Friends, roleplayers; lend me your White Wolf characters!

Cafe Society
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As gamemaster of my Vampire: The Masquerade group, I am currently attempting to create my magnum opus. I have allowed my players to create Elder characters, and have an eight-tiered main plot structure, with factions and sideplots aplenty, laid out across various settings in cities across the U.S. and Canada. All that remains is to send life flowing through my creation’s intricate veins…and for this, I need the lifeblood of any roleplaying session: characters.

When I GM, I always prefer to have plenty of “spare” NPCs (mortals and supernatural beings that aren’t integral to the main plot) created beforehand so that, in case the players decide to pursue an angle I hadn’t planned to focus on (and when don’t they?), I can keep things lively and memorable instead of having the party interact with Ye Olde Nosferatu Informant or Brujah Thug #6. For most of my games, this is handily accomplished with 20-40 fully fleshed out NPC sheets. For a game of the size I’m currently planning, though, that number is going to have to hit triple digits…and, as I’m sure you can imagine, it may be hard to find the time to think up 100 personalities, draw up 100 character sheets and write 100 interwoven backstories.

And so, my dear Dopers, I turn to you. Got a character you like? Post it here. Give me the name, the stats, and (if you like) a description of personality and backstory. Vampire, werewolf, demon, hunter, mage, mortal, I’ll take them all.* I’ll take the characters you give me, incorporate them into my plot (I may have to change their locations, obviously, but I’ll leave the character facts otherwise unaltered), and report back on what I’m having them do. If there’s any interest, once the game gets under way, I’ll let people know what’s happening to their creations…of course, given the overwhelming popularity of my last Vampire thread (I think it got three replies), I’m not going to push it.

Characters, please! And thanks!

*I have no particular use for faeries or mummies; we don’t have the source books and I have no Earthly notion how I’d incorporate them even if we did.

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I’ll have to dig him up, but I’ll post his stats. Garou, Get of Fenris Metis, Hand of Tyr named “Karl Less-Sinister” who’s metis deformity was that he was born without a left hand. Earned a grand klaive by the end of the campaign, as fitting the incarnation of the norse god Tyr. ;> Really fun to play… brooding merciless asskicker.

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Have to pull out my folder of sheets, but I’ve got a Lasombra from Dark Ages and there’s Des, my Gangrel or Sybil, my Malkie.

sighs I miss my LARP group

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Oh come now. A gathering of this many geeks from all walks of life has to have some roleplayers in it. Where’s the love?

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There’s plenty of Roleplayers here. We’re not all White Wolf players, however. Asking a D&D or DC Heroes or Shadowrun player for use of his WoD character isn’t going to get the results you want.

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Indeed. :wink:

I was more or less just being facetious with the one bump we’re allowed; since I posted the thread in the middle of the night (U.S. time), perchance there are WoD players out there who haven’t seen it yet and might be able to lend a hand (and a character). If not, then oh well, back down it goes to be lost to the sands of time. I wasn’t trying to imply that every D&D player had piles of Vampires and Mages sitting around in the closet.

Just that they should…

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Ask KlondikeGeoff. He has a more intimate knowledge of the Garou than most of us.
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The trouble with this is that what I have are WoD PCs. Thus, they’re sort of designed to be the center of the plot, not accessories. :wink:

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This sort of depends on what version of the WOD you are going with.

Remiel - 7th (through Diablerie) gen Ravnos. He’s one part swashbuckler, one part man-who-would-be-king. He started out as a relic hunter but now operates a smuggling ring/underground railroad of sorts helping vampires and goods move between Camarilla controlled areas and Sabbat areas and Werewold territory. He really thinks he’s a player in the larger goings on and throws his weight around accordingly. The only thing that has kept him alive is a boon he holds over an upper echelon True Black Hand member.

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Lucky (Only name given. Some digging will find Bert ‘Lucky’ Grimaldi).
Malkavian mafiosi in a former life. Problem is, he’s still sort-of living it. His entire ‘family’ was either killed or sent up the river 50-70 years ago, and, well… He wasn’t real stable to begin with.
Lucky’s much like DC’s two-face, although he doesn’t have a coin- he has a deck of cards. On each card is a suggestion on how to act. The smaller cards are small things (The three of hearts is ‘Be cheerful’), but the bigger ones are trouble (The ace of spades is 'Kill ‘em all’.)
Sadly, Lucky has managed to get himself connected just because there are people out there who love chaos. He’s got power, he still lives like he’s high-level mob, and those behind his ‘throne’ keep well hidden and have plausible deniability. He’s also, as his name might suggest, simply amazingly lucky.
The worst part? All face cards are reminders of someone from his old ‘family’. If he draws one and you’re the right general sex and build of that person, you’re now him or her to Lucky. The queen of hearts is his wife, whom he loves more than life or unlife itself. The jack of diamonds is his son, whom he also loves, but would rather not have him get involved in anything illegal (he’ll get really protective at times…)
Of course, the next time he draws a face card, roles switch again…

There’s a rumor that there’s a card missing from his deck. It could just be people saying, “Lucky’s not playing with a full deck,” or it could be true. What’s on the card is anyone’s guess.

(In the long-running game, the card was rumored to either say, “You are human.” Which would make him forget he was a vampire and restart his life from scratch, or “You are a vampire”, which would snap him in new and different ways.)