I just realized I created a medieval knight character, backstory

Lightsaber.

>>52583916
Roll with it.

>>52583916
Don Quixote IN SPAAAAACE!

>>52583916
By have him become a hardcore Crusader Kings LARPer (due to his familiarity) and end the campaign in retaking both Constantinople and the Holy Land.

>>52583965
Reminds me of The High Crusade. It's a HFY book written in 1960 by Poul Anderson about crusaders who hijack a spaceship and proceed to conquer a space empire, but never get back to Jerusalem because they lost the way back to Earth.

Up until the very end in the epilogue, when a ship which was actually launched by Israeli Space Navy finds them. Awkward...

>>52583955
I once thought about doing a "Don Quixote thrown into the wrong time period" type character. But then I realized that that is just regular Don Quixote.

>>52583916

Keep the character concept, but rewrite his backstory to fit into the setting better.

You can be a chivalrous honorable big guy in any setting.

>>52583916
Play 40kRPG duh.

>>52583916
play a space marine

FOR THE EMPRAH!

>>52583916
It's simple, OP, you just GOTTA GET BACK

>>52583916
Just put the words 'cyber' 'exo' 'neo' or 'space' in front of every noun and you should be fine

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Consider the following

>>52584846
>Cyber-knight
>Has all psionic powers
Rifts

>>52583916
Bullshit. How does this happen by accident?
Did your group discuss the setting at all before building characters, or did your GM just say "we're playing [universal system] at power level [number], make whatever you want"?

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>>52583916

>>52583916
>upper class
>expensive combat gear and vehicles
>trained his entire life
>serves someone with higher social status

Everything else is optional

>>52590995
Basically, the GM never specified the setting was futuristic. I was also confused when it had the same dwarf and elf races.

The only thing he said that would have really imply sci-fi was about how humans have discovered space travel.
But still no specifications on how, so I chalked it up as magic.

I just found out it was sci-fi when the other guys that probably knew more about it, posted characters that were clearly using advanced technology.

>>52583946
kek

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>>52584429
THIS MOTHERFUCKER'S A MANLY MOTHERFUCKER!

Just fucking say that he's a knight out of his own time period and he GOTTA GET BACK

>>52583916
battletech?

>>52591321
Clearly, you should just play it straight.

>>52592293
seconded
just play the knight

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>>52583916
You could still be the dutiful servant of whatever lord the setting will allow. Politician, corporate lord, old money family, fringe religious sect. Your outdated code of honor could be a beacon of light and decency that the setting is missing. It would help if you were legally some kind of authority meant to intervene like a sheriff or Judge Dread.

I did something similar with a cyber paladin. It was post-apocalypse setting, and my PC was mas built to be a counter to the kind of threats that setting should produce. Had things like infrared eye, could interface with tech, enhanced legs and one large cyborg arm to hack through robots. But left enough flesh intact to still channel mystic abilities like sensing spirits, or adding holy damage to attacks. Played it straight in a way that the PC used an odd vocabulary that would refer to technology in spiritual terms. Even had weird bias for seeing mutations as profane. Regarded all gear as belonging to the order and body belonging to god. More than a little WH40k.

>>52591321
Your GM is shit if he can't even provide basic information about the setting to build characters off of.