Ye Elde Times!

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So I’m musing on about four different ideas for Friday’s post, and I’m wondering if there’s any interest in these parts for sharing old characters.

For those of us who are RPGers, there are certainly old pieces of paper with scribbles and Coke stains and whatnot that inspire great fondness on everyone’s respective part(s).

Is this too much like navel-gazing, or are people interested in seeing other people’s old characters? Can we dragoon the readership into sharing? Whatsayyou?

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  1. sharing a character is like sharing a bit of someone’s soul.
    But sharing a GM’s world allows an incisive insight into how they think the world works.

    Sounds — useful. Kinda like handwriting analysis (except for people younger than me.)

        • Simon would make a great GM. Definitely the type who would tell a player “You had five magazines of ammunition. Just a reminder you only have 5 non-silver rounds left and there’s a pack of werewolves hunting you down.”

          • I’ve had this exchange, more than once.

            Player: “I shoot him with my silver-tipped arrow”
            Me: “How many of those do you have left? You’ve been using them a lot this session…”
            Player: “Let me check…”
            Me: “Oh, you don’t know? Then you haven’t been keeping track, bad player, no biscuit. You’re empty, mister, you just shot a regular arrow.”
            Player: “No, wait, then I’ll drop my bow and pull out the silver dagger…”
            Me: “You can do that next round.”

  3. I’ve long-since lost or gotten rid of all my sourcebooks, so I don’t think I have any character sheets around any more to share, unfortunately.

      • One of my standard NPC villains is a retconned magic-user I used to play and then lost his character sheet.

        Rebuilding him as a bad guy was hugely entertaining.

      • I possibly could speak on one Vampire character and a Archangel character though I can’t recall their names anymore.

        I’m really disappointed I can’t remember any of my Warhammer Fantasty Roleplay or Deadlands characters.

        • Ah, Warhammer. I still have the hard back book. I did not play it much, but loved the death table.

  4. I think it would be fun for talking about worlds and characters. I still remember my first character ever. Named Eltine Everglade (I was 10). He was an elf (back when that was a class). He ran through module B1 Keep on the Borderlands all by himself.

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