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[bjornwilde]

From rustedtoaster :
A tabletop role playing session has sprung up in Milliways! What kind of character is your pup rolling up? A staunch and stuffy beacon of righteousness in shining plate mail? A sneaky thief type who steals everything that isn't nailed down? A hack 'n slasher that's just there for the experience points and loot, story be damned? The sky's the limit!

"But my character would never willingly participate" you say? They've lost a bet/ are dragged kicking and screaming in to the game by a friend! We need to go deeper!

And to cast the net wider, pick a tabletop RPG you've played before! Do try and avoid the games that parallel your canon though, i.e. Ben Grimm playing a superhero RPG is redundant.

Also for bonus points, what if your pup roaster was the party, how successful would they be?

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[crazyfurries]

...alrighty, once upon a time I played Werewolf the Apocalypse (the game didn't last long. College kids with drama, a converted-three-times-to-catholicism-DM, and no spare time just had us at two game sessions) and I still actually really like that...

SO!

Tyler, ever present with the power of common sense and getting slotted as the leader, created his character Caleb Steadfast, to be the Waxing Philidox Stargazer Homid Keeper of the Land. A runt-child of a Silver Fang Ahourn lord, he was believed to be for some time, incapable of the First Change, and it was not until his encounter with a Stargazer saving his life in the Tibetan mountains brought out his nature.

And here's where the linking ends because the wikia is pretty easy to navigate and i'm running low on time.

Dot's character would be Loretta Marletti, Homid Glasswalker, waning moon philodox, also a Keeper of the Land. She is the elder mother and more than a little...aggressive in her deals.

And Mother, bless his mad little heart, he's the Ragabash Bonegnawer Eric Delfies, aka 'Yes Mutha' or 'Mutha FUH' depending on which side you get him on. You couldn't ask for a more loyal friend, but he's really not the most stable of individuals and spends way too much time (according to some packs) talking with the spirits of technology.

[kd7sov]

Well, if we go standard D&D/Pathfinder, Felix is either warrior or paladin. Sword and maybe a little healing power, and a basic Lawful Good outlook, is pretty much right up his alley. I don't know other games, so I couldn't say what he'd pick in, say, a modern-city-based game.

Kain... I'm not sure. Possibly a wizard, just to throw everyone off.

Fluttershy, depending on the feel she got for the game and the party composition, would be either druid or cleric. Some people make a good case for her as druid, but it's possible she'll want more healing-power available.

And Cranky... I could see him as a crotchety old "why did I let you talk me into this" retired adventurer, possibly a wizard. Bard!Pinkie would naturally be the one to get him involved, both in-character and out.

So. Given those roles... two wizards, possibly two healers, but no rogue. They wouldn't lack for damage-dealing, but until the wizards get access to rogue-skill spells like Knock and stealth buffs they'd be limited in their abilities to get around (rather than through) obstacles.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark's already a semi-geek, with his love of comics and zombie movies, so I'm sure that sometime in his past he sat down to a nice game of Dungeons & Dragons. He's not too sophisticated in his tastes, so he'd probably be a nice, easy Human Fighter, decked out in heavy armor with a sword and board. He probably frustrates some of his party members though, with a love for frontal assaults and kicking down doors before the thieves can check for traps or the spellcasters can soften up the enemy, but his high hit points and armor class mean that he can suck up lots of damage without worrying. And he spent some of his skill points on cross-class skills, so just when the Dungeonmaster thinks he's just another meat shield, he surprises him with some weird tactic that totally derails the encounter.

[nocarename]

"So, what's the architecture check to bring the ceiling down on the other guys?"
"What?"
"No seriously, the it has to be pretty low you used crumbling in the description, like, five times. We aim the sonic attack right it should bring the whole cave down."
"...I hate you. I hate you so much."

[saphyria]

In a D&D type thing, Sunshine would choose a Neutral Good druid. And once her character was strong enough, she'd take on the Master of Radiance prestige class.

To quote: "Masters of radiance channel the pure, undiluted power of the sun. Often originating in a good-aligned druidic sect that reveres the sun, they have a holy purpose to scour the earth clean of undead. Wielding the sun's radiance as a weapon, they are the bane of any evil creature that lurks in the darkness...

...masters of radiance prefer to work proactively against evil, seeking out the lairs of undead and other darkness-dwelling monsters and destroying them with ruthless efficiency."

(It does 4d6 damage to most enemies, and 1d6 per caster level up to 20d6 to the undead. Vampires/liches/zombies be screwed, y'all. ^_^)

[saphyria]

Yrael would be the snarky, sneaky rogue-type of the group. Stealth-combat, disarming traps, picking locks, and backstabbing, yo.

He would likely piss off his DM by insisting he try to steal just about everything, up to and including things owned/carried by fellow party-members.

[bjornwilde]

So I'm going to aim for my pups as a party:
For D&D:
Ben surprises everyone and makes a Warforgered Artificer, Kate goes for a Ranger, Hank makes a wizard, Julie goes for a paladin, Beast Boy goes rogue, Thalia makes a barbarian, Jessica is another rogue, and Val goes for a cleric.

For Shadowrun:
Ben goes for a Street Samurai, Kate goes Rigger as does Hank, Val aims for a Decker and Beast Boy goes Adapt. Palamedes goes Magician and Jessica goes Street Samurai.

For Changeling:
Ben surprises everyone by going with a Boggan tavern owner, Kate makes a sluagh psychic illusionist, Jess makes a satyr mercenary, Julie goes with a troll woman-at-arms, Beast Boy makes a Goblin anarchist and Thalia makes a Redcap protestor.

And now I am really missing tabletop RPG.

[misslucyjane]

It's been over a decade since I've played tabletop (everybody had to go get lives), so I'm not sure how much I remember. I'll try for my characters as a party.

The Green Man would be happiest as a character that didn't do much actual fighting, like a bard or a cleric.

Steve would be a paladin, though I like the look of a cavalier a lot, too.

Bilbo is already a burglar :D.

Stuart would be better with cunning than strength--perhaps a ranger or an assassin? Oo, or a Psion! He'd love to control minds.

Merlin, of course, would be a warlock.

[imagemist]

Is it cheating to say that Elrond would be most comfortable as a GM?

He is very reluctant to trust dice though.

[bjornwilde]

I thought the exact same thing for Mars.

[saphyria]

If Elrond were running a campaign, I would sign up in a heartbeat. :D

[boston_bruiser]

Voodoo and John would both be rangers, but John's character would exponentially nicer.


Also? Voodoo would godmod. ALL. THE. TIME. Not even in a way that makes sense, he'd be like, 'oh, so your character decapitated mine? well THE SUN EXPLODED. AND YOUR CHARACTER IS NOW ROASTED. TO DEATH.

HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES, MOTHERFUCKER.'

[gavin62truck]

"YEAH WELL, MY CHARACTER IS FIREPROOF, ASSHOLE. SO I'M STILL ALIVE AND YOU STILL HAVE NO HEAD AND YOUR DECAPITATED BODY IS ROASTED CAUSE YOU JUST BLEW UP THE SUN SO HA HA HA."

[ladyoflorien]

Leela - eyeeyecaptain - Would probably be the Fighting Man, since she doesn't have enough social skills to be a Thief.

Porthos - srspirate - Would be the Bard, and ... I'm sorry, I just made myself laugh too hard. OKAY PORTHOS, FINE, YOU CAN BE A THIEF/ROGUE. But you're the Bard of my heart.

Grace Augustine - donthidemycigs - ... ... ... Uh.

Renee Walker - whathastobedone - Thief/Rogue.

Ray Carling - flickedmethevs - Fighting Man. Stop gloating, Ray, your ego is getting too inflated to contain in my headspace.

Lily Bell - maidenofthewest - Definitely a Thief/Rogue. This woman's gilded tongue, I can't even.

Zoë Washburne - someonetocarryyou - Fighting Man.

Regina Mills - happilyneverafter - Magic User, of course!


As a party, I think my roster is fated to doom. Mostly because they wouldn't be able to stop fighting amongst themselves long enough to take on an enemy. Not having a Cleric doesn't help either.

[nocarename]

Hokay! Tabletops are a significant portion of my social life that doesn't happen online, so here we go.

In RIFTS, everyone can play themselves with enough digging into the sourcebooks. But they don't. Instead Robo is a sneaky spell caster (Ley line walker probably), Artemis has settled on Glitterboy pilot (Boom baby!), Tyler (Darrow) has settled for an Atlantean Stone Master (I hit him with a boudler!) and Ako is running a Cyber-Doc with psionics.

Over in D&D/d20 land, Robo is running a monk (He got lucky on his stats so it's viable instead of a fighter), Artemis twitches when you bring up Rangers so she's running the Wizard for the party, Tyler is playing the Rogue and Ako is, once again batting clean up as the Cleric.

In the Dark and Gimmening of Warhammer Fantasy RP everyone is a peasant. Roles were picked at random, but they all came out as charcoal burners. What, no it's not like I've forgotten the other options...

And for a hit of the surreal in Mage: The Awakening, Robo is a Son of Ether, Artemis goes for Cult of Ecstasy (more skydiving than drugs, but alter that state of consciousness, man), Tyler keeps throwing his hands up muttering about that's not how it works and refuses to play anything but a regular human and Ako is a Orphan running under a Shinto paradigm.

As for them as the party? There's a moderate amount of steam rolling and a great deal of genre awareness. Depending on the system that is.

[nocarename]

Oh yeah, I'm not even going to attempt a GURPS setup for them. The range is far, far too large.

[inlovewithwords]

Ahahaha. This is awesome

Coming Soon: I'll go with D&D for these two, they're more straightforward.
Henry might actually love tabletops. Can someone in-Bar introduce him once I bring him in? I think he'd enjoy a wizard on a first go-'round, and then just keep trying out new classes for fun. He'd make mistakes, but he'd learn. He's a cheerful, non-compulsive player.
Mako would probably go with fighter.

Current: Dresden RPG (Fate system). These are for a first game only; they'd experiment if they played more.
Lois definitely lost a bet. She'd go with vanilla human to avoid looking like a geek. Her character creation involves "It looked good at the time?" She'd play like she lives: reckless, risk-taking, lots of mistakes at first, absurdly lucky. She'd argue with the GM constantly. And if she successfully made Clark or Oliver play too, she'd steal all his loot.
Tavi'd play a wizard with social combat, investigation, etc. As a player, he's, well, Tavi: extremely strategic, compulsive optimizer, rules lawyer, stretches the limits. He's also the kind to take major risks, but not in the thoughtless way Lois does (usually). ...And as the irony finally occurs to me: at least Tavi's not stupid enough to play Harry. I think.

Now I want to write fics about this.

[bjornwilde]

I kind of want to try and set up a game just to see who it would end.

[sky_child]

Can't answer because I've never played a tabletop RPG before and don't know how it works.

[bjornwilde]

Okay, what if Link or your other pup were to make characters for an RPG type video game? Think a MMO like WoW but of any genre.

[cameoflage]

Aradia has canonical experience with roleplaying games! But the FLARP clouder is basically the GM, so that's where she'd be most at home. Also, I barely know anything about D&D classes.

[evil_koala_626]

For my own it gets tricky.

If you could get him to stay in his chair for long enough for the plot to go anywhere and if you could convince him that adhering to the GM's rules isn't completely boring and if you could make him understand that the minis weren't one of the snack options...

I think Stitch would be a tank chracter. Y'know, the big guy. The meat shield. If we're talking D&D I think this would translate to human barbarian. It makes me laugh.


Follows-Chalk would be a ranger. You'd have to explain to him why his chosen enemy couldn't be White Legs.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Stitch would probably be better off playing something like Feng Shui, the Hong Kong action movie RPG, where all the genres of HK movie are trying to impose their own version of reality on everything at once and you get more XP and better rolls the more dramatic and entertainingly movie-like your actions are. Put him up against the Architects of the Flesh, who're evil dystopian bureaucrats who rule the world in 2056 using summoned demons and arcanowave technology, and you're good to go.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut would go wut at the class system for the longest time. One of the distinct characteristics of Runescape as an MMO is that classes aren't a thing. Armor kind of separates things, as melee armor is weak to magic but strong against rangers, ranger armor is strong against magic and weak against melee damage, and magic armor... well, robes. It is supposed to be a rock paper scissors thing, but the only armor that follows that right now is melee. Ranger armor is a good compromise weight wise and protection wise in most cases, and wizard robes are just... wizard robes. There is bark and ganodermic armor for mages though so mages aren't totally squishy. But anyway, no real classes. It results in such nightmares like mages that can beat the shit out of you at close quarters. Then there are enchanted armor piercing crossbow bolts for rangers that are also experienced mages and on and on and on. Slayers tend to be the kinds of characters that take advantage of these sorts of things. The closest that Runescape gets to classes are pures - player characters that focus on one skill, usually for the purpose of player killing.

I am babbling, so I'll just say that Amascut would probably roll a paladin if forced and probably bring the game to a premature end because of constant bickering over good and evil alignments.

[batyatoon]

At one point Andrew was actually going to start a tabletop D&D game in Milliways. It never got off the ground.

This did, though.

[chanter1944]

If Sariel ever got into a tabletop game, I can see her as a mage-cleric or cleric-mage, probably the second option, though... hmm. Now I'm debating which might best suit her as her primary. Whichever she picked, she'd definitely go for some cross-class spells. And good aligned, absolutely.

[sdelmonte]

Knox is busy with Strat-o-Matic baseball, but I doubt anyone else here is familiar with it.

[withherhands]

LOL I missed this because I was at work...doing my last session of my "Apprentice Adventurers" program, which is basically D&D for kids. :D

Anyway, Jack would definitely be a Fighter. Not entirely sure what his alignment would be, though. :D