Friendship is Dragons
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Well, one time I sort of figured that whenever I play a character, they usually end up just being a lot like myself. So for a friend's custom game, I decided to make a character who was unlike myself as much as possible.
I mostly focused on simple differences. Vanessa was quiet, shy, possibly even a little cowardly, but highly optimistic. Needless to say, every time I said something sarcastic, we had to make it out of character.
She did end up having a great character arc that made her less shy and more independent... it just involved two other members of the party dying(they were leaving the campaign and death was actually kind of difficult in my friend's system) and then being picked up and told to keep going by the party's mentor.
I mostly focused on simple differences. Vanessa was quiet, shy, possibly even a little cowardly, but highly optimistic. Needless to say, every time I said something sarcastic, we had to make it out of character.
She did end up having a great character arc that made her less shy and more independent... it just involved two other members of the party dying(they were leaving the campaign and death was actually kind of difficult in my friend's system) and then being picked up and told to keep going by the party's mentor.
Hey blues, out of curiosity, do the names Ever Cleary and George ring any bells for you?
Anyway, being the Dm, its been a bit hard keeping everyone's voices straight. Since I have a wide vocal range (i'm a fairly high tenor) I would change the pitch of my voice when I spoke as different characters. It was super cheesy, but my brother seemed to get a kick out of it
Anyway, being the Dm, its been a bit hard keeping everyone's voices straight. Since I have a wide vocal range (i'm a fairly high tenor) I would change the pitch of my voice when I spoke as different characters. It was super cheesy, but my brother seemed to get a kick out of it
@Euric: I can't say that either name strikes me immediately, although Ever Clearly sounds like someone had a little too much fun with high proof alcohol.
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Ok, I just know a closet brony from some acting classes that had your name as a stage name. He would make subtle mlp quotes every so often until I complemented him on one. I think I might have scared him of of that, lol
It's actually pronounced ay-ver, but It does look like that that at first glance, lol. It's an Irish name I use every so often that literally means 'irish bard'.
Ok, I just know a closet brony from some acting classes that had your name as a stage name. He would make subtle mlp quotes every so often until I complemented him on one. I think I might have scared him of of that, lol
It's actually pronounced ay-ver, but It does look like that that at first glance, lol. It's an Irish name I use every so often that literally means 'irish bard'.
It's not quite on topic, but there was this one Pathfinder campaign where we were doing the Kingmaker "found and run a country" thing, but there were only three players. So, we decided to double up on characters. I distinguished between my wizard and druid through different voices (and gave the halfling a lower, gruffer voice than the human because I thought it was funny. And I still do.) The barbarian and cleric were different as night and day, so their player distinguished between the two of them through attitude.
But then there was our rogue-and-ranger player, who did virtually nothing to distinguish between the two of them. It didn't help that they were twins. Really, the only time I could tell which one she meant was if she asked if something was a trap (which she did constantly after her rogue got trap sense.) The ironic thing is that she was the most enthusiastic roleplayer there. She was just roleplaying the same person twice.
But then there was our rogue-and-ranger player, who did virtually nothing to distinguish between the two of them. It didn't help that they were twins. Really, the only time I could tell which one she meant was if she asked if something was a trap (which she did constantly after her rogue got trap sense.) The ironic thing is that she was the most enthusiastic roleplayer there. She was just roleplaying the same person twice.
Other then the obvious of plying several hours of one video game campaign, and then switching over to another one on the same game, and seeing everything is different and confusing?
Well, during one of our more... dying like campaign's, I just kept rerolling the same character every other few times. Sir Kenith Vagabond, the cheap shot fighter... (please give me a few minutes so I may traverse to school, I will finish story there)
I eventually did get a hang of it, and fought fairly with my opponents, with out dying that much anymore. Think I', out of the woods for two seconds about remembering my old characters, when the DM decided to attack us with our old characters... moral of the story, if you're fighting as essentially two different alignments, pick the honorable first, or get really good really fast as a good guy.
Or revert back and use the enemies tactics against them (I forgot about being honorable again).
Well, the opposite of Specter's throwaway example was when I played the same character in the Saint's Row series, the Mass Effect series and SWTOR (because of the same voice actress). I romanced Garrus in ME2, then played SR2 and was disappointed when he (Tobias) was already married to someone else.
So, years later, when I finally caught up with my fantasy lore, I decided to roll a dwarf cleric. Despite my best efforts though, that guy's dwarf had been so ingrained into my memory that my dwarf kept acting like his at certain points (and always at those points, oddly enough.) I finally gave up after a while because I was just playing his dwarf at that point and ended up rolling a new character. I've yet to try playing a dwarf since then and that's really the only instance I can think of where I've accidentally slipped into the wrong character.
Well, except the Orsimer Favored Soul of Obad-Hai. The only change in him was my inability to roll a hit with his crossbow.
I think the best example would be Ophilia, the Dark Heresy Assassin I've been ranting about for months and recent-ishly finished playing, but I must be getting better, because her shift was more dynamic, and felt more like plain old character development from "cold jaded teenaged murderer" to "cheerful jaded twentysomething murderer." Her habit of snacking on food bars in times of stress and/or after a kill and her EXTREME protectiveness of people she cared about were constants around which the change revolved, as was the paternal advice of our combat specialist Lucius (whose dead daughter was about Oph's age).
I once got caught up in the story and forgot I was playing a Paladin. Basically, we met up with the main villain and he monologued for a while. After he was done, I won initiative and I tried using Chaos Bolt. After about fifteen seconds of awkward silence, I realized my mistake. Since then, the DM has joked about me multiclassing to Sorcerer whenever and wherever possible.
(This story got me commenting for the first time.)
The easiest way to slip is to hear someone else using an accent, while you don't really use one. For exemple, at the LARP I go there's this race called the Medjaï, basically arab-like people. Their accent is the most contagious.
On another note, my usual DM can't change his voice for the life of his so anytime he tries to, it's always Symeon, the Gnome Illusionist. Even if it's supposed to be the Elven King or a Human Ship Captain. We like to tease him about that.
The easiest way to slip is to hear someone else using an accent, while you don't really use one. For exemple, at the LARP I go there's this race called the Medjaï, basically arab-like people. Their accent is the most contagious.
On another note, my usual DM can't change his voice for the life of his so anytime he tries to, it's always Symeon, the Gnome Illusionist. Even if it's supposed to be the Elven King or a Human Ship Captain. We like to tease him about that.
I had a Shadowrun shaman who was a southerner farm girl, with a slight drawl accent. Occasionally I'd go too far with the accent and slip into a pretty decent impression of Apple Bloom. :x
Shadowrun Crusaders Breaking an Entering Squad Go!!
Shadowrun Crusaders Breaking an Entering Squad Go!!
Well, there was that time when my Chaotic Good male Favored Soul of Finder Wivenspur believed for about half a scene he was the Legal Neutral female Cleric of Boccob from the previous campaign. It was weird that nobody noticed, since he wasn't acting quite like the semi-free-spirited guy he usually was and was going instead for rather stringy "serious business" attitude coupled with mild exhasperation.
We only realized the mistake when I said "she casts dispel magic". For them it was the "she" that gave the mistake up, for me it was the "casts dispel magic", since this new character didn't even have that spell.
Do *you* have a story about that? Not that you have to have one, I don't think Raxon would accidentally slip into the wrong character (emphasis on "accidentally").
We only realized the mistake when I said "she casts dispel magic". For them it was the "she" that gave the mistake up, for me it was the "casts dispel magic", since this new character didn't even have that spell.
Do *you* have a story about that? Not that you have to have one, I don't think Raxon would accidentally slip into the wrong character (emphasis on "accidentally").
Ah well, I'll tell it anyways. My character this one time had serious split-personality syndrome. Almost as if he was bipolar, but instead of swapping from happy to angry to sad, he'd trade between being a calm and collected ranger into a overly happy bard. Every day I had to have whichever one I was playing as roll a will save. If they didn't make the save (15 or higher on a d20), they swapped, literally turning around and suddenly having a completely different inventory, different skills, and even different armor and clothing on.
At one point, we're fighting against some evil warlocks or cultists or something, and they throw a spell at my bard that's supposed to turn him into their evil minion. I fail the will-save, and turn into the ranger, now attacking the cultists with ranged attacks out the wazoo instead of just buffing my allies. But I'm still acting as if I was playing the bard, shouting "Haha, Charm Beast!" (Flame Arrow) etc, etc
Afterwards, we ended up finding a strange artifact in the enemy's cave lair, and as my ranger was usually used as the trap-checker, my bard (still under the spell's odd effects) waltz up to it and picks it up. It was basically the Dewitchery Diamond (from EGS, Raxon probably knows what I mean), and as such my Ranger (still all happy-bard-times mode) and my Bard (still all Batman-cool-and-collected) split apart. Then it becomes super zany as they realize they've been the same person for so long, and an ancient god is awakened to kill the "abomination" created by the artifact (seriously the DM must've been a fan), and we get an epic-tier battle while I try to keep up with both personalities fighting at the same time, with the wrong skills at stats (Think Batman calling out a bat-a-rang attack, and instead strumming a guitar to play a lullaby. It was pretty much like that. In character).
Good times were had, confusing as they were.
Anyhow, onto the character slippage.
In my last Ponyfinder campaign, I was playing a stallion who had three wives. So I would, on any given quest, be playing any of the four for however many sessions there were in that quest. The wedding bands they all wore were special-made by Queen Illiana for our ceremony after we'd finished some super important quest for her, and they acted as a means of extreme long-distance communication (using ley lines and the like), like a primitive cell phone/walkie-talkie. Whenever a bit of another character started slipping in, the others would all chime in with questions about what it was like back home, because obviously the wife had just called me up to remind me I couldn't ride my bike indoors.
The only two characters who were most definitely their own selves were Overwatch (my main PC, an Unchained Rogue), and Depth Perception (Percy, Watch's son, and a Ranger who gave up all spell slots for an auto turret that shoots based on Concentration checks). Watch was cursed to be unable to swear (and still made horrible puns), and Percy was young and meek. The female characters all just ended up blurring together at times, mostly accidently.
once played a character who had a Jekyll and Hyde thing going on. Without telling any of the other players about it, as it was going to be a plot twist.
aand then I slipped up and went into 'evil mode' .. in charater- mid battle. Whoops.
aand then I slipped up and went into 'evil mode' .. in charater- mid battle. Whoops.
Perhaps she should try giving one a hug..? ...no, they're already scared and jumping to conclusions. That wouldn't go over too well.
I had a princess in a D&D game try this and she too got left hanging by the PCs. Apparently they were all afraid of the medieval equivalent of a lawsuit XD
Watch for their reactions. xD
*mecha pilot pulls off insane troll logic plan that works brilliantly*
"Good job Davith!" ...*realizes I just complimented the 4E warlock for the mech pilot's maneuver*
Don't worry Luna I won't leave you hanging.
HOOFBUMP! /)
HOOFBUMP! /)
So, uh, not to be the guy who comments just to nitpick, but I'd like to ask our wonderful author: did you include the Zecora bit a few pages back as part of the Tabitha St. Germain joke? The misconception that Zecora is voiced by Tabitha died in the early days of Season 2; she's voiced by Brenda Crichlow.
But, again, I don't want to be that guy, so: first-time poster, long-time reader, great comic. Though I don't know how deep into the comment section you actually read, so... XD
But, again, I don't want to be that guy, so: first-time poster, long-time reader, great comic. Though I don't know how deep into the comment section you actually read, so... XD
Yeah, and Zecora fits in with the joke about Rarity's player finding a new character, but based on the author comments after the strip, it seemed like Newbiespud was including her in the joke *because she's another Tabitha character*, which she isn't.
It seems that I missed that invitation.. Ah well! Whether one is part of the inner circle or in the outermost ring, we are all part of the herd!
I already payed last month! How can dues be needed so soon again?
Speaking of shenanigans, Kriss, Raxon, why do you make it sound like I'm part of something awesome? Honestly, I've put my foot in my mouth enough times to have the permanent taste of leather on my tongue so I doubt I have any tact to be a part of such a thing. And what is this nonsense with going into the mines to perform sacred rites? Art thou suggesting we are of a noble knighthood of the court of His Majesty, Sir Newbiespud The First, in the fair realm of Friendship is Dragons? I say, my friends, I wouldst disagree with thou if it wasn't such an intriguing idea. Very well, Sir Raxon, Sir Kriss, though tis odd that we wilt fill thy coffers with the coins of the newly recruited, I commend thou f'r thy grand idea and bid ye farewell. Come, Sir Specter, let us be off and defend our fair realm from those that wish it harm!
...And let us grab some doughnuts along the way, I'm really craving a maple bar for some reason.
Or if he doesn't want I'll gotten goods, we shall delve it into charity for animals and children... I just don't want Kriss and Raxon (or any of us unworthy peasants) from getting power or resources from the unwitty or less fortuned.
By the way, I like the picture you are wearing today, from where was it made, Mykin?
As for the picture, it's a bit of an annoying story for me. When I found this picture on google image, I put what I thought was the artist's name in the title of the picture, as I like to give credit where it is due. So when you asked about it, I went looking for the guy's site...and didn't find it. So I hunted down where the picture was posted and found that 3 different people (none of whom had the same name that I had) had posted the very same picture. So I'm at a loss on who actually drew it. It is of Sakuya Ohtori from the VN rewrite...or rather I think it's Kyousuke Natsume from Little Busters cosplaying as him.
Either way, I was looking for a picture for my sorcerer for my Thursday Pathfinder game and I just ended up liking it a lot so there you go. I guess I have a thing for trench coats, they just make you look cooler. I do plan on drawing something similar to that picture to use as my avatar sometime in the future so we'll see how long it lasts.
Like Newbiespud, he's a YouTube-er. You probably haven't heard of him, I found him by accident and liked what he had. SO, I propose we aid him and his channel, as we have for Newbiespud.
here is a video explaining what he's done and doing (it's a little old).
and here is the video explaining the situation.
... might as well add some music for a triple video with a hint of unity.
My whole group is guilty of this. because we do our gaming on a collabrative document called Titanpad, sometimes characters from other games slip in to take the place of who should be there.
One example is that on a plane, Kit, one character was replaced with Trevor, another character by the same guy. We usually point it out and fix it quickly though.
One example is that on a plane, Kit, one character was replaced with Trevor, another character by the same guy. We usually point it out and fix it quickly though.
...Oh wait, this whole arc is based on a premise that is one giant Tabitha St. Germain voice actor joke. Nevermind.
Uh, hey! There's a new Fallout is Dragons, finally!
Session 28: Libsyn YouTube