RPG Roles

[Curubethion]

I was thinking...it would be interesting to discuss the different "stereotypes" of RPG roles, as well as the roles some of our characters currently are in.
For instance, all of my characters are mysterious ranger types from the North or the South or wherever, with unknown backgrounds.
What about you all? Do you typically play the same type of character?

[Lotesse]

Conflicted, complex moody and loyal-to-their-kind Nazgul. That's my bag. I don't care for simple goody-good characters; I like 'em dark and complex, with remnants of inner goodness and integrity that always competes with the dominant evilness typical for a Nazgul, so that there's always some kind of big inner battle going on. I hate stark stereotypes. Like to mix it up, you know? But all in all, I gotta say the Nine take the cake, hands down.

[Earniel]

I'm not sure in which stereotype my characters fall, but I prefer playing more ordinary, plausible characters. Mostly female and mostly I try to give them a good sense of humour. One shouldn't be afraid to laugh with one's own character.

I tend to stay away from playing mixed breeds, special magical skills, kinship to canon-characters, feisty tempers or dark & broody types with tortured or mysterious pasts. Some of those characteristics have been done so many times that it's beyond me to bring anything new and fresh into it. Besides, someone has to play the 'normal' character against which the other special stereotypes can contrast better.

With weapons I can be a little more diverse, like a fighting-staff, a spear or twin knives. Never something too fanciful and I don't want to play a character that can use every weapon with mastery. A good character should have some flaws.

[Huorn]

When I post in a RPG, my character is usually a Limb Lithe tree. The place I go to most often is the Lotr Plaza. The reason for posting on this site is because they allow me to RP female Ents and even Huorns.

[Lady Marion Magdalena]

I generally end up playing very changable characters, or multiple characters if the role play in question is comes with a high degree of flexibility (or sillyness...)

For more plot-heavy role-plays I like well rounded, plausible characters who fit well with the canon story. I do tend to link mine with canon characters, but I try to do so in ways that don't mess with what's already written of those characters.

Either way mine tend to be fairly practical, they don't panic very often and they tend to keep busy so as to avoid angsting. I like to keep them very adaptable and prone to having back-up plans or just one more trick hidden up their sleeve. For temperment, calm and easy-going until challanged at which point they become stubborn and/or slippery and a bit viscious.

I can't recall ever playing a male as my primary character, I prefer to play females. I don't dwell overmuch on appearance, except for height which is usually at an extreme, for example:

Willow at 2'6"
and now Mahta at 7'4"

don't know why I do that...

And then my weapons are always either very strange (like the thing that shot bubbles out and turned people into blue piglets) or very straightforward (mace, sword or spear).

[The last sane person]

IN general, you have very strange characters. Some more so that usual.

As for my characters, I have a slew of them. I play both male and female well enough, though I prefer male, as it is harder to create a pausible male character (since I am female). I can be anything from honest pirate to numenorean of the 2-3rd age. Not too fussy in apperance, mostly specific on build and height. My characters are all very flexible.

Current characters are

Raendil: Young Knight to king Valandil Isildurion, Numenorean and Roheric blood. Better horseman than most.
Marthalion: Second knight to Valandil. Pure Numenorean Rochdol champion.
Shah: Aged last alliance veteran and widowed, loosing both sons. <------My favorite one.

[trolls' bane]

Mine have always been eccentric inventors or mysterious wizards living in complete seclusion except for the unusual stories about them who all have had names from Sherlock Holmes and often have insane plans to win the battle but disappear after a month or so of inactivity even if the RPG starts up again.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

i have three main types
- faligorn, a man from gondor, captain of lebennin, leader of an army, all round hero
- galiforn, an earth being, similar to tom bombadil, but in dwarf form
- the wizards (currently allatar & pallando, the blue wizards), everyone knows wizards, no explanation needed

[Rev. Justin Timberlake]

Hmm. I am hopeless at RPGs. I lose interest as quickly as I develop it.

That being said, my first character was an extremely perverted Thing (not even sure what I was) in the Room (Room: locked). Luckily I kept him under control. Next character in the second Wine RPG was a Maia disguised as an Elf Lord.

[The last sane person]

and after the first two posts he dissapeared...we think the thing in the Room (locked) had something to do with it.

[Rev. Justin Timberlake]

I remember the Thing had a very large sceptre.

[The last sane person]

Yep, and for a minute it talked and liked to be pet as I recall...Skittish thing really. What can I say, I like em tall, dark and locked in a room...