tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303855.post6427640003719426359..comments2023-04-14T08:17:37.446-04:00Comments on The Blog of Siram: On Roleplay, Characters and WritingMWThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446603415730525882noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303855.post-42734471854434997462008-07-23T00:23:00.000-04:002008-07-23T00:23:00.000-04:00Sounds like Haywood and Nifty would probably have ...Sounds like Haywood and Nifty would probably have a lot of fun together. ;)<BR/><BR/><BR/>Rumen has been strong-willed and temperamental since the beginning. Most of my characters are like that, springing to life in the first sentence I write for them, and exerting control over their own destinies, though with different approaches. Rumen tends to be very direct and detailed when he's mad at me, with lots of yelling, while Thomas will just dig in like a mule and refuse to budge, without telling me what's wrong, because I'm supposed to be able to figure it out myself. :P I also have another character (named Edward) that started out DOA because I had his backstory completely wrong, and he wouldn't come alive until I fixed it. That took a few years to figure out...<BR/><BR/>As a general rule, it works best if I just do whatever they tell me. ;)MWThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09446603415730525882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303855.post-82477816115988615732008-07-22T22:43:00.000-04:002008-07-22T22:43:00.000-04:00My own favorite character was a Champions characte...My own favorite character was a <I>Champions</I> character called Captain Nifty, in a late '80s campaign. <I>Champions</I>, for the uninitiated, was a superhero game, and Nifty could be best described as a kindred soul to The Tick (who didn't exist at the time!). Nifty's origin story was that he actually <I>was</I> a comic book character--a Superman knockoff from that period in the thirties when every comics publisher was trying to copy National Comics' success with the Big Blue Guy until National sued them out of existence. Nifty was given life in the contemporary world through an accident involving toxic waste, a back issue of <I>Nifty Comics</I> in a garage, and the imagination of a little boy who became Nifty's occasional sidekick.<BR/><BR/>Nifty's high point in the game came when the party was fighting a comics-obsessed villain who modeled his crimes after his passion. He also recognized Nifty. While being interrogated, this villain claimed his secret lair was "hidden in Wayne Manor, in Gotham City."<BR/><BR/>Now, the first thing you should know is that the campaign was set in the "real world," and Gotham City didn't exist outside DC Comics in the game, either.<BR/><BR/>The second thing you should know is that Nifty, despite claiming to be the world's greatest genius, was about as smart as a character in a cheap Superman knockoff funnybook given accidental life by toxic waste and a hyperactive child might be expected to be; i.e. not very.<BR/><BR/>"Gotham!" Nifty says, "That's another name for New York City!" Which would have been a brilliant deduction in <I>Nifty Comics</I> no. 17, but led to much eye-rolling and ignored comments by another player that everyone knew Gotham City in the comics was based on Chicago.<BR/><BR/>The result was a little side-mission-ette where Nifty flew to New York, discovered there really was a Wayne Manor inhabited by a nice little old lady who gave Nifty cookies and was puzzled by Nifty's insistence there was a secret villains' lair under the house.<BR/><BR/>Ooh, was the Captain disappointed when he finally, eventually, after thoroughly searching the house, and after giving it a great deal of thought, <I>finally</I> figured out the villain had <I>lied</I> to him, the rascally rapscallion....<BR/><BR/>Good times. Twenty years down the road, I still kind of miss good ol' Nifty.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303855.post-79039061565187887462008-07-22T20:13:00.000-04:002008-07-22T20:13:00.000-04:00I like Rumen (or does he go by Mr. Radomir?) too, ...I like Rumen (or does he go by Mr. Radomir?) too, he seems like he has grown to the point that he's exerting some control over his own destiny. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com