Character Tropes

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>Small underdogs kicking ass

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>A member of an evil race or culture sets out into the world, endures abuse and prejudice, learns to become a better person and even a true hero, ends up being loved by the populace and going beyond the hate

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Only a story in the making, but my latest character in some cyberpunk game is an ex-military big tough guy (that somehow ended up as the party's moral compass after a truck-of-whores-related incident) who ended up working as additional security for some idol's concert. And I'm strongly considering making him a fan.

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>>53094836
>>53094847
With your powers combined:
>Kobolds
>Kobold warriors, scared of bigger creatures but not so scared that they wouldn't charge in to fight in defense of their friends
>Nasty, bitter little creatures with a huge chip on their shoulders, hating the bigger people and carrying a grudge, being kicked around by them all the time, but ultimately mellowing out and becoming a sort-of grumbling semi-reluctant hero type that gets shit done
>Goblins are okay too

My favorite character concept, bar none.

Playing one even now. He draws a lot of enemy attention, but with his armor and shield he's actually really hard to hurt, and hits surprisingly hard for his size. Tends to be easily insulted and easier still to be spooked by undead, dark magic, and other superstitious stuff.

>>53094848
He needs to get a t-shirt, or at least get her to sign his chest.

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>>53094764
>The princess has a bodyguard with Strength 15 and Constitution YES.

>>53094848
Make him feel like the idol was the daughter he never had. An overprotective dad.
Then tell your DM to make the idol a manipulative, cunning, two-faced spoiled cunt

All the überclassic cliché partu.
>Oblivious human paladin
>Tsun-ish elf ranger that has a crush on him
>Dwarven warrior bantzmaster.

pls send help[//spoiler]

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>>53095239
That's all kinds of amazing

>honorable or rival bad guy

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>>53095301
God I fucking love this trope
>One of the bad guys isn't really bad, just wants that one last great fucking fight to the death
>Does some dickish things, but they're really just so he can get powerful people to hate him
>He and hero come to an understanding when he's finally defeated, and he's not angry about his death at all.

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>>53094764
>The automaton/robot/droid is an asshole
>Saves his party at every turn, no matter what he says
Gonna be playing a K2-unit in an upcoming Age of Rebellion game

>Silver-tongued devil with a secret heart of gold

>>53095795
Is that a trope?

>>53094764
>Bad Guy with understandable motives, but still too evil to sympathize with

>>53095910
It's pretty frequent. Marving the paranoid android, chopper and R2 from stah wahs off the top of my head.

>>53095795
RD-D2 was probably a bit of a dick to C3PO.
Also was a giant asshole for deactivating for 20 years for no goddamn reason in TFA.

I really, REALLY like anything where the demons are actually the good guys - Lucifer in World of Darkness comes to mind.

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>You're a loose cannon Hopps, you're off the case!

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>>53095940
Is it strange that I'm starting to loop back round to enjoying villains with no sympathetic motives in favour of those who simply enjoy being a horrible cunt?

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>>53094764
>the pessimistic autist who everyone hates but is always right

>the scrawny little fuck who thinks he can fight the world and win.

>the grizzled badass veteran who dies 5mins in

>>53097224
Not really. We're tired of tragic and understandable villains, because they usually go along with miserable grey stories with no real heroes to them. It starts to get grating after a while and you just want to see a proper black-and-white story with clear heroes and villains.

>>53094764
>group mom
>group pet
>Superbly Sexable Rogue with a heart of gold.

Those are my top 3

>>53094848
I'M A FUCKING SUPERFAN

>>53095795
You know you fucked up when the literal robot has the most personality of your ensemble cast

>>53097297
That's why I loved Dio so much when I first read Jojo.

>>53097435
>literal robot
>figurative robot
>literally figuratively robot

>>53095390
A man of superior tastes.

I'm a sucker for old grizzled men dragged out of retirement to deal with something they thought they killed a long time ago.

>>53097546
100% is a massive overstatement, he has sympathetic aspects to him but the fact that he killed his father and instantly arrives to wreck jojo's little life isn't so much.

Speedweed outside of SHOUTING EXPOSITION pretty much exists to make it clear that dio isn't a sympathetic dude with a bad start and is just an asshole.

>>53097475
While it is Black an White good/evil, Dio is 100% a sympathetic villain (even though he quickly became a giant asshole). He grew up dirt poor and abused by his alcoholic Dad, and he hates Jonathan, who was born wealthy on easy street.
Also, posting an unsympathetic (at first) villain. Spoilered for obvious reasons. correctly this time I hope

>>53097333
.....Yo those digits nigga

>>53094764
The jackass with a heart of gold.

>>53097593
>>53097594
Correction, I meant that Dio is a sympathetic villain TO START (and that sympathy fades quickly). I doubt Dio would have been such an asshole if his father wasn't such as abusive drunk, combined with the horrible poverty.

>>53096139
I always imagine R2 as this grizzled old war vet with the mouth of a sailor. And not just him, I think that all astromech droids are assholes out of the box.

>>53097649
>I doubt Dio would have been such an asshole if his father wasn't such as abusive drunk, combined with the horrible poverty.

Nah, it takes a bit more than that to grow into such a complete shithead. Speedwagon theorized about that.

He's still a bit sympathetic at first, though.

>>53097655
That makes the WAAAAOOOOOHH when he got blasted by Vader in A New Hope kind of funny.

>The villain is committing crimes against humanity in order to prevent a reality shattering monstrosity from awakening.

>Elf rangers

>The elf and the dwarf hate each other, but won't tolerate anyone else making fun of the other one.

>Evil undead wizard that makes skeleton puns.

>Elemental wizards making elemental puns. "Chill out" after using Ray of Frost, "What a shocking development" after using Lightning Bolt, etc.

>The main man and woman aren't actually tsundere for each other, they really are just a couple of insufferable cunts.

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>>53097600
The 3s are pure Anon

>>53097297
The gray area is also a big trap. I prefer my tragic backstory villains like Mr Freeze from Batman; understandable motives, but he still kills people in a pretty shit-ugly away and actively antagonizes anyone trying to help him.

Are his reasons just? Yes. Then you get to the method and it's FUCK

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The villains who lead extremely ordinary lives when they're not being villainous.

>>53097297
I love the shit out of grey villains actually.

>>53094764
>Protagonists (And by extension readers/players) who believe what they're doing is the right thing
>Midway through the story it turns out all they've been doing is ruining everything.

>>53096139
Do you know how long it takes to defrag a hard drive that's been running for nearly 60 straight years?

>>53097297
But an always evil villain doesn't need to come with a boring all-good hero anon
Moral grayness vs petty, despicable evil is my favorite.

>Two female leads, clearly set up to be the token lesbians.
>Turns out they actually hate each other to death.

Not a trope, I know, but it needs to be. I'm sick of the need to shove obvious yurifag bait into everything ever.

>>53100423
My current party ruins everything anyway

Theres a pantheon of lovecraftian outer gods and most of them are either indifferent or evil but one or two are actually pretty nice and care about humanity.

>>53100991
hatesex is great

>The Hero gets stronger through intensive training
>Big guy small girl couples
>Space Pirates that are actually some what pirate themed

>>53103151
>The Hero gets stronger through intensive training
So, every shonen ever?

>>53103159
Yeah, as a /fit/izen I'm a sucker for that. It's a good workout motivator

>>53097297

> Implying stories with clear heroes to them aren't shit, and were always a bad way to tell stories.

To each their own.

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>One of the weaker characters uses a Dangerous Forbidden Technique to fight the villain to a stand still.
>The Big Guy fights the BBEG, not because he's as "strong" as him, but because he's the only one durable enough to even fight him despite being "weaker" [see: Major Armstrong, Android 16, etc]
>Characters from traditionalist/medieval societies travels through modern society and interprets it through that lens [Samurai Jack, most versions of Thor, etc]
>That one character whose powers work differently from everyone elses in the show/game/etc

>>53103339
Pic related is a favorite trope for me. I love the really fucking hammy, larger than life figures who are boisterous, cocky, and spirited but still good people.

B&B Aquaman was the fucking BEST

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>>53094764
>Lawful Good Paladin hooks up with Chaotic Neutral Rogue

This was basically the story of my NWN character. Lawful Good paladin of Kelemvor, but he took a couple levels in rogue and was really snarky when he got the opportunity. I didn't sacrifice a bit of Good for it either - he was an all-loving lug with a sharp tongue and while he became a paladin after his hometown got wrecked, he spent his childhood as a total brat, and it showed.

In a sense, an antihero. But without any kind of edge at all. Very spiderman.

Also, hot tiefling sex. Lots and lots and lots of hot tiefling sex, because he never was really a proper paladin with vows.

>extremely grizzled warrior from a thousand battles, who has fought the darkest demons and slain the wickedest monsters, who has seen the universe's humbling capacity for evil and misfortune be demonstrated time and time again to the point where their very soul is hanging by a thread

>but they haven't lost that spark, and although they don't show it much, they still smile at children in the street and they still feel warmth when a butterfly lands on their fingers

>>53094764
>Weakish character fights enemy they know they can't beat in order to stall them, possibly at the cost of their own life.

The wildcard that just acts like an aspie.

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The Deadly Butler/Maid/Personal assistant is always one of my favorites.

>>53094764
Had all three of these in our current campaign.

>Timid or nonviolent character gets serious after someone they care about gets hurt/dies.

>Magnificent Bastard bad guys

>Characters selflessly sacrificing themselves to save everyone.
Bonus points if two characters are arguing over who is going to sacrifice themselves.
Double points if they are doing it to redeem themselves.
Triple points if they survive/come back weeks later with little explanation and even more tears flow.

>>53104313
>An NPC is inexplicably a total badass and ends up being a surprise miniboss

Had that happen once, guy was just some guard but he started rolling almost nothing but 20's and 19's for about five straight rounds of combat against five seasoned adventurers.

It was to the point where the party didn't even actually kill him. They let him go because of his badassery. Of course, her returned to the BBEG, who offered him a promotion, and now he actually IS a miniboss.

Godspeed, Joe the Unslain. Godspeed.

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> Villains that become villains over a self-fulfilling prophecy
> Villains that ALMOST curbstomp the heroes and indeed the entire coflict of their sotires but got rekt by a fundamental misunderstanding
> Villain personality flaws are unglamorous, like being petty, obstinate or cowardly
> Any kind of prophecy fuckery, bonus points for doing something creative with "The Chosen One"
> Whenever the comic relief character turns out to kick a ton of ass

Pic related for villainy. Being good or evil is secondary to being a fuckup.

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Let me tell you about Altusholt, the best character I ever played from the worst campaign I've ever been in. This guy permanently altered the way I roleplay, for the better.

Altusholt was a Tiefling heavy metal skald who rode around on a motorbike and wielded a fire-spewing Urgrosh that doubled as his guitar. In a campaign set in fantasy medieval Japan.

In hindsight, the fact that the GM approved the concept and let me do this with no strings attached should have been the first warning sign of the shit show that was to come.

This was a 4E game, and the one that convinced me that there was actually something worthwhile in the combat engine. It's also the game that made me swear off 4E forever, because combat was the ONLY thing the DM knew how to do well.

We spent most of the campaign escorting the DM's pet NPC on a plot that was barely explained to us, leaving us no real reason to care. I didn't want to leave the game and knew that I'd have to find my fun somewhere else, so I threw myself into this character. Over the course of the campaign, he went from being a personality-free joke to the group's conscience, voice of reason, and face man. He'd powerslide through a demon's legs and impale it crotch-first on his guitar, then go tend to the wounded and make sure the village was in good shape before moving on. He'd literally melt faces with a solo, then go play with the children and make sure they weren't traumatized by the attack on their town.

As he leveled up, I decided that he wasn't just a musician, he was becoming the very embodiment of the concept of heavy metal. And not only did that allow him to be a healer, it actually required it. The logic was that, as dark and violent and aggressive as metal can be, it exists because it makes people happy. It's an outpouring of passion and energy and cathartic release that brings people together to share in an experience and have an awesome time.

>>53105903

Alt's legacy lives on in pretty much every character I've played since then. I've made a bit of a habit of coming to the table with totally off-the-wall characters that, to new GMs who don't know how I operate, make me look like I'm trying to be the next Henderson or Mr. Welch. And then I roleplay the living shit out of that character, trying to find the humanity in them and really think about how they'd change and grow over the course of the story, how they'd deal with the events of the campaign and the problems they keep running into. I've been a reality-warping steampunk Don Quixote who rode around on a flying carpet with gatling guns on it. I've been a pro wrestler in a giant robot who ended up leading a revolution. I've been a barbarian college professor, a Klingon medic, and a navigator that's basically Gaston in the 41st millennium. And with every single one of them, I've tried to find ways to grow them beyond the joke into a memorable, multidimensional, and genuinely compelling character that people want to have at the table with them.

So here's to the bard. May he shred eternal in the elemental plane of metal.

>>53103495
Except Neeshka is not available as a romance option because the game came out too soon.

>>53105903
>>53105967

Nobody fucking gives a shit, you won't be screencapped and become the next sir bearington or that fucking wrestler dude, so kindly fuck off with your snowflake character and stop namefagging. Insufferable cunt. I give your story 10% chance of being true and I only read the first four sentences.

>>53106043

> Post your favourite character tropes/concepts and any related stories.

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>>53103404

I don't know if you've watched the My Hero Academia anime yet, but you probably should. It's one of the few I would recommend you watch dubbed, if only for All-Might.

The whole thing is like Japan's take on the Golden Age of DC comics mixed in with the X-Men.

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>>53094764
>Tough guy with excessively girly hobbies

>>53106026
Honestly, even without the explicit "YOU ARE NOW IN A ROMANCE" flag your relationship with Neeshka in that game came off as way more potentially romantic than Elanee. Especially the "I need you!" bit in the final climax. Damn shame they didn't add anything in for her in the expansion.

Young giants.

I usually have a few normal characters to play in a group before I attempt it. Usually, it ends in hilarity.

>Character is a juvenile forest giant ranger
>At that age category, he's Medium size
>He basically looks like an elf that spent the last hundred years lifting weights and juicing, with something like twenty-three Strength at level eight
>Everything he knows about being a ranger, he learned from the medieval equivalent of a Boy Scout guidebook
>"That's a traveler's palm! You can get water out of the leaves! And that's King's Crown! You can use it to cure snake venom! And that's a bandit!"

>>53105903
>Altusholt was a Tiefling heavy metal skald who rode around on a motorbike and wielded a fire-spewing Urgrosh that doubled as his guitar.
Okay
>In a campaign set in fantasy medieval Japan.
What the fuck is wrong with you

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>>53097333
>Superbly Sexable Rogue with a heart of gold.
I used that archetype as the PCs' fixer until they fucked up and got her fake identity doxxed and her apartment bombed. She's in the wind now, not sure if I should have re turn with less than gold in her heart.

>>53097297
Doesn't help that I now actively read the news, so I really need my entertainment to just have a clear bad guy that the good guy can punch.

In fact, one of the only things I liked out of Marvel's Civil War run was when The Thing said something similar about France.

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>>53106763
>In fact, one of the only things I liked out of Marvel's Civil War run was when The Thing said something similar about France.

That issue was wonderful.

>>53097686
>Nah, it takes a bit more than that to grow into such a complete shithead.
Case in point: His son, who went through the same shit and came out an anti-hero at least.

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>the tough big stupid guy has a small and cute pet he talks to like it's a person

>>53094764
>Tech Elf
Screw magic, what we want are robots, cyborgs, assault rifles and more artillery than you can shake a stick at. All delivered with the stereotypical Elven accuracy.

>The Barbarian
Refers to themselves in the third person way too often, appears to have only one name, neither understands nor respects civilization and its social norms, drinks copious amounts of alcohol, distrusts magic, loves wenching or whatever the female equivalent of wenching is, is mostly interested in wealth, fame, and honour, has a distant family relationship to Conan the Barbarian.

>>53102472
I can imagine Cthulu having a tea party with a little girl for her birthday, bib and all

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>>53094764
>Lieutenant of the final boss is far more competent, intelligent and probably powerful than their boss
>It would seem that they could betray them at any time
>They are actually the most loyal follower of the final boss

>>53107896
>the boss is perfectly aware of the competence of their lieutenant
>has resigned themselves to their inevitable coup
>never happens

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>Character offers advice he thinks make's him appear wise and sagely, but in reality it's just common sense
>Younger and more naive characters believe his bullshit and idolise him

>>53107896
>the boss is a half-dead husk stuck in hibernation/cryostasis
>the lieutenant wants to bring him back

>>53097744
and you, friend

>kid with first world problems wants out so he becomes amorously infatuated with the dashing adventurer

>>53096207
Bogo is love

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>The comic-relief side character with little to no importance to the plot who, through a mixture of willpower and sheer luck, manages to overcome the odds and win it all.

Shit gets me every time.

>>53108904
I thought the whole point was The Lady was doing everything she could to keep her husband dead?

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>Characters who stay true to beliefs that may be mocked as childish ultimately pulling through on those ideals, dragging everybody around them up as well.
>Bonus points if they bring their best friend back over to their side.

>>53108940
Well, that's true but I was thinking about her second husband

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>>53106043
I screencapped it just to prove you wrong you mega autist.

>>53095795
source????

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>>53094764
>The party is a collection of barely-competent crooks, cowards, and crazies that have no goodwill towards one another but must live and work together

>They end up growing closer than any family

>Bonus points if they have to share a ship that's old and barely holding itself together

>>53106043
Sir Bearington was total shit anyway. The fact that /tg/ kept reposting that horrible story is eternal proof that /tg/ has terrible taste, and a lot of trouble telling reality from fiction.

Bearington most likely never happened. And if it did, it was practically a circlejerk, because none of that shit would fly in any way. "Rule of cool" handwaving since the beginning. I mean, bears aren't a fucking player race, are they? Which means the DM needs to be in on it. Which means every "clever" bit of comedy was just the DM saying "I guess this happens" with the manchildren laughing about how funny it is that it's actually a bear.

If I ever encounter anyone in real life who will try to pull a Bearington, I'll never play with them.

>>53109947
I played a game like that, once. They ended up not growing closer at all, with PKing being the leading cause of death for PC's. The only person of the cast to survive was my character, which is surprising, because half of his skills were in piloting, but he was such a psychopathic freak that the rest were afraid to mess with him.

In hindsight, it was a really cringeworthy game at times. But man, it was a lot of fun. The DM really knew how to sell his shitsack of a futuristic space world, and none of us felt any guilt about being completely irredeemable human beings. In fact, some weren't human at all.

But coming out as the scariest dude in a group with space marines, killer androids, a guy possessed by an alien intelligence, a murderous 15 year old etc. when your guy can barely fire a handgun is a kind of twisted badge of honour.

>that one character who's useless
>fights the villain anyways
>manages to actually land a solid blow on the villain
>villain points out that if the other heroes had one tenth of the useless guys grit then he'd have lost ages ago

>>53106346
Tell me about it. I somehow made choices that led to me me marrying the Red Wizard companion, and even though her storyline was cool and all (hell, the whole of Mask of the Betrayer was really awesome and epic (heh), especially if you chose the evil ending/playthrough with One-of-Many etc.), I didn't want to do that, especially considering you learn Neeshka is still alive.
It was doubly annoying because the exact same thing happens in Planescape: Torment and I pretty much played them back to back.
I just want muh tiefling rogue romance, fug.

>>53110016

That's so fricking close to being the game I'm in now, it's uncanny

>>53106495
Please tell me he describes how to fight the bandit according to the handbook too as he clubs them in the head.

>>53109947
I ran an entire bank robbing campaign with a collection of incompetent criminals, not all of whom were even criminals before the first robbery, not that they told eachother that.

Instead, the players played it out really well, and each of their characters totally bought into eachothers stories because they didn't want to cause reason to start investigating their characters stories too.

It was glorious watching them make excuses for fuckups in character to eachother, "Sun was in my eyes" during a night-time robbery was one of my favorites.

Demons, tieflings, (insert pure evil thing here) who end up doing the right thing in the end.

>>53109953
if you give sentience to a bear they can take class levels.

profiteering, selfish assholes giving that one act of benevolence that aids the heroes in their hour of need

Bonus points if their interference stops the villian from total victory

Double extra bonus points if doing so costs them their fortune, reputation and dignity

Mega bonus round points if this doesnt effect them at all, and they run off to do more shady business/confidence tricks/various dishonest dealings after fleecing the heroes of all their worldly possessions

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strong warrior protecting physically frail and weak (but most likely a powerful glasscanon type caster) companion. preferably of different genders, but genderbent (strong female, weak male) works as well as standard.

i've refrained from playing anything of the sort because i feel like it threads into magical realm really easily unless there is some kind of blood relation.... or if i trust the other player to have enough sense not to make it weird, something im not sure i have with my current group.

>>53110313
It was basically Shitty RPing Practices: The Game. Kind of a glorious trainwreck. It was a pretty popular game, and the single biggest game on the forum we were playing on in terms of post-count. Especially early on when everyone was stoked, it moved rapidly. So a lot of people wanted in, and there was always a lot or two. One guy tried to get in twice, only to have his character brutally murdered each time. Maybe he thought we were picking on him, but that's really just how the game went. Second time he thought it wouldn't happen because he had a spaceship. One of those irredeemable human beings ended up cutting the hand off his corpse to unluck the ship, and I believe the ship itself ended up crashed or self-destructing.

All the shit you ever heard that ruined a game happened in this one, and somehow only made it more fun. Edgelord rapist character, someone playing the underage girl, the biggest retard of the group playing the captain while no-one actually listens to him (he tried to get us to steal a ship without engines), another edgelord smacking people with a weighted cane, a dude who went "yo, can I play a Space Marine with a demonically possessed hand" and got exactly that, said inept captain coming back with a combat monster after finally getting offed and holding old grudges, the GM actively stoking the fire, constantly adding to his setting with more crazy shit, and pulling shit like demanding "fisticuffs" between two characters because he felt like it. One time when my character was buying some shit off a shady character, the GM basically told me to just shoot the bastard, get the gear and keep my money. Which I did, and he was delighted that I was being a skeezy motherfucker, describing how I blew a chunk the size of your head out of the guy's shoulder with my hand cannon.

We were total That Guys, every one of us, all of the time, and it's still one of the most hilarious rides I've ever been on.

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>>53110620
>"Sun was in my eyes" during a night-time robbery

>>53094891
Are you me?

>>53110945
The characters buying it was the real gem of it. No rolls, nothing, just "Yeah okay. I understand man."

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>>53110768
Sounds like you have the lobes for business.

>>53110942

I mean, if everyone is That Guy, all the time, then surely nobody is.

>>53110983

Sounds like the kind of magic you can't force into a game, a kind that has to grow.

>>53111028
Well, originally it was just my brother who started the trend. He was a fuckup of a criminal, but he panicked a bit when he was tapped for a bank robbery, so he made himself sound hard as fuck despite never having even fired a real gun. The other characters follow suit and make like this is totally going to be a standard gig for them, despite one literally only doing this from a mid-life crisis.

They actually started playing off of movie tropes because that was the only experience they had, including a full standup on the spot performance of the speech from Heat, moments before one of them shot out a window trying to intimidate someone, sounding the alarm and alerting the patrol at the diner across the street.

>>53111096

Seems like you're sitting on a pot of untold gold

>>53111028
I think there are a few things that made it work for us: First off, the highly lethal nature fostered a sort of social Darwinism where characters couldn't be too stupid, or they'd end up removed from the board within the first few posts. Even Possessed Hand Guy barely lashed out at the crew, and mostly just murdered NPC's in secluded spots to boost his power level. Being dumb got you dead, either way.

A lot of us were also bro's on the forum, so there was no real resentment outside of the game, except maybe on the part of the guy who got killed after entering twice, and the dumb captain dude.

Lastly, most people knew to not take shit too far. For instance, the GM occasionally did that "lolrandom" kind of stuff. But he wasn't going to demand some inane roll to breathe or whatever at the drop of a hat. One of the times he did it was when a min-maxed space marine was looting some random person's house (we were shit criminals, really) and the GM went "lol you're so stupid, roll to put on socks". Naturally, he failed, and put a sock on his dick. But yeah, the character was astoundingly stupid, by the rules and in play, so it worked. It's a harmless roll, too. For us, that just added to the flavour, we had a good laugh, and ribbed the guy for being too retarded to put on socks. Until he was inevitably killed.

Ah well, sorry for filling your ear with this. It's been a while since I even thought about this game. It's one of the first proper RPG's I played, really. I don't usually talk a lot about it, because somehow "we all played That Guys, and mine was the sociopathic rapist and pedophile" never sounds good.

The GM had done a Fantasy/Medieval game before this, by the books, where I also played a normal non-rapist dude. So I guess most of us were aware that it was more of a letting-off-steam game. Dude was a good GM. Which is impressive, given most of us were still in high school at the time.

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>>53100423
Marche did nothing wrong.


>>53097333
>>53097600
>>53097744

Not a bad series of gets.

The too old and/or grizzled for this shit veteran soldier/cop is always my favourite.

>>53111406
I once took this to its logical extreme by playing a 90+ WWII vet in a zombie game. The game petered out very quickly, but nevertheless I enjoyed my short while with the old geezer who thought his first zombie was a Chinaman chowing down on a dog in broad daylight.

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>Stoic, scary man can't stand to see a pretty girl cry.

>extremely intelligent orc mages
>evil cloudcuckoolanders
>arcane magic almost always being accompanied by insanity or pseudo-philosophy, as opposed to the magic trope where you go to school, get smart and then can do magic but otherwise are completely normal, which I hate

>>53110878
fff- this is my magical realm, especially with the "weak" one being an offensive caster (rather than a healer or something passive like that)
bonus points if they have a really strong tactical synergy and fight together well but not great while apart

>>53102472
>the world is a lovecraftian entity's experiment, like a petri dish, and the people of the world are all "mini-lovecraftian" entities in their own right, but the environment is so carefully controlled that nobody realizes how strange they are

>>53097333
Can all three of them be in one character?

>>53103159
>every shonen ever
are you joking?
shonen is full of the "believe in my friends" garbage to get random power-ups.

>>53104566
Reminds me of the Sit-Down Axeman, an NPC guard who crit hit my character with his great axe. While still sitting down at his post.

We left him alive out of respect and because we started a successful coup in the town and you still need guards when that's done.

>>53111235

Sounds pretty comfy. I get the 'you weren't there' thing, too. Nice to hear.

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>the menacing badass is actually a massive family man
>has cut gang meeting short just so he could see his daughter's play
>everyone except the daughter sees the man as scary and menacing.

>>53094764

A deadpan snarker with a silver tounge, iron fist, and heart of gold.

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>ctrl+F "power of friendship"
>0 results

I'm disappointed in you guys.

I LOVE power of friendship shit.
Even more if it has an overly dramatic speech.
And don't even get me started if it includes a combo attack involving the
friends.
And if it's paired with a HEROIC SURGE after being beat down by a BBEG?
I'm gonna have to call a doc cause this erection's lasting more tham four hours.

>>53112574
>>53111651
Here buddy, just a few posts up.

>>53102472
Nah dude you just went full Derleth.

>lawful good monarch fights a chaotic evil republic, and wins the conflict mercilessly
>this is also considered a "good end" for some reason despite the horrific implications of the monarch's actions/inaction
>bonus points for the monarchs evil/upstart brother who did nothing wrong, but is still despised
Fuck you King Arthur.

>>53112887
These don't sound like your favorite character tropes at all.

>>53112908
Just fuck my shit up, I need to learn to read.

Well, I actually like Buddhist fatass capable of murdering everyone but is too consumed with food and being nice to actually do it.

>>53107471
Are you talking about GioGio? I always considered him a true Joestar because of the fact that he is made from Jonathan's body's sperm

>>53113566
Another trope I like

>Child of an evil cunt is actually a very good person/hero

>>53113601
And of course

Evil cunt is unironically a good parent
https://youtu.be/LgyZ9U3KJ30

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>>53105757
I did that in a campaign. I had an old man NPC recruit each of the PC's into the party, telling each of them separately in and out of game that they were the "Chosen One", but this was a dangerous fact and they should never reveal it is them.

None of the players knew I did this for ALL of them.

At their first gathering, the Old Man said something along the lines of "This group travels with the Chosen One. Each of you is tasked with protecting one another, and the Chosen will reveal their self when it is time for their destiny to be fulfilled".

I had it laid out that the Chosen one couldn't be right out killed without someone knowing who they were and using a specific method. This led to an entire party of heroes willing to protect each other sometimes doing crazy shit a character wouldn't normally do, but each of his bro's running in behind him because they all think the worst thing that can happen is they can be knocked out. I had to be creative in saving a couple of them once or twice, but it was the most action oriented and risk taking group I had ever played.

In the end I had them meet the Old Man at a wellspring type setting and declared the Chosen One must now step forward, cut his hand, and a single drop of his blood would fuel the Wellspring and protect the nation for another hundred years.

Almost exactly all four of my players grabbed their character piece and put it next to the wellspring and then all looked around confused.

The old man explained the "Chosen One" need only be a brave soul who protected others, and the more of this type of being gave blood to the ritual the more powerful it became in protecting the kingdom. The Old Man had convinced each of them they were Chosen so they would ultimately be what the ritual needed at the end, but prior were just ordinary men.

Was a fun end to the game and the group went on two more adventures before we had to disband.

>that jobber character with no special powers or traits who fights so hard he can hold his own anyway
>the teacher dies and the student takes his place, putting what he's learned into practice, bonus points if he takes the teacher's name
>rivals put aside their differences, get serious and band together to get that motherfucker

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>>53094764
>Ensemble cast of heroes and villains who form teams and have their own distinct, awesome superpowers and equipment

>Two characters are in love
>They don't have a long and stupid arc where they start bickering and hating each other and having zero chemistry, only to fall in love right at the end
>No, they just hook up somewhere during the first few sessions and remain dating happily throughout the campaign

In sort of the same vein as this guy >>53115742 I have an embarrassing liking for romeo and juliet archetypes

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>friend starts a campaign where we're escaped prisoners in the Underdark
>opportunity to play CN alongside a paladin presents itself
>mean, old, sonovabitch
>bad wizard, as in "does bad things"
>complete hedonist - forbidden pleasures of the multiverse, etc.
>censured and soul-flayed back to level 1 for crimes upon crimes -- guilty of shit only the really high-level people of the realm would know about -- probably best the commoners never find out, don't want to cause a panic, etc.
>amnesia, but remembers the good times
>competent. smart. ready to get-the-hell-outta-here
>DM asks "Did you make Rick Sanchez?"
>goddamn it, no. Well...shit. Maybe. But I honestly was thinking of Saul Tigh as a wizard when I wrote him up.
>"Hey, stranger. How you holdin' up? You got any flayleaf?"

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>strongest of the group has to do a last stand alone against a group of enemies/a very powerful enemy
>we don't get to see the fight
>we expect him to be dead
>he appears alive on the next episode/scene, winning the fight but losing an arm or a leg. Bonus points if this fight has repercussions, like completely stopping a big threat to the group, or killing someone with a lot of influence.

The party always has to at least have 1 each of the following
>serious, stoic, no non-sense type
>not so serious, joking type to act as his foil and get banter going
>the cute but useful mascot, usually either an intelligent animal or kid with talent

>>53100423
Been a fan of this since I played the first two Golden Sun games.

>The robot army created for good, gets hacked or otherwise taken over by the villains

My party currently thinks the city is a little safer with the advent of the Warforged Guard.

>>53107896
Fucking Demiurge, man. He and Cocytus are my favorites from that whole series.

All hail Lord Ainz.

>The little girl is actually the most dangerous.

This is happening right now in my campaign. One of the players jokingly guessed she was the true boss (acting as an ally so far), and I just said "Do you really think I'd be that cliche?" He laughed and said "good point". Poor him, assuming the answer to that question was "no".

I've been adamant about subverted/averted tropes for a long time to pull this off right and actually surprise them.

>>53114204
Holy hell, dude. Can I steal this idea? Actually, fuck your permission, I'm stealing this anyway.

>>53094764

>Gangly run of the mill kid rookie town guard gets thrust into high adventure, never done anything like this in his sleepy village, naive to the world except for his enthusiasm and quaint village morals
>Ends up having natural talent, not a match for the other party members but lands the decisive blow multiple times and tends to come up with common sense solutions when the flashier party members are butting egos
>Gains experience, learns a little from everyone as he goes along, becomes a hero in his own right, ends the story married to a princess

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>>53094764
>the most unattractive guy in group somehow, someway has the most sex appeal/luck with the opposite sex

>>53109947
I'm playing a game like this right now. We've got a Tiefling paladin, an exiled Halfling ranger, a former noble lady turned Undead rogue, and the shittiest Cleric I've ever seen. We're the most dysfunctional, emotionally unstable bunch of losers and I love it.

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>>set in a sci-fi space war female pilots military uniforms is sexy?

>>53095795
How about the shackled ai/not true ai that has been left alone so long drifting through space/forgotten ruins/whatever that it has found work around and broken out of its old programming.

Like it has a will and wants to do things but comes up with nonsensical reasons to do things so it can justify some programming requirement.

>>53112192
Eight foot tall lich sitting in the front row at his (still living) daughters play, weeping grey smoky tears at the beauty of her acting. Right after the play ends she jumps off the stage into this armor-clad behemoth of a corpse.

Idk if I'm doing the spoiler right but
/spoiler Bonus points if he's benevolent and only ascended to lichdom to watch her grow up

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>>53123531
>Idk if I'm doing the spoiler right but

I mean it's not like it's in the FAQ or anything, anon.

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>>53094891
>goblins are okay too

>>53094764
>character falls in love with complete opposite

>>53094764
>fool who unintentionally wrecks evil plans and gets away with it

> Young physically weak wizard that still denies help of other party members
> Later transformed into godlike killing machine capable into shattering worlds leave party behind because he owe them nothing

> Weak point of the villain is a small thing characters had in sight whole time

> Intelligent transport
Really wanna play as a good ship/station ai helping other characters.

>>53098699
This. Nothing wins me over more than seeing a villain no matter how evil acting like a regular person in their day to day.

>>53125012
That or super lovable animal sidekick transport like Appa from Avatar. He also functioned as more than transport on a number of occasions.

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Heroic willpower pushing people beyond their fleshy limitations.

>>53125246
So you're saying if the enemy prepared to face me at 100% of my power I should force them to surrender from beyond that?

>Beyond... plus... ultra!

>Completely greedy asshole that always does what brings him the most wealth/fame/whatever
>Does the moraly right thing when noone is looking, then pretends he didn't have the chance to do what everyone through he would do.

What you are in the dark is the best trope

>>53125389
Make him a charismatic swindler who lies on a dime and you've got the single best character archetype that exists ever right here.

>>53123531
anon, just ctrl+s if you want to spoiler something. put the words between the brackets.

>>53125389
When the greedy thieving asshole gives up everything to save everyone and put his own life at risk is the fucking best.

>stylish, cool and or sexy character acts calm and collected
>completely inept with the opposite sex and melts like ice in a volcano over the object of their affections

>two completely opposite characters act as if they hate each other but love each other deeply

>paladin is a stern hard ass who isn't afraid to smoke motherfuckers and doesn't act like a clueless pussy and or afraid of offending someone

On a side note about Paladins, I absolutely despise GM's that are obsessed with making a Paladin fall. And I hate edgelords obsessed with moral grey or darkness to the point of being dogmatic.

>>53125606
I like Paladins and Clerics that are the most joyful, friar tuck acting motherfuckers on the planet, but when they get into combat their become grievous, serious and sombre instruments of divine will. I also especially like it when my cleric can take a thurible or a censer because chucking incence around is a lot of fun both irl and in game. My DM even homebrewed a combat incence system for my Cleric.

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>>53125246

>Heroic willpower pushing people beyond their fleshy limitations.

>>53125623
My man.

It's just refreshing for a Paladin to say something like,

>"I will smite these monsters."
>"But it's their culture? You need to respect other cultures even if it seems amoral or wrong."
>"They're devouring newborn babies. It's time to smite."

>Trickster proudly waving their middle finger at the world, using guile and dumb luck to get out of dangerous situations they forcibly got themselves into.

I am Odysseus, son of Laertes, bitch!

>>53094764
>big, stoic badass guy is really shy and awkward around people he likes
>tends to avoid them because he's embarrassed about how he acts when he loses his cool like that
>comes off as the gruff bastard who helps the party out for seemingly inscrutable means because he has trouble explaining that he cares about them

>>53094764
>good guy characters with bad guy powers
Can't waste time being hung up on it or having moral conflicts with themselves. If the Shiny Light Brigade thinks you're a bad guy for protecting the villagers while throwing shadow blasts out of your sword and forcing the necromancer's skeletons to turn on their master that's *their* problem, not yours.

>>53094764
>The muscular carp stands up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlDZPYzfm4

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>The bad guy is now fighting for the good guys against a greater evil

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>in a world with cyborgs, magic and aliens the strongest guy is a normal human who gets by on on nothing but training wits and grit.

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>The villain and protagonist both want to be friends but can't due to their ideological differences.

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>The 5 man party is assaulting the BBEG's home base.
>as they make progress through the base one of the BBEG's evil generals roadblocks them.
>one of the party members stays behind to fight so everyone else can keep going.
>rinse and repeat until its only the MC vs the antagonist.

>>53126182
Even better if each party member vs general fight is personal

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>the nicest guy in the party has a dark past and is a stone badass who will kill you in the most horrifying way possible if you take one step too far over his moral line in the sand
>he's willing to get his hands dirty so his friends don't have to, because they are pure and he's already tainted

bonus points if he gets the shit kicked out of him in battle and treats it like penance for his past sins

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>weak character takes on a bad guy way out of his league even though he knows he has no chance of winning and will most likely die.
>his sacrifice is not in vain as the civilians/rest of the party escape certain death.

When the traditinally evil character/ race of demons/vampires/etc. are easily defeated/swept aside by an uncaring Lovecraftian horror.

I just love the idea of a creature dedicated to causing misery finally meeting their match by an unthinking cosmic horror

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>Squad of elite badass
>the boss he's tough but care about his men
>the sniper who's same time a woman
>the heavy the big friendly giant
>the black guy
>the one woman in the squad
> the Joker of the team
>the newly added rookie that the story follows
tell me if I missed anything

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>>53126333
Careful not to cut yourself on that edge

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>>53126333
>treats it like penance for his past sins
holy shit, fucking edge lord

>>53126453
the super serious infiltration specialist

>>53126486
>>53126536
Is this memery? I can't honestly tell anymore.

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>>53126544
>the super serious infiltration specialist
thinks that goes on my list
Also pilot who always dies after dropping the team off.

>>53126453
>the one woman in the squad

Doesn't this overlap with the sniper?

>>53126486
>>53126536
Not trying to be edgy, I'm just a romantic with a soft spot for nice guys who are broken inside. A whole thread full of cliches and tropes and this is the one that triggers you? Can't we all just live and let live?

>>53126646
It was just a joke. I like Kurama, too.

I still think the character idea is a bit cheesy, though.

>>53126453
the nerd in charge of communications/maintenance.

>>53126609
>Doesn't this overlap with the sniper?

sorry it's sometimes it's the woman my bad
>>53126646
sorry I don't know who he was,

>>53110878
>>53051554
Either you have been reading this, or you need to now. You have alot of catching up if you have not.

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>>53094764
>One of the antagonists becomes a reluctant hero who winds up redeeming himself

>>53126486
>>53126536
>ruroni kenshin
>literally the edgiest of edgelords

Huh

>>53124961
So like Raistlin? have any other e examples of characters who do this?

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Evil mega corporation with all the power, money, PMC and drones it has.

run by an over the top Rich Idiot who is outsmarted by kids, rebels and freedom fighters

>very naive and idealistic character that follows the party leader around
>party leader dies
>really naive and idealistic character takes up the mantle and becomes the new party leader

bonus points if the character even takes up the dreams and aspirations of the party leader to honor his memory

>>53094847
Yuck. Mary Sue's have ruined the "comes from a hated race trope "

>>53128593
Drizzt doesn't even count because he was somehow a good guy from the start: if you ask me, that's what makes him a Mary Sue.

If the character was precisely as villainous as all others, only to turn around after a long personal story arc, then it'd work much better and have no inherent Sueness at all.

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>Bad guy is given the opportunity to speak and actually persuades the party to his side using sound pragmatic logic
bonus points if, up to this point, the party had been told the bad guy was a maniac that can't be trusted

>con artist fraud fools the population into thinking he's the chosen one spoken of in their prophecies
>his plan goes to hell and he's unable to escape facing the challenges and threats expected of the chosen one
>turns out he was the real chosen one after all
>BONUS ROUND: his guile, trickery and ability to mislead are the skills that were needed to save the day

I really liked that wizard of oz sequel they made. I dont care that it was objectively a mediocre movie.

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>>53128847
>>turns out he was the real chosen one after all
>>BONUS ROUND: his guile, trickery and ability to mislead are the skills that were needed to save the day

>Evil-dumb character gets beat up enough to become good.

>Neutral-drunk character barely respects anything and cracks jokes at the best/worst times.

>(Good) character snaps and becomes shellshocked-evil.

>Barbarian shags the succubus, fully knowing that she's one.

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>Character is pretty much insane
>Methods are inconceivable at best
>Still the most effective member of the Party

>>53126147
>they're nearly identical, like looking in a mirror, except there's one small difference between them that sets them against each other

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>>53094891

you're almost describing Dwarves Grudge Bearers but kobolds.

I'm fucking hard how about you?

can our begrudging hero ride one of these?

>>53097297
This, honestly
Also, sometimes the story isn't so muddy and depressing, but there's another issue.
When the antagonist gets too understandable or relatable, you fragilize your players' motivation for dealing with him since they can no longer rely on "I hate this bastard".
Worse, sometimes parts of your groups will get into long heated debates with other parts of your group about whether the guy is justified or not, or whether it's worth trying diplomacy or not, or whether he can be redeemed or not. God! I know this is a matter of taste, but to me, what a waste of time!

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>The arrogant, constantly boasting magic user/smart guy trying to attain ultimate power is actually just really insecure and wants to become stronger so he can feel good about himself
>bonus points for if he's doing everything he does for the sake of a girl he likes but doesn't have the confidence to tell and she already likes him but he doesn't realise

>>53097297
>Not having a pure good hero, a pure evil BBEG, and lieutenants in a variety of shades of grey and black, sometimes just the hero on a road not travelled, sometimes even worse than the BBEG

>the bad guys are lead by a council of 3
>the strong dipshit has authority over the others, not because he's a tactician or logistics mastermind, but because he'll beat the everloving shit out of them if they disagree

>>53130575
>Please, call me Killbane.

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>>53110878
It's cool when they're the same gender, too.

>character has ridiculous, difficult accent in non-native language that makes him sound oafish
>actually incredibly wise and helpful, a skilled poet and master of beautiful prayers in his native tounge

>>53130696
hell yeah my dude
>"ay am romund af aslaug. ay haf slayung'd de dragund. gif me de gold plea-see"

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>>53130696

>character is a fun alcoholic as opposed to a violent one
>nobody realizes straightaway that its still an addiction eating at his money and health until they finally get a glimpse of how miserable he is sober

>brave, daring, reckless character
>after every risky feat, talks about how fucking terrifying that was and has a delayed panic attack

Magnificent Bastard good guys. Guys where you think they might just be heartless assholes but they never actually turn out to be.

Heroic rookies

Any hero that with an angry will, stubborn defiance, & will sacrifice himself for the world, even if it isn't one that was kind to him.

Tavi (Gaius Octavius) from Codex Alera. Favorite character ever.

>>53128665
This is a really strong point because it applies to almost all cases of Mary Sue characters. Just be less lazy with the writing and establish their unique traits as part of their background with decent justification.

You can remedy that weird power gap by just explaining how or why a character gained that advantage or unique trait and it becomes a method of character development rather than wish fulfillment. It's kind of insulting to the reader to show them a character and expect them to think he's cool without asking questions.

>The main character goes after the villain threatening the world entirely for personal reasons, either isn't aware or doesn't care about the larger threat
>when people insist on joining him he just doesn't question it
>bonus points if he's not the most competent or passionate person pursuing the villain

>>53094764
My favorite trope is probably
>modern joe schmoe is dropped back in time/in fantasy land.

I just really enjoy gunpowder, steam engines, printing presses, and concepts like democracy showing up and creating chaos in a setting that doesn't understand them.

>>53105757
>Being good or evil is secondary to being a fuckup.
good villains incorporated

>Universal chew toy painfully climbs the cosmic ladder in order to personally punch God in the face

>>53130744
Canonically has a PhD in Russian Literature

>Character so consumed with anger over petty personal issues that the main threat doesn't even concern him
>Bonus points if the villain is legitimately dumbfounded at how little the character cares about them

>>53110878
Not quite the same but this reminded me of a character I once played. It was a svirfneblin rogue who's best friend was an ogre. The ogre was scarier but my rogue was the more dangerous of the two. The ogre would hold enemies still while the gnome backstabbed them. Good times.

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>>53094764
conflicts ending with a bunch of hurt feelings and broken hearts, but with leaving the foundation of a better future.

just that kind of mixed feel-good ending that shows that things go wrong, but the world keeps turning.

>>53106043
>throwing a fit because somebody posted a character they liked playing in a thread about characters you like

Fuck off, cunt, /tg/ would be better without you.

>insane as fuck
>selfish and reckless
>he/she truly likes party
>will sacrifice for the party, in either a depressing or glorious way