Gamer Meme

[jackofallgeeks]

Yoinked from postvixen
This is actually something that my Brothers and I did a lot in middleschool and highschool...

The basic idea is to make me, Andrew, a character for some game. Give me stats, abilities, alignment, special powers, the works. Then, take this, and post it on your journal -- it's a Meme, after all.

Use whatever game system you like (DnD, WoD, Morrowind, AniMayhem, Unsung, M:tG, City of Heros, GURPS, etc); I know bunches of them, and those I don't I'd be willing to learn.

Comments

[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

I'll bite (even though I don't know you *all* that well)... I'll use D&D 3.5. Just 'cause I like making characters in D&D.

JackofAllGeeks
Lawful Good1 Human Wizard 42

STR 10
DEX 83
CON 10
INT 16
WIS 11
CHA 12

Feats: Scribe Scroll, Skill Focus (Knowledge/Religion), Craft Wondrous Item4, Animal Affinity5

Skills: Ride 3, Knowledge/Religion 7, Craft/Clockworks 7, Spellcraft 4, Concentration 4, Decipher Script6 4, Knowledge/Arcana 6, Handle Animal 2

Spells Known:
0 - all
1 - Protection from Evil, Mount, Comprehend Languages, Detect Undead, Erase7, Magic Missle8
2 - Detect Thoughts, Locate Object, Hideous Laughter, Touch of Idiocy9, Fox's Cunning

Equipment of Note: Ring of Protection +1, Riding Horse (Margaret), Horseshoes of a Zephyr

Notes:

1 I wavered between LG and CG. I usually consider libertarian leanings CG (every person for herself!)... but I get the sense that you'd follow church doctrine over your political views if push came to shove.

2 Hey - you're just finishing up geek/wizard school! :)

3 I've actually never seen how coordinated you are. But gamers with high DEX are rare. Ditto for techies with high CON...

4 You can make custom boxes, right?

5 You seem to lavish a significant amount of attention on the car... which of course, a D&D char wouldn't have. But I figure you'd be good with mounts instead.

6 "What the hell is this? FORTRAN?"

7 FORMAT C:\

8 Not that this really mimics anything about you, but *all* wizards take Magic Missile.

9 Though for some reason, you insist on calling it "Touch of the User"

[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

Er... lots of those numbers (like the 2 after Wiz 4) were supposed to be superscripts, but I f**ked up the HTML. And dang, you can't edit comments. My bad.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

I figured that out when I got to your footnotes. :p
I was wondering what godlike feat I'd performed in your present to earn a DEX of 83...

-laughs for days and days-

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

As a note, I tend to think of myself more Chaotic Good than Lawful Good -- the way I've understood it is that an LG always works within the system, regardless of what that system is. I'm more inclined to break a rule or two here and there, especially if I think it's unreasonable or out-right wrong, in favor of my own code -- which just happens to match up pretty well with Church Doctrine. -laughs-

I also think I have a reasonable amount of coordination and grace (I played Soccer for years, ran cross-country, and currently take ballroom lessons), though I think you've got me with CON.

I think you covered all the key points, though. "Touch of the User" and "Hideous Laughter"! Ha! And points for Margaret. ^__^

Re: -laughs for days and days-

[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

Well, like I said, I've never seen you move much. We'll up your DEX to 14. With that and the Bracers of AC6 that you'll inevitably happen upon, you'll be in business.

Re: -laughs for days and days-

[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

Also, and as a side note... that's why I always thought of LG as one of the more interesting alignments to play. The old 2e rules gave fighting against slavery as an example of a LG act - which isn't working within the rules of the slave society. My understanding was that LG characters needed to adhere pretty strictly to *some* code, but not necessarily society's prevailing one (and, in a vaguer sense, not one that was purely personal, like a CG char's). Part of the fun I always had with characters was that different characters' conceptions of what lawfulness and good required could be very divergent... one of the most fun sequences I ever played was a tense argument between my LG ranger and the party's paladin over what to do with some captured Orcs (I favored mercy b/c we had them disabled, he favored executing them b/c they were lawbreakers).

Re: -laughs for days and days-

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Alas, I've never been in a DnD game that had much Role-playing involved, though I will say that on principle LG would be interesting to play -- but for me specifically because they would *have* to play by whatever rules they were given. I wouldn't see fighting slavery as a LG thing to do, more a CG thing, as it places personal freedoms over societal dictates. The LG places society, and thereby whatever rules the society follows, over all else. This makes a nice little opening for LG villains, someone who's put in the position of opposing the 'heroes' because of the laws (maybe those of a corrupt baron).

At the same time, I see no trouble with the argument between the Ranger and the Paladin -- I'm against the idea that LG means "Boy-Scout Straight-laces", and think that LGs can have any and all human traits from sloth to wrath to petty prejudices against Druish girls. You both agree that the orcs need be stopped, but disagree on when 'stopped' is -- death or disablement.

Now I feel *really* geeky for debating the ethics of DnD's alignment system.
:p

Re: -laughs for days and days-

[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

This harkens back to undergrad, when I used to spend way too much time in the Gamers' Guild office, discussing WoD mythology, but no matter...

I disagree that LG chars need always play by all the rules (or whatever rules they are given, presumably by the government, etc.). I could perfectly well accept a character who is, say, LG but accepts some version of natural law theory (think Aquinas), who considered any positive law that violated the natural law invalid (as, e.g., slavery plausibly would). I think what would make the cut between someone like that who was LG and one who was NG/CG would be whether or not their idea of the natural law was societal or otherwise institutionalized. The Aquinian, who took church doctrine to be more or less identical with natural law would be LG, while a Thoreau type who believed natural law could be found by introspection and reflection would more plausibly be counted as NG or CG.

[surichan.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do this for you, but it's been so long since I've done any sort of by-the-book roleplaying that the best I could do right now is make you a character out of CoH...and that would be kinda silly and stupid.

How I wish we were still playing the Hengeyokai campaign in White Wolf.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-laughs- Well, I through CoH into that list cause I was pretty sure it was all you knew -- but you needn't if you don't want to.

Meh, I think my interest in actually Role-Playing in these games is waning, in great part to the fact that I've yet to have a really good experience with any of it. Kirt, my current DM, is a great guy, but... Well, the Changeling group we had was a great group of people, but the game fell more-or-less to infighting, inability to see eye-to-eye, and differing play styles. The Werewolf game was more Traditional, but schedules conspired to kill that one. Unsung is going well enough, but there's only a couple of us. I'm thinking I may just relegate Role-Playing to source material for my other pursuits, namely writing.

Though... I keep meaning to post about it, but I got my new World of Darkness and Vampire: The Requiem books in. I'm reading Wod, and I love it! In fact, I love it so much that I'm seriously considering running a game at CUA if I can get The Guys interested -- it would mean a pretty consistent group of players, and maybe give me the chance of having a good game... But we'll see. That's just a long, long way of saying: Yeah, we should see about getting a group together sometime or something. I think it'd be fun to RP with you sometime. Know any other Players?