Hello,
I have another new topic for you:
Excerpts from my gallery of used and unused
Hero Wars characters. Those are player-characters
that I made up at one point or another for myself,
for convention gaming or my old gaming group at
home. Most of them are sadly unused, and since
the old group was dissolved last year, with people
moving away to other towns and others entirely
leaving the hobby, they are unlikely to be used any time
soon. But I tell you a few things about them here; maybe
you can use one or the other as an inspiration somewhere
(or as a joke?).
What's interesting to me is that the following characters
were never originally intended to come across as "funny"
or even as spoofs, they simply developed to have that
potential. What's more, I guess I have always been the
humorous type of game master.
Here are the notables from the gallery:
(I can send you complete Hero Wars stats for these
off-list, if you should request them.)
SALHIL, Barntari farm lad
originally from my first RuneQuest group,
created and played by my buddy Michael.
-- used to carry an inconspicuous small sickle
with an Ernaldan healing rune on it, also fought with
that sickle and refused to practice with any more
high-profile weapons than a very simple sword;
loved animals and outdoor activities, ridiculed townsfolk
and never got used to "coin money".
Generally very composed, quiet, introverted, naive as
hell, and basically the sweetest guy in the world.
Survived spirit possession in a haunted house,
zombies and vampires, had his strength drained by a
Lamia but managed to fight it off eventually. Famous
for trapping a hellion in a wooden box and cutting
two pirates' right arm off. Became friends with some
Aldryami who permitted them into some of their forests when
he travelled across Ralios, was ambushed and almost killed
by Goblin snipers and still made it out OK (that was under the
old RQ game rules with Hit Points!), later trampled to death by
a chaotic stag-monster and resurrected by a healing
priestess; then managed to cut the head off of a
40-foot sea demon after his Uzko buddy Nhyrridkhyk
had pounded that monster into near-unconsciousness.
Since Nhyrridkhyk was cowardly killed by a guardian
soldier from the demon's cult, Salhil made it back to
his friends unharmed and since he had decapitated
the monster, he was celebrated as the big hero and
was paid such a high amount in reward by a wealthy
Issaries merchant for freeing the merchant's fiancée
that he became ridiculously rich and lived in a seaport
town for several months. He alter set off to return to
his native stead bearing fancy armor and a big sword
with diamonds in its hilt that he had no use for.
I think he was going to donate the diamond-embellished
sword to a friendly temple, and lived happily ever after.
Favorite quote, when he first went to a big city: "Do your women here bear you so many children that you have to add another story to the houses?"
OK, that post ran a bit long,
so I am saving my other favourites for next time.
Norbert
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