Do you play as the same character over and over again?

No, but I tend to favor withdrawn wizard types. The wizard more than the withdrawn.

The withdrawn part is because I'm pretty quiet+passive normally so it jusrt sort of happens.
And magic is just cool, so I like to play wizards and other people who can do cool magic shit.

She's always that innocence lost character who was the cheerful studious type until Bad Thing™ ruins her life and forces her into the company of the party.

The lesbian thing is low key. It's never outright ERP but the character ALMOST ALWAYS falls in love with the first girl that tries to break her out of her shell. Since it's kinda awkward her just sitting around reading books and occasionally offering a suggestion. It's like the people who sigh really loudly to let everyone in the room know something is wrong.

There was a period in high school where my group just kept bouncing around from game to game never really settling on anything, so I played an increasingly jaded and depressed character who got kicked from world to world through random acts of fate.

i have a buddy in my playgroup who plays the same character. every. single. game. and that character is himself. he outright told us this.
>yo dude, why dont you ever have a backstory for your characters? and when you do, why do you toss that aside the moment the opportunity to arises?
>cause i dont like backstories.
>why is that?
>because i like putting in the effort for a character i already know how im gonna play
>wait wat?
>yea, i like to play myself and make decisions as if I WAS making the decisions MYSELF

every fucking game its like this. and whats worse is he's trying to make a meme of one of his characters, "john" and he has named the past 8-10 characters "john" and links their backstories to each other and is trying to create dumb bullshit head canon for them.no matter the system we use, whether its fate, pathfinder, WoD, or whatever other system we may use, he makes it all canon
>hey guys, john is a shapeshifting dwarf/elf/human, fighter/barbarian/rogue/monk/wizard/werewolf/vampire/TANK/cock sucker :^)

if he weren't a bro in every other aspect, i would have kicked him aloooooong time ago.

I've done it a couple of times, with I think two characters that have transcended setting. It mostly comes down to "Man, I put a lot of work into that character and I was really excited to play them, but that game went nowhere and died quickly. I feel like they'd be fun to play in this party and they're not out of tone for the game, so I'll shamelessly use them as a base and translate their gig to this system."

We had a player about a decade ago that always played himself. It wasn't so noticeable until he saw the first Fast and Furious movie. Suddenly all his characters had a huge interest in street racing and would talk about it nonstop. Even in settings where it wasn't appropriate he'd start on about magical self-propelled cart racing and shit. It got tiresome fast.

Sort of. I play characters with a similar personality and mannerisms. It's become a sort of running joke that they're all fragments of the first D&D character I played, back in high school. He sacrificed himself to stop a universe-shattering spell from happening, and now fragments of himself are all through the universe, reincarnation as different people.

I've been kicking myself to avoid doing this with a master alchemist character that I played for several years. I pretty much avoid playing any kind of alchemist now in any system because I did it the best I could then and I don't want to just repeat the motions again.
It's worse because quite a few people either want or expect me to place a carbon copy in new campaigns, and I'm not sure if they're disappointed when I don't

I do almost want to do this for the same reasons, but the few characters that it applies to were very setting dependent so it's more pining after lost characters that I enjoyed RPing

love this

I hate your name.

It's called 'being That Guy' unless the character is particularly beloved by your group, in which case, full steam ahead.

I don't see the appeal, personally, unless it's a continuation of a previous campaign.

I know this chick who pretty much likes using the same character over and over again, and her excuse is even worse

She's an interdimensional god-like being who loses her abilities and memories in each new world(therefore each setting) she's in

This character is bad. Like, worse than JRPG hero, shounen protagonist bad.

It has one actual flaw, and that's being an idiot; naivete is covered by being an idiot, being prone to inevitable misadventures is not only not a flaw, but is also covered by leaping before looking. Being a deep sleeper and being navigationally challenged both can be fixed with a quick trip to the store, so they're not actually flaws because they're very easily fixed. Being unwilling to take another life is literally just fluff, and being unable to swim, unless being able to swim is a major keypoint of the setting, is also just fluff, and can be fixed with little or no effort.

And, of course, the general snotty attitude towards artists, as though that's how you're supposed to act as a commissioner. I can imagine the person capable of writing this, sitting in a chair, looking at an underling, proclaiming that they've failed him for the last time, and telling them that they're worthless to him, before having them put to death.

I think that's plenty of flaws. Being an idiot is a pretty huge flaw in itself, especially compounded with more of how he's an idiot. I mean, what other flaws would you add?

It's not my character, but maybe a flaw that his self-taught fighting style has obvious, glaring holes in it? "Unorthodox," is basically special snowflake speak for, "I'm going to do stupid shit that makes no sense, but that I think is cool, and expect you to let me win because I think I'm clever," so turning that on its head seems like a plan. The only time I think I've seen self-taught and unorthodox used to describe a fighting style that wasn't full of holes is with Raiden from Metal Gear, and in his case, his cyborg body was literally made to accommodate it.

Maybe actually enforce the, "unable to take a life," thing? Make him vegan and unable to kill any living animal and have him, fuck, I hate that I'm actually saying this, but capture monsters and animals and find out what their problem is so he can convince them to stop attacking; I'm skirting around it, but I'm implying that this is done with power of friendship bollocks.

Most of my problem is the self-importance I can feel in the character backstory, and telling what his character is good at instead of showing it. And that's a personal thing; I like to write, and, "show, don't tell," is something I had to hammer into my brain over quite a while.

I couldn't finish it. Holy sweet flying fuck I wish I could meet this man and slap him.

Yes.
No. It's a character that matches the setting, but since I've never been able to finish a game I end up making the same character wanting to complete his story.

I've only ever used two characters so far: one for any game of D&D regardless of edition, and one for modern or futuristic settings like Shadowrun.

Sometimes, as an experiment, I try to convert one of my older characters to a new setting to see what will change about them for them to logically fit in the world. It's proven interesting in a few cases.

It should be pointed out that the creator of this character threw a massive shitfit when in Shovel Knight, where he appears as a bonus boss fight, the players are able to deplete his health bar to zero and actually beat him.

Also most of the writefagging the creator does on his own or commissions is just straight up girls falling over the character, then him being flustered about it, but then the story puts the character and girl together for romance "things". Also several attempts to ERP with the character on roleplaying IRC channels.

Not that user, but I found him amusing back before I knew SK had kickstarter fan bosses (never kept up with the game pre-release) and thought he was just some tongue-in-cheek comment on JRPG ridiculousness., thus I got a half chuckle out of him.

Then I found out the truth and I ain't laffin no more.

>It should be pointed out that the creator of this character threw a massive shitfit when in Shovel Knight, where he appears as a bonus boss fight, the players are able to deplete his health bar to zero and actually beat him.

Link to meltdown?

Unfortunately its not written meltdown. It was during the "director of the day" meetings between Yacht Club, the devs, and the creator. He was described to be very hard to work with in general. To me thats pretty evident from how lackluster the actual boss fight is.

Also the creator is black. It doesnt really matter in this case but usually people find that fact unexpected.

Daily reminder that he was created by a 30 year old black man and has his own wiki with sprite movesets for his special moves.

I am laughing but I really dont know if I should be.

I dunno, black nerds are such a delight, but ones with the real autism are kind of sad.

seizui.wikidot.com/reize-seatlan
Wonder how much it cost him to get the sprites done.

I sometimes roll characters with a very different type than the norm for the setting (one time me and a buddy built Billy and Jimmy, as brawling martial artist true-friend changelings, and it was all fancy punches and high fives and '80s slang).

But reusing a character? Basically no chance of that.

No, but i do sometimes spawn descendants if the campaign in the same world but later on. with skills tought to them by their granddad/father/whatever. so mechanicly roughly similar characters, but often times different personalities.

Martha Emblem pls go

>Martha
Marth, rather

Evidently he has friends here, because porn of Reiz gets deleted quickly

I like to think of it as: my characters are actors and I assign them new roles and so forth to play.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka's_Star_System

FYI, my most commonly reappearing character (a samurai) actually "makes very little" compared to more niche ones like the my Russian Automaton.

But, yeah, I admit, I'm actually just shit.

You aren't supposed to post porn on Veeky Forums, it being a blue board.

Speaking of people getting their one character into different things, /m/ just had one of their anons donate to get their boardtan into a videogame as a mecha pilot.

If they're not appropriate to the setting, then no.

But if they are, then yes, I will always roll up the same CG human-raised drow thief in any fantasy setting that has both dark elves and thieves. If the game begins at above 1st level, so much the better. I like to think of it as being "the continuing adventures of Iliira the thief", sort of in the vein of Conan stories. Only with less bloodshed and somewhat more hijinks.

And there isn't a damn thing anyone here can say that'll make me feel bad about it.

ur waifu a shit

a shit

Nope. Doesn't make me feel bad.

You'll have to try harder than that.

>You will never have money to throw out the window for your shitty OC.

I try to play different characters every game, but am usually pushed into the caster/tech class cause no one else in my group wants to do those.

I have a friend who has a small pool of about four characters he rotates through.

It's not terribly bad, but it does show his stubborn dislike of change.

>chaotic good
>drow
>raised by humans

while i admire that you enjoy this character enough to have had art made of her, i do think you're missing out on the fun parts of playing a drow (outside than your clear attraction to their appearance).

No. And I have a player who does this, and it drives me up the fucking wall. He's bad enough that if his character dies, it will inevitably be replaced by the exact same guy, just with a different name.

I tend to kind of do it in waves. There might be some class I use for two or three games in a row, but even then it's not the same character or anything. I also sometimes end up slipping into the same role in the party a lot since other players in my group rarely take lead or anything, but I consider that more on them than me

>Human-raised
A Drow having no ties to the Underdark is basically just an elf that's prone to racism, isn't it?

Well, they ARE black.

Yeah, it's pretty much just a (sometimes magic resistant) elf that feeds a victim complex if you take drow society out of the picture.
I mean that's not really any worse than a half-orc or tiefling in some respects, but the every game thing would probably piss me off if it was at my table if we didn't just have an extremely long campaign.

Does nameless, disposable cannon fodder count as a character?

I go half and half and make a template system with basic character statblocks which are to be filled out into a proper character when the time comes through organic interactions.

grunt love homie, grunt love

Eh, the issue there is I've never been very good at playing Evil characters (except one time, but I feel that become Space Atilla the Khan is not going to be easy in most campaigns). Plus ultimately she has her origins WAAAAAAY back in the 90s with my Baldur's Gate CHARNAME so "human-raised" its part of it, though obviously she's been fully divorced from being the child of Bhaal (or anything other than two normal drow, for that matter)

The fun part of playing a drow, to me, is less about the character him/herself and more about the reactions of everyone else around them and his/her reactions to those reactions, etc. Basically I could get the same effect with an orc or something, but as you pointed out drow are more aesthetically pleasing to look at, plus what I said earlier about Baldur's Gate.

Iliira's primary motivation is to become the greatest thief in Faerûn not because she necessarily wants the fame or glory per se, but rather because she wants to become so famous as a thief that people mention that fact before they mention that she's a drow.

Now in my defense, waifu or not, if Iliira dies and can't be resurrected for whatever reason I'll roll up something else without complaint. I'm not That Guy who'll storm out and quit the game or something. It's only a game, she's only a character, and you rolls your dice, you takes your chances.

Funnily enough my replacement character for her on standby is a NE priestess of Bhaal, on the off chance that I WILL be able to pull off being evil a second time.

Git Gud @ drow girls

Guardbros!

I don't particularly like defending someone's shitty waifu, and I know Sandwich is to some extent a Veeky Forums sacred cow, but that's some pretty grotesque art you have there

Sandwich is exactly the same thing as Iliira, just dwarf-raised rather than human-raised and Lawful Good rather than Chaotic Good.

Slightly better Sandwich art.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man

Much better Sandwich art.

You shoulda posted a better example OP

No, I have a million unplayed concepts, every time a character dies it's a glorious opportunity to make a new one.

I just make character concepts and never do anything with them

Yeah me too tbf, I GM most of the time anyway and the only other GM in our group is pretty fuckin poor at it so when I do get the chance to play it's always kinda a let down and doesn't tend to last long because everyone wants to go back to my game. Always manage to have some fun bringing a concept briefly to life tho.

Man, for how much apparent art there is for this Sandwich, I'm surprised this is the first time I've ever heard of her

Well that's what you get for not being an oldfag

It's less that I repeat characters, and more that I am only capable of playing two archetypes:

>The big, dumb, heart of gold tank (think Alex Armstrong)
>The absentminded professor

Real damn difficult to do anything else, although my one deviation as the /angry/ absentminded professor was a lot of fun.

Sandwich is shit to begun with

Not the same character, but the usual archetypes always come up. Fighters or evokers, grim and gritty, brash and edgy moralists, loners, etc

but the 'Baz is appropriate in all settings user.

maybe its more of a Quantum Leap thing and one day he's gonna wake up here:
youtube.com/watch?v=jYmn3Gwn3oI

>ooh, look at me, i'm so clever and subversive, playing a character with essentially no personality!

fuck off.

Funny, one of our group members did the same thing. We all just kinda went with it, and his character backstory basically turned into Link from LoZ, except instead of fighting Ganon and saving the princess, he's out to exterminate the Fae and spread imperialism.

He commissioned his music theme to the guy that did Secret of Mana. Think about it.

What compels a man to do so much for such a generic anime protagonist looking character

I don't do that. I like to change things up and dabble in new areas. I do tend to play a lot of fighter and clerics though.

One of my friends, however, almost always plays a human barbarian with some type of shortman syndrome who is convinced he is a dwarf and lives in the wilderness by himself for a fair portion of his life. The current game he and my group are playing in is a pirate/high sea setting thats been flooded by the elemental plane of water, and instead of bringing a pirate character (Something he actually roleplays well), he brought the barbarian. That's like though.

if only our guy was that clever, its gotten to the point of where he doesnt even try to make unique characters anymore. He ONLY makes "John Doe" every fucking game, no backstory or anything, he uses the backstories from other games entirely who he used the name "John Doe" from and slaps it onto there, and thinks its ok.

straight up autism, our play group has talked to him about it and we tell him
>"yo dude, we know you can make a backstory, we have seen you do it, whats up?"
>"this is just how i wanna play i dont see the big deal"

borderline autism

His character is an original character he had for a decade.

I had assumed that Reize is some kind of husband for this guy.

Brought a character from a modern crime campaign into a future crime campaign, just add some grizzle and wrinkles and boom

The OC was apparently made in 2001. It's probably his life's work by this point.

generally my character are very religious or superstitious with a propensity toward animism. also I tend to play party faces or spell casters. I've been trying to change these, though

I have the same stable of characters that I play over and over again until I am satisfied with how I played or a character legitimately makes it to the end.

Just like Chris-chan

>seizui.wikidot.com/reize-seatlan
>go to the Bursts page
>see his fighting style
>lots of kicks
>fighting style changes based on grip on boomerangs
>only one move throws boomerangs

The list of characters I want to try is long enough to last me for years, so no.
I have a couple characters I would want to play again, if the setting is appropiate for it, but for the most part I use different characters to "fit" in the setting.

I've got a really basic rogue with a heart of gold that I fall back on in most fantasy settings, so long as I don't think of something cool that I can actually pull off with whatever knowledge of the system I have.

I reuse names like a motherfucker though. Naming is hard.

>Do you ever that guy?

Get your filthy hands off of me OP.

I play an inordinate amount of Bullywug Paladins/Clerics.

I tend to use like 3 names for characters, but that's about it.

>concern.jpg

I honestly feel this is about me, but then again I haven't been in more than three or four different campaigns with my current group that would necessitate that fear.

I try to make my PCs different from each other in some drastic ways, even if I tend to fall into the same class archtype template every time I have a problem where every class I make soon becomes a gish type

>Iliira
>using someone elses drawfagged characacter picture for your own character
>not even bothering to change it at all except the file name
ISHYGDDT
>enough to have had art made of her
See above

They have exactly as much personality as they are allotted screen-time - the joke is that they usually die before they show said personality, and they have this in spite of having next to no uniqueness.

Don't knock it until you try it - they can make legitimately great characters since they have to actively work to earn the narrative causality that most PCs take for granted, which makes it all the more rewarding when you get beyond the point of mook into something beyond that.

Yes I'm always electricity based Xenotheric (alien) Fighter / Warlock
Always sad pedophile tries to save the everything
Always Dex/Int based
Becomes king of the darkness