Ooo. Well, I’m only a GM nowadays, so I don’t tend to create characters to play. So my character concepts are NPCs. I’ve already talked about the depressed mud mephit, and I’m rather wary of talking about some of the other wild NPCs because the players don’t yet know everything and might read this…
So let’s look at some of the characters who have featured in my games.
We have the nameless elf monk brought up as a foundling by human monks who never got an name and was just called “number 54” or “the monk.” He was an elf, and looked like an elf, but had never learned how to speak elvish. So people would meet him and start to talk elvish at him and he would just stare blankly at them. He was on a journey of discovery from the monastery where he grew up to try to find the elves and learn about himself.
We have the three characters who lost their DM and are now in a world they know nothing about; Okoro, a human fighter, is relatively normal, then we have Alberic, a half-orc Paladin and Intari, a Tielfing Cleric of Selune. But Selune isn’t around in Mystara, so she’s trying to work out where she will get her powers now. She is getting her powers from somewhere and does feel an affinity with the moon…but what her character doesn’t know is that there’s another moon around this world on a different cycle. It just so happens they arrived at new moon for both moons, and they’ve only been in this world a few days. She has yet to learn what the other moon is like and what effect it has on her magic and powers when it is fuller…
And they’ve landed in a world where orcs are reviled and half-orcs tend to be mistaken for orcs, where they’ve never encountered Tieflings and red skin and horns is weird. They arrived with another character, Reith, who is a bit shady and was walking down the street at the same time as them when the portal sucked them across. And they have taken up with Lothar, a shadow-elf; most people think of the shadow-elves as stories and myths…
I’m looking forward to seeing how that story unfolds…
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