ITT Cliched characters. Let me get the obvious ones out of the

>>51231665
> ITT Best characters

>>51231665
did you mistake archetype for cliche?
the provided list alone could make an interesting party

The non-straight/non-white x that has multi coloured hair that exist just to be edgy but actually brings nothing new to the table and is the definition lf a cop-out?

>>51231722
FPBP

>>51231665
Cliches become cliches because they work.

Any woman character with a charisma over 6.

>>51231738
>if
Of*

>>51231757

Any woman with charisma equal to or below six see; any voice-acted show that's usually male-casted but has to bring in a female voice actor to voice female characters who is not of the same caliber as a voice actor, as experienced, or as familiar with the show, so just just kind of a woman reading the lines. Robot Chicken is an easy example, at least their earlier seasons.

>>51231665
3/10 got me to reply

good thing i'm playing a gay drow boy

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Any female warrior who has essentially a man's personality and a man's fighting style but is a qt girl because it suits the creator's preferences. Double cliche points if she's gay. 10x cliche points if she's gay and it's a source of drama.

>>51231665

>any nonhuman characters
all the same cliched garbage defined by their race
only playing as humans allows for truly free roleplaying

>>51231665
OTB trash threads

Let me get the obvious ones out of the way.

>this shit thread.

>>51231665
>>tumblr

>>51232001
No you

>>51231665
Thus far in 5e I've played;
>half-orc male OotA paladin who was promiscuous
>tiefling male warlock with an incredibly cheery disposition to hide his crippling anxiety, also liked apples.
>drow male divination wizard working as an investigator in the city guard, trying to earn enough money to start his own school of wizard inquisitors
>middle eastern human male rogue with his ultimate weapon being his uncanny ability to bullshit his way out of most situations, died enough times to be partially insane and functions like an extremely paranoid diplomacy-bot. (Curse of Strahd, tons of revives in there for some reason)

Am I cliché yet, ma?
Forreal though, who gives a shit, let people play what they want.

>>51231665
Half of those descriptions are so vague they barely apply to anything. "Fighter with a Strength weapon of any sort", for example, says literally nothing about the character.

I love me some diversity, but this thread is dumb, and you are dumb, and you make dumb threads.

So I'm going to pretend your post said "ITT Cliched character." and stopped there, and proceed from there as though this weren't bait.

>orphaned at young age, seeking vengeance for parents' death as sole motivation to adventure

>>51232032
>with his ultimate weapon being his uncanny ability to bullshit his way out of most situations
I like playing those types of characters. One time I got past a guardian sphinx by making it feel ashamed of how bad it was at its job.

>>51231665
>straight white human male
>>>/tumblr/

>>51232130
Then go there fag lord

>>51232111
I've usually avoided those types of characters because I've for some reason felt like I was incredibly shitty at it.

But once I got into my rogue, holy shit it was a ton of fun.

>>51232233
One of the consequences of years of child abuse is that I'm an absolutely fantastic liar. But I don't enjoy lying in normal circumstances. Playing silver-tongued scoundrels gives me a chance to flex my deceptive instincts in a way that doesn't make me feel guilty. It's great.

Another character in a similar vein to the sphinx-shamer got tired of walking so she convinced the fighter to carry her on his shoulders so she "had a better vantage point for spotting traps".

>>51232322
I'm very similar, except it wasn't really necessitated by my upbringing or so, I've always just naturally had a way to be very convincing and quick-witted.

It's a good skill to have.


I think the one thing my rogue did that I was moderately proud of was talking down a NE wizard guarding some ancient ruins, and then convincing him to help us as much as he can.

Thinking of making more characters like that.

>>51232398
I like mixing up my characters, but my two recurring archetypes are "quick-witted huckster" and "well-meaning but naive powerhouse".

I had an Evil warlock in 4e where I had high Charisma, trained Bluff, took Skill Training (Bluff), and took the Beguiling Tongue utility spell. THAT was fun.

There was the time our party convinced a monastery that their god was angry with them so our rogue could steal an artifact of theirs. The Bluff check wasn't quite high enough, so one person saw through the ruse. But fortunately I shouted "burn the heretic!" and while they did not ultimately burn the heretic, they spent enough time contemplating burning the heretic that we were able to make a break for it.

Oh yeah, and our DM set up this moral dilemma where we could finish this mission (competing against another group of NPC adventurers for great rewards) or we could go help rescue an NPC who'd helped us in the past. I just ran up to the rival group and told 'em "the mission parameters have changed. Your new goal is to help find this guy."

>>51232496
Oh yeah, and she burned down an inn to trap the people who were pursuing us, then ran crying to the town guard about the awful men who'd set fire to the inn.

I should play another Evil character one of these days.

>>51232496
>that last one
Fucking genius.

I also have two archetypes I keep falling back on aswell. One being the master bullshitter after I discovered how fun they are, the other being jaded, paranoid casters for some reason.

I've been thinking of making a warlock in 5e, mainly for the fun to be had with disguise self at will and whatnot.

>>51232569
Ooh. Tell me about your paranoid spellcasters.

>disguise self at will
I totally forgot about that. That is ripe for some creative abuse.

>>51232674
All of the games I played casters in never went further than 4th level unfortunately due to circumstances.

However, one stands out in that I was playing an elf Divination Wizard, and this was way back when PF was just getting up and running, who was pretty much a prohibition-era officer that's been stuck in a rut for the last 14 years. Those levels of apathetic annoyance, paranoia and alcoholism.

The setting was a homemade one by our DM, which ended up getting fairly interesting as one of my party members who was a rogue(who is also fairly adept at bullshitting), decided to become Walter White and started manufacturing drugs, and also stole a large ship filled with illegal substances and contraband right from under the guards noses.
I basically started sniffing his trail from day one so he started to become increasingly nervous, moving his goods in and out of the city while I was getting increasingly closer.

The campaign unfortunately got shelved and ended before we could clash, but there had been several close calls where we'd bump into eachother and have the most nerve-wracking conversations.

>>51232835
Intense.

And I know your pain. One of my all-time favorite characters was for a game that only lasted like five sessions. I'm planning on bringing her back if I ever get a 5e game running again.

>>51232874
Yeah I'm bringing back my Divination Wizard, albeit in Storm Kings Thunder in 5e, but it'll be nice to have him back.

There are probably a ton of characters whom I'll want to bring back again sooner or later, so many campaigns that ended prematurely.

Luckily I have a few friends I've been roleplaying with for.. I think 14 years now?
So we've basically always got something going on. Longest hiatus we've taken was 8 months back when two were attending basic military training.

>>51232920
My problem is that almost everyone I know who plays or who is interested in playing TTRPGs either
a) is one of my old high school pity friends, and I do not want to spend time with them; or
b) moved far away, or else already lived far away.
And there's one person who lives nearby with whom I enjoy spending time, and she found another group while I was trying to put one together.

>>51232963
I am glad I do not have to feel those feels.

I sincerely hope you can find a nice group to hang out with.

>>51233003
I've got two players committed. If I can get two more, I'll go for it.

>>51233018
You can do it!

Speaking of, my groups next session is tomorrow, currently doing Curse of Strahd. Upside is that I get to bullshit my way out of more things.
Downside is that my character is basically reduced to a wretched shell of misfiring nerves and partial insanity due to all the times I've been revived.

For sone reason, I haven't had a combat in this entire campaign which didn't leave me at around 10hp from death. And we're lvl 8 at the moment.

>>51233068
How are you fighting, exactly? Are you using hit-and-run tactics?

>>51231738
>white straight male fighter with a sword is a cool archetype
>black gay female fighter with a sword is edgy cliche
Next you're going to tell me that playing a human makes you smart.

>>51233094
I used to be a cleric/rogue multiclass using hit-and-run tactics, kept getting destroyed however.
I then basically respecced to Thief rogue with Crossbow Expert and Sharpshooter to be a ranged hit-and-run type of character.
Keep getting destroyed nonetheless.

It's not that the DM is fudging the dice or anything, I just have the absolute shittiest luck for some reason.
Not to mention 6 of my 8 or so natural 1's throughout the campaign have been on death saves, which count as two failures in one roll.

>>51233150
Huh.

Well, it's made for an interesting twist to your character. The advantage (of sorts) of swinginess is that it forces you to adapt, though I don't think usually quite on this scale.

>>51233184
Yeah it's been a wild ride thus far, probably only to get even wilder as our party sorcerer has contracted a fairly severe personality flaw of seeking power at all costs.

And we're in a place where there are like 14 or 15 sarcophagi that grants dark and terrible gifts. Sure you gain a LOT of power, but the drawbacks are horrendous on most of them.

My character hasn't touched one yet.

>>51233224
Much as I'd like to hear more, I'm getting quite sleepy and have some stuff I'd like to finish up.

Good luck with your game.

>>51233254
You too, have a good night.

>>51231665
This party's sessions must go on forever considering all the privilege checks that have to be made.

>>51231665
>You can't play a straight white human male
I tend to default to elves or half elves and even I think you are a colossal fruit.

>>51231665

>OP who is a faggot that shitposts on Japanese Image Boards

>>51231665
>not being straight
>whining about men
>whining about whites
Tumblr is that way. Fuck off.

>>51233482
d20 + 2(Base Privelege Modifier)

-1 Penalty for being White
-1 Penalty for being Male
-1 Penalty for being Straight
-1 Penalty for being Human

So all of OP's characters take a -4 on Privelege Checks, except for the Bard who takes a -5 for being a whore and the Fancy Hat Rogue who takes a -3 for maybe being gay

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>>51231665
the only thing these thigns have in common is "straight white human male"
now I dont live in america, but my impression is that "straight" is the most common orientation, and "human" is the most common race, and most RPG players are "male", and the "white" population is roughly 60% of your people
so you have a problem with people making their character be like themselves?

>>51232032

Friendly Warlocks a best.

>wanting special snowflake parties
they can work but spending half of your campaign being smack talked by every peasant and noble in the kingdom because you're the weirdest motherfuckers they've ever seen gets old real quick

>>51231665
I've played in parties where almost everyone is a special snowflake and I end up being the only person whose backstory isn't a sob story. As it turns out, when everyone is special, no one is.

>>51234010
lets assume the party is no different from any other party, they still wont attract attention, because the town gets crazy weirdos at least twice a month

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>>51231665
Nah, fuck you, OP.
All your butthurt does is make me want to write a bunch of 'original characters' and put in a straight white male just to tuffle your tush.
I haven't played a white male in years, though, if it bandages your bothered bottom.

>>51234031
well let us assume they indeed get crazy weirdos every now and then.
if they do they'd also know a group of crazy weirdos tends to lead to the town burning down, sudden series of murders around town or a conspiracy being uncovered and half the town getting slaughtered by these freaks

like I said it can work, especially in a noble bright setting where humanity isn't 90% of the non-secluded populace and non-humans have equally high social ranking members as humans in their ranks, but this is rarely the case

>>51234143
everybody knows that when the lv10 wizard walks into town, he is most likely there to either solve the evil giants problem, or to kill the evil lv 10 weirdo who has taken residence in the spooky castle

>>51234010
My character in my one and only D&D campaign was a neurotic, moody, cowardly rogue. It doesn't fit with the stuff in the OP yet I wouldn't say I made a special snowflake.

I miss that character, by god. I've joined another group on a different system by now and it doesn't really feel the same despite putting WAY more work into him. I felt he was the exact kind of character I could convincingly play.

> straight white human male
You mean bisexual bishonen special snowflake Elf, like Drizzt was?
Cease your faggotry, OP.

>>51234167
t. wizard

>>51234171
Maybe your mind is tainted by the image of how you played him too much to ever play him again like you first did.
I'd never try and recreate the exact same character because of that and the fact that they might not fit the current campaign as well as the first iteration did its.

>>51232156
nigga what

>>51231665
>straight white human male
You reek of feminist/SJW bullshit.

>>51231919

Actually Saber is all in all a decent idea for a female knight that still seems female, to me.

>>51231722
/thread

>>51231665
A lesbian character.

>>51231665
>every half-elf/half-dwarf/-half-orc who picked one of those races because they wanted to be special snowflakes without being treated badly by other humans in the setting.

I have a rule for games.
No humans, freaks and weirdos only.

I can bend that rule a little to allow OOONE human, but any more than that is a bit much.

This policy has lead to many good times and numerous chucklesome problems.

>>51236193
>smart straight white human males invent RPGs
>30 years later, dumb straight white human males think they had anything to do with it

>>51232496
Man I have a range of characters.
Like, the current stable I want to run is: Witch-as-fuck witch, big hat, broom, multiple stages of age that she never reveals which is the true form and uses for trolling, poison apples, the works.
Discount doctor robot. This one writes itself, really. Especially if it has big dreams of medical research.
Van helsing ass motherfucker. I am not sure if I should go absurdly edgy with it, but the blood moon dark edge calls to me.
Gun cultist. The man prays to the holy firearm. He has obscure rituals involving high proof alcohol, money, and potato guns. His hideout involves dozens of guns worked together into a fully loaded altar that you have to be VERY CAREFUL with.
flamboyant cyber mercenary. Has a plumed helmet, a zweihander, and an elaborate shotgun. Focuses almost as much on looking cool as he does on succeeding, doesn't do shit if he isn't paid.
Tree man the speed freak. Moving at normal human jogging speed is an intense pace for him. Turning at a running speed involves drifting and damaged concrete. If he ever drives, he may break or gain transcendence.
Greasy Joe, the fatass gold chain wearing cigar smoking asshole. Will claim to be the good looking leader of the group. Actually serves an auxillary function that can be selected later.


man, I need to play some games.

>>51231722
this niggas is right on the money

>>51231665
>straight white human male
find me a better character

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>>51236518
coloured hobgoblin lesbian obviously

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>>51236659
>hobgoblin
only good for killing

>>51231665
Most players are white males and playing a female tend to be considered socially unacceptable.

>>51231919
What is a "female personality" ?
Have you thought about the fact being a warrior is going to be a huge influence on any warrior's personality yet being a warrior is considered so masculine that most female warriors are going to be seen as very masculine ?

>you are not allowed to play a straight white male character

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Anita plz

This is a bait thread, but it's not like I care.
So right now, I'm playing:
> A spiderbro explorer
Use his natural abilities and his artificer skills. Left his kind for being paranoid isolationists when he wanted to see the world. Charming and well meaning, he casually ignore the rejection his unusual appearance provoke (Like answering to a disgusted reaction by "Oh, I'm sorry, our journey has been gruelling and I didn't find the time to make myself presentable. ")

> A goblin bard for an evil party
Fascinated by kindling emotions in others, like discomfort, irritation, confusion, anger... Not even in an edgy way, it's sincere if unwelcome artistic research, like a movie scene cut with the express purpose of confusing you. More of an anti-edge actually.

I'm also preparing:
> A warforged paladin of the oath of the common man
Built to serve, chose to protect. Believe the lives he save are worth more than his own.
Still have to work on him.

>>51234610
This is 4chan, being straight is gay. Everything is gay.
Well, except for being gay, which is extra gay.

>>51236135
But then, the human is the freak! That's why you allow it, right?

>>51236135
I'm a human....Skeleton, fight me

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>>51231665
>straight white human male Monk who acts like he comes from a fighting game
Hardly cliched. The cliche would be asian. And probably speak engrish

>straight white human male Barbarian of any sort, particularly Scottish or Viking
Dwarves are scottish vikings, get it right

>straight white human male Sorcerer who is arrogant
I'm sorry, wizards have a monopoly on arrogance and sorcerers will have to make due with their table scraps. Again.

>straight white human male Bard who is promiscuous
Close! It looks decently cliched at first blush, but it turns out that promiscuity is a bardic class feature. You'll see it on female bards, nonwhite, and nonhuman bards. I think Female Elf bards even get a bonus.

>straight white human male Rogue who wears a hood and sits on rafters or tree branches or in corners and broods a lot
I don;t think anyone's actually done this since 2e. And not even late 2e. If they ever did. Nice Dead Unicorn Cliche.

>straight white human male Rogue who is a dandy with a rapier and a fancy hat seriously it's not any better stop it
Your cliche swashbuckling fop isn't gay? Seriously?

>straight white human male Cleric who tries to be the heart of the party
Hearts of the Party clerics are inevitably JRPG inspired staff chicks. Male clerics are more fantasy SPHESS MARINES out to purge the unclean. They all worship St. Cuthbert.

>straight white human male Warlock with Lovecraft/Faust influences
Your warlocks aren't tieflings? It's like you're not even trying to be cliched.

>straight white human male Paladin of any kind, with a special fuck you to obvious Crusader expies.
The paladins of Sune will fight you.

A+ Bait, anon, would be baited again.

>>51231722
/thread
Close the thread

>open some rp on a chatroom
>everybody must provide a short character description
>one guy uses bisexual and nothing else to describe his char
Immediatly shut down by me, pointing out how sexual orientation is a fuckawful way to describe characters.
Don't care if op is baiting, but if you take out white all you have is
>human male x who does y

>>51231665
You know, those would keep being "cliched" even without the straight male connotation. Hell, even wihout the need to be human, making your nerd wizard a gnome or dwarf doesn't add a layer of personality to it.
Play persons not labels, people.

>>51237525
>Hardly cliched. The cliche would be asian. And probably speak engrish
Ken Masters tho.

>>51239185
This is the problem with the tumblr people. They only know basic labels and do not label themselves based on their qualities but base their perceived qualities on labels. More often than not they choose vague ones that they do not feel obligated to justify like nerd or pansexual.

>>51231665
Characters I've played
>"Straight" white male fuckboi cleirc who's bark is worse than his bite
>Probably straight brown male alchemist, heavily in debt after wreaking his landlord's property and too honor bound to even think of running out on the debt
>Psion, game died before he could develop a personality, or even fluff for appearance come to think of it
Rate how cliche I am

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>>51231665
>Race and gender being the focal point of a character is somehow an improvement

Do explain how the addition of a vagina or darker skin makes any of the above more interesting.

>>51231665
nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger

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>>51231665
>Paladin of any kind, with a special fuck you to obvious Crusader expies.

What exactly is the issue here?

>>51231665

> You're trying to tell me that straight white men are cliched?
> What exactly does the tone of a character's skin have to do with the veracity of that character concept?
> Are you discriminating against white-skinned heterosexual characters?
> Discrimination is discrimination, you hypocritical faggot!
> Normies get out of my board!
> REEEEE!

>>51239185
>>51239480
>mfw so many of these people are obsessed with playing identity bingo and situating themselves on some axis of oppression or other
>somehow, everyone "forgets" the poor-rich axis even though it can and will override pretty much every other privilege
>no one says anything about poor characters even though they can be powerful representation when done right
in the end "i am/my character is [insert minority triple-or-higher combo]" is a marker of social status, because in the end it's not about progress, it's about being seen as progressive.

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Remember to ignore, report and sage /pol/ posters like OP.

OK, I know this is a bait thread. I know basically every argument and counterargument has already been fired, but I guess the bait works because here I am.

When the politics of race, identity, and gender eclipse the basics of storytelling and character building, you are in a bad place. Period. Whether it's because you're raging at "Straight human white male" or because you're raging at anything BUT "Straight human white male", something has gone seriously wrong.

File that phrase off all the characters in the OP -- you can do interesting things with this space, but for the most part a well-rounded character had better not RELY on any of that. Your "cliches" range from broad strokes too thin to be called a character, to single notes, to whole damn character classes. NONE of them are cliched characters because NONE of them are even characters.

With perhaps, and only perhaps the exception of the rogues, for which you were ever so slightly more specific, and I guess the monk if the "from a fighting game" angle is seriously played up (whatever that means) nothing you've listed is worth even complaint, either. It's insufficent, an element if that which could be part of a good or bad character. And no, changing your little starting copycat on each line does nothing to fix it. A lesbian chocolate elf female bard who is promiscuous has 0% more character than the Straight White Human Male.

>>51242844
If you really want to see a cliched RPG character, you need to take at least enough common tropes to have a flat character. Like the priestly-style cleric who is a friend to all living things, abhores the necessity of violence, and generally exists to try to keep the party on the straight and narrow path of goodness by mild complaining and constant healing. Or any of the media tribute characters that, presently or not, have been plagues upon at least theoretical D&D tables, the Sephiroth "badass edgelord with some sort of insane tragic backstory whose continued existence is predicated on martial superiority and complicated backstory the player doesn't actually care about other than as an excuse for being 'mysterious' and edgy", or the Drizzt-clone "actually good member of an evil race (usually drow) who is an outcast from his/her evil society while never been accepted among normal people and angsts about it constantly". They're stale even by cliche standards, to the point where picking them seems like beating a dead horse, but at least they're characters. And they're not predicated on gender, orientation, or any other petty "Inclusionary storytelling" element.

You, OP, are the problem. Make a character a character, give them dimensionality, conflict, and nuance, let us feel what their likes and dislikes are like, show us their depths and their shallows, and they could be an Elder Thing with a fursona for all I care, so long as they're well written/played/acted. Put concerns about inclusion, exclusion, diversity, or the lack of diversity first and foremost in judgment and you have failed before you have even begun. It doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum you're on. It doesn't matter whether you think your character is interesting because zie's a genderqueer goblin or whether you hate someone else's for being non-Aryan, you fundamentally do not understand what makes good fiction good.

FUCK YOU, OP.

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>>51231722
Fug'n savage.

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>>51231665
>any smug sarcastic woman ever.
seriously just because you've decided their cute in your imagination doesn't mean anyone else likes them and Jesus fuck stop dragging out every dialogue by having to arguing over nothing

With a bit of shenanigans on my part, I played a Blackguard who figured out how to swap his soul into a younger vessel at the cost of all of his experience, first campaign I did was the first time he had tried it so he went about setting up an "Evil Empire" in the background while they went on a quest to stop an old god from awakening, no one suspected the humble farm boy (pretend) fighter to fake his own death, and become an iron fisted dictator who had swept the country out from under everyone in the aftermath.

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>>51231665
>any tranny ever
seriously, no matter what the actual character concept is, it goes out the window and becomes "Missy's Little Misgendering Adventure", and the desire to "seduce" everything.

I don't let trannies in my group, and nobody gets to play a tranny.

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>>51231665
I'm only half white so it's usually pretty hard to relate to white characters, I do understand why most main characters are white though.
As for a boring character type, elven archers.

>>51245309
As much as I would love to say that good character building is all that counts...

In practice, you're right. We're not at a point where players can let that sort of shit be a footnote.

>>51245309
Mostly right but assuming all trannies are like that is a bit unfair.
You obviously do what I want, but I wouldn't feel good if I refused someone on principle for this kind of reasons.

>>51245720
*you want

>>51231665
Indeed OP. Those are so problematic. Like wow, literally wow.
When someone plays one of those character I literally can't even

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>>51231665
I usually play a kobold.
It's my fetish.

>>51236228
>30 years later, straight white human males both smart and dumb are ousted from the field by dumb entryists with an agenda

>>51237004
Yes. Yes it is why I allow it.

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I had this idea after seeing a tv show, dunno if it's good or not, but instead of one of those haha hilarious party bards.. Someone who has trained their whole life in an instrument. Very stoctic and doesn't say much, burn the music he or she makes is beautiful and convincing.

>>51231665
What about:

>straight white half-elf Lovecraftian Cleric who is a nerd
>straight white half-elf sorcerer who is promiscuous and Chinese

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>>51239781

>>51231722

To add, they're the best characters because they're the ones that make the most sense, and therefore get used the most.

This isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing. OP is retarded as usual.

>>51235628
You just reek.

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>>51231665
>weeaboo complaining about overused cliches

What did he mean by this?

>>51231665
>I'm cool because I pretend to hate things that most people have seen more than once

No, you're not.

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>>51246418
she's voiced by a fuckin whitey. you could change her skin color to white and it wouldn't change her story or character at all. this is shit reasoning and you should kill yourself for even posting this as a reply

>>51243478
Why is she almost naked, it looks like she wears nothing but zungetsu

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>>51246931
>zungetsu

>>51231665
I think you have cliches mixed up with classics, fag.

>>51233131

Heterosexuality is the physical, scientific, genetic norm. What does adding homosexuality actually do for your character? Unless you're self-inserting, identifying with, or just wanted to RP a gay character, it adds nothing. Thus if you insert it for the sake of "not being heterosexual" or basically, being abnormal, that's fucking edgy.

And no, there's nothing wrong with having a genetic abnormality like homosexuality. Foot fetishes are the same thing.

>>51246883
>you could change her skin color to white and it wouldn't change her story or character at all
That's not true - it would make her more attractive.

>>51231665
>uses cliched tsundere anime girl doing cliche "are you a baka" face as image

>>51247055
That's exagerated.

>>51247186

Literally none of that had to do with numbers and every statement involved black and white yes/no statements, so I don't see how you can claim it's exaggerated. Anything but heterosexuality is not normal or average in any quantifiable way, other than intangible social norms.

Are you gay? Probably not. Point proven already. Is the majority of this thread gay? No. Majority of this site? No. Majority of the internet? No. Majority of any country? No. Majority of humans? No.

>>51247246
Nah but saying RPing anything but the norm is edgy is indeed a bit exagerated.
Most characters are not the norm and are rather exeptionnal, as long as you don't enter special snowflake territory...

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>straight white human male Monk who acts like he comes from a fighting game

What did he mean by this?

>>51247055
>What does adding homosexuality actually do for your character
"You are invited to Ken boy's birthday party. He says 'No clothing, drugs, attitude, or condoms.' Roll willpower difficulty 9 to resist."

>>51247055
>Anon why are you putting down backstory? Why are you putting down eye color? Why does your sword have a name? Stop being edgy.

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>>51231665
>straight white human male Bard who is promiscuous
>straight
Do you even bard? Bisexual bard is the cliche.

Hell, even the "human" part is questionable. 90% of the bards I've come across tend to be half-elves

Dont forget the obvious overly progressive girl in a period piece.
Also, the overly "tumblr" girl, played by a person who really needs to take it down a notch with the crazy tumblr ideology

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>>51246418
>korra
>good character
choose one

>>51231665
How many of these are you going to make today?

>>51231665
>>straight
>>a cliché
Being sane is not being cliché.

>>51247753
So you are not sane?

>>51247704
Her as a character is not really the problem.

>>51247753
Well,if you're playing in antiq setting...

>>51247803
>Her as a character is not really the problem.
watching the show it was.
completely unlikable.
And ultimately left her uninteresting, literally the only things i heard abut the show after i stopped watching was TOPH! and people gassing on about lesbions.

>>51247820
Well that's like "homosexuality" in prison, most of them were probably not attracted to men.

You know that /tg/ hates identity politics, right.

It's not even that we're /pol/ (well, for the most part) - it's that beyond a few Lovecraft-tier spergs who really don't want carrots to touch peas, skin color isn't really a thing that we focus on. The racism is to just keep the normals away.

What we care about more than anything else is your species. Human, elf, dragonborn, tiefling, gnome, kobold, etc., because those things actually matter.

This thread is bait, and I feel bad for responding, but I'm doing it just in case you're actually that god damn stupid.

To actually contribute to the thread, kid who goes off on a magical adventure to be the chosen badass and has a great time.

It's cliche, but it's what I'm doing for my current Dragon's Dogma run, and a wizard one time in Warhammer Fantasy (minus the "having fun" part).

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>>51247753
Anon, you were OP at one point. You're a fag.

I'm sorry.

>>51246331
That's a very nice idea and I hope you get to play it sometime.

>>51247803
>>51247843
She started at an OK point, and was technically well written (at least to start) but she never really grew as a person the way she should have.

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>>51247900
Your post made me smile and be happy in a tough time thank you

>>51247933
I always thought the "I'm the avatar, you have to deal with it" was the point that over shadowed it.
jesus was her parents so shit

>>51247893
Joke's on You. I never start new threads.

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>>51231722
Yeah, he's right
/thread

>>51247796
Possibly.
I tried to off myself once.
Didn't stick.
At least I don't live in denial of the whole field of biology.

>>51248040
You mean the field of biology you know nothing about?

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>>51231722

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Gayfag here. Is it expected to make characters who's sexuality matches your own? I either make my sexuality ambiguous because it doesn't matter for that particular character or straight because I like making flirty womanizing Casanovas.

>>51237525
>They all worship St. Cuthbert.
Or Helm if you aren't a pleb. Hore to change it up occasionally.

>>51247853
They weren't but faggots will still cry that being dom makes you gay too.

>>51248584
*Hoar

>>51248097
I'm pretty sure that being gay excludes you from genetical run therefore making you a mistake by default
>inb4 muh bugs tactics
They still fuck females ,they merely pretending to be feminine

>>51248686
>I'm pretty sure that being gay excludes you from genetical run therefore making you a mistake by default
Actually, there's a rather cogent theory that it's more like sickle cell. Gay males are, in an evolutionary sense, supposed to be providing care and support for the children of their siblings, like the wildlife version of double income no kids. So while their direct line exits the gene pool, their close relatives will actually be more successful, meaning that potential carriers for the same genes pass their genetics on.

>>51248686
By that line of thinking you are a huge mistake.

>>51248770
>potential carriers for the same genes pass their genetics on
But not theirs

>>51248805
How?

>>51248854
You are never having kids.

>>51248840
he's modelling it as a recessive gene

gb2 to middle school biology and stop acting as if you've never heard of a punnet square

>>51248841
Around the same time /pol/ realizes we don't want their politics shit on here, SJW or not.
In short, never.

>>51248840
Hence the comparison to Sickle Cell
Be a carrier for sickle cell: Live better
Have expressed Sickle Cell: Die, probably before you breed.
Be Gay: You will not breed
Be Related to Gay: You are more likely to make it through lean times.

>>51246087


You wouldn't happen to know the artist on that would you?

>>51248931
Guoh.

>>51248955
SJWs are also /pol/.
ANY politics is /pol/.

>choosing a female character as a male

Is this a mental illness?

>>51231722
fpbp kkthsbyefamalam

>>51248955
Are you retarded ?

>>51248869
Why?

>>51248895
So? It's still excludes them from genetical run ,just like it excludes omega males for having inferior genes(roughly speaking).

We're not talking about the fact if sodomy is unnatural or not ,we're talking about their inferiority.

>>51249082
depends on the setting

>>51249375
You were spoonfed a specific model involving adaptation and heredity with whammies. You are either dense (purposefully or not) or stupid.

>>51249082
I hope not, but then I'm something of a writer so trying to get into the head of a character who isn't just a self-insert is second nature.

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>>51231722

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>>51231665
>Homosexual OPs

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>>51231665
>can't have a basic character, /tg/ calls it "cliched" and cries
>can't have a unique character, /tg/ calls it "snowflake" and cries

>>51250851
Good job finding yourself.

>>51231722
Fpbp

>>51247055
>What does adding homosexuality actually do for your character? Unless you're self-inserting, identifying with, or just wanted to RP a gay character, it adds nothing.
choosing to mostly opt out of marry-the-princess lines, and most/all marriage lines except for the most nakedly political ones, is a significant character choice. It might not be one for most campaigns, or it might be the same as the default choice for lel murderhobos, but it a general sense it absolutely does affect what the character is, in terms of what position the character takes re: society and legacy building.

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When the fuck did we care about who fucks who?

God damn, but these memes are getting crusty.

I personally think less people reproducing is a good thing, considering.

>>51250954
Clearly stop basing your characters on what /tg/ wants of you.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

Itt best characters

>>51231665
Your post so far has been:
>A Fucking white male!

Seriously I'll rather have the poltard autism on this board than people like you.

>>51252073
I'd be without both, honestly.

OP is describing Hollywood movies more than tabletop games, honestly. Tabletop's always had art featuring characters beyond "white male x".

And we all know how /tv/ is.

>>51239204
Ken is 3/4 Japanese, he just dyes his hair blonde.

I'm fashionably light on the correction.

>>51252073
>>51252186
yeah, I really wish both of them would leave forever.
They came during the election and just... never left.

>>51252922
Just report it when it comes up. Sometimes the mods actually do their job.

>>51252922
I wonder if it would have gotten worse or better had Trump lost.

>>51253180
Butthurt would be more intense.

But then people would probably firebomb shit. More than they are now, anyways.

>>51253180
It'd be much better. You'd see a lot of internet salt, but nowhere near the riots we saw.

>>51247803
She paled in comparison to ANY of the ATLA protagonists, and some of the villains.

She was just an unlikable cunt that the show kept saying was in the right despite her repeatedly making retarded choices.

Really, I'd love to retcon Korra in it's entirety. It totally fucked up the setting and lore.

>>51236135
I just play a Straight white buff male Half-elf with round ears.

Get rekt faggot!

>>51254442
okay, you can play the one human.

>>51247246
>majority of a country
What about Sweden?

>>51253378
Never mind they made her a fucking dyke.

>>51231665
> A straight black human male Rogue with high strength who rapes barmaids
> An herbivore yellow human male wizard who is very good at math and has a tiny dick
> A straight brown human male cleric who dresses in black, bring a strange flag everywhere and decapitate prisonners to his god

Go back to tumblr fag

>>51254720
Then get going.

>>51254644

Memes aside, swedes are also overwhelmingly straight, even though it's sometimes hard to believe.

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>>51231665 (OP)
gtfo to tumblr

>>51247803
I'M THE AVATAR AND YOU GONNA DEAL WITH IT
I'M THE AVATAR AND YOU GONNA DEAL WITH IT
I'M THE AVATAR AND YOU GONNA DEAL WITH IT
I'M THE AVATAR AND YOU GONNA DEAL WITH IT

>>51248243
Thank you for roleplaying a character instead of roleplaying your fetish

you a real nigga

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>>51231665
But if we switch some of them around...

>straight white human male fighter who is a dandy with a rapier and a fancy hat seriously it's not any better stop it
>straight white human male Wizard of any sort, particularly Scottish or Viking
>straight white human male Monk with Lovecraft/Faust influences
>straight white human male Barbarian who tries to be the heart of the party
>straight white human male Bard who acts like a nerd
>straight white human male Cleric who is promiscuous

I'd adventure with that.

>>51258806
hell yea dude

it's not about demographics, it's about how the behavior relates to demographics

>>51231665
any character who isn't played above and beyond normal 'good' alignment.

Yes, we get it, you are edgy. You are still fucking heroes, so go out and help people without asking for stuff in return you special edgy snowflakes.


Skin color, sex, class, race means nothing in that regard. At least we're at a point where sex and skin color does not influence the mechanics anymore.
Now we only need to understand why every elf is by default more agile than an orc...

>>51231665

> Cliched characters

> straight white human male [class] (x12)

Sexuality, Ethnicity, Species, Gender, and Class does not a character make...

>>51250851
>That artist
How many pages did it took to completely mindfuck her

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>>51231665