three didn't really do anything
>died a few years ago at the age of 89

>>50194821
Especialy for the ultra-rich.
But it fits some memes to perfectly (SJW delusions, African impregnation) to be true.
Entertaining, though

SOme elements also make it sound like something a mythomaniac would forge (the fatsuit, for example)

>>50194921
I did think the first one sounded like something I'd write whilst on a fetish kick.

But then again...

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>When the PC railroads the campaign with his Neutral Evil character, in a quest to become the new Genghis Khan, even though that's not the goal of the campaign.

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>>50176111
>it's not democracy when I lose

I love the fact that America was never even supposed to be true democracy and this is the entire point of Republic, to establish a balance where you can't just win by appealing to the masses, but the elite in the cities can't opress 99% of the country's landmass. The system was rigged in Hillary's favor, in the favor of the elites living in highly populated areas, even before the rigging of her of her own came into play.

And she still lost.

She lost to fucking Donald Trump.

Can you imagine somebody getting blown the fuck out for life this hard?

>>50184020
damn, came here to post this, if you had a campaign set in the revolutionary war Hamilton would be your standard "tragic backstory but rolled high in intelligence" PC

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>>50198299
>have a pussywhipped husband
>he becomes a president
>ends up having a sex scandal
>fast forward decade and a half
>try to become a president yourself
>your opponent ends up being a walking joke with no brain-to-mouth filter
>manage to fucking lose against him

This year has been a one wild ride and the next one is probably gonna be more of the same.

>>50181716
Ooooooh yeah. This was a guy I'm friends with, for the sake of the storytime I'm going to call him Ben. This guy has lived a hilarious life, but I'm gonna tell my favorite story I heard from him.

>Ben works at a bank
>Recession comes up
>His boss comes to him an says on the down low that he wants Ben to start tracking his (the boss's) coworkers' numbers for him, so he can have better numbers. He does this cause it looks like lay-offs are on the horizon.
>Ben thinks about it for a day, calls his boss in and says he'll do it
>Bank has a network file with a bunch of spreadsheets from everyone's work on it. Ben says he'll track the numbers there, on a file titled STSS for Super Top Secret Shit.
>Ben is worried about putting it there, but as Ben explains to him, no one pays attention to the shit there that doesn't pertain to them personally.
>So Ben does this, but then lay-offs come and he gets fired.
>Whatever, he was thinking of moving to another state anyways
>While at the FLGS he gets a call from his boss
>BenYoureAGenius.wav
>Turns out his boss's bosses saw the STSS spreadsheet, but completely misinterpreted what the numbers meant. Ben's boss thus gets a promotion for heading the "STSS Project".
>Boss offers Ben a new job in gratitude. Ben laughs his ass off but turns him down, plans have already been made for his move out-of-state.

And that was just my favorite one I remember. This guy gets into shenanigans all the god damn time.

>>50184020
>>50198375
also
> "Becomes friends with a tailor-spy, a French nobleman, an abolitionist and a lawyer"

if that isn't a sickass party