farik Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Alternate Earth Characters #5 Your GM has announced he's going to run an alternate Earth game and he wants you to make a modified version of your character to fit his "Alternate Earth Setting. The GM is being deliberately unclear about whether you'll be playing your alt character or if your regular character will be facing them. So what is different about your character from Magi-Tech Earth It's like earth but magic is common and science is uncommon and/or forbidden knowledge. People use flying carpets instead of cars, crystal balls instead of phones, magic wands instead of guns; etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Again, Twilight would be pretty much the same as he is now. However instead of a boy who was raised by dark magic types and denying that legacy for technology, he'd be a boy raised by evil techie types who denied that path for magic. Of course his arrows would be magic instead of technologically based and would thus be capable of a wider variety of effects and he'd probably have alchemical potions in his utility belt. In fact he's probably a practicing alchemist. Might even use a wand instead of the crossbow. So, erm....I guess he's not so much the same after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 No changes. Even Iron Will. Offically a gadgeteer, it has been established that he is actually a techno-mage, his gadgets cannot be reverse-engineered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farik Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Kennethw ould use dangerous and advanced magics to embue himself with a modified form of lycanthropy the biggest difference would be Husky's "background story" "I am an exiled noble from a realm across the ether my parents have sent me here to defend this land until I can return to the throne. Prepare to face my steel vile demon!" Husky would use magical items like a sword and mystic armor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Gnome Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Plasma would be an enchanter who sacrificed herself to destroy an evil artifact in a mighty blaze. (Bit it off and dove into the crack of doom?) Instead of dying she became fused with the artifact and now wields elemental fire magic. Seraph, Lin-Si, Ace - no significant changes. For a science fiction fan I make a lot of high fantasy characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caris Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Hard to say, but the most likely scenario is that Dr. Patton attempted to forge some melding of science and sorcery in creating Adonis. Adonis would have been granted less actual physical might, and more innate talent for sorcery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Anthem, though non-magical now, would be essentially the same. She's already non-technological. Uncle Slam's origin would involve state sorcerors and infusion of forbidden magics. Audra Blue, being cybernetic in parts, would likely instead be host to some sort of demonic parts, transplanted to her by a vile sorceror who experimented in such subjects. She would have psychic abilities that allow her to know what people are doing across the world but at the same time be vulnerable to direct psychic attack (being mostly offensive in nature she'd have little ability to shut out traffic). She would spend alot of time away from people because of their thoughts leaking into her head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WhammeWhamme Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Flippant: hrm. He'd have been resurrected in a more powerful form by otherworldly sorcerors, rather than just repaired by otherwordly scientists... he'd be barred from gymnastics for having innate magic... He'd still be much the same. Wraith would have a much more mystical bent, being a Necromancer of some description (although a GOOD one). His power is currently mutant in nature, so that'd change to a literal curse (thy, and thy children shall forever more see the restless dead...), rather than a simple drawback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Neither Starguard, Dr. Pain, nor Baron von Darien have technological conceptions. The Baron's already a magical creature (vampire), Starguard's got the Power Cosmic and that ports equally well to all superhero worlds, and Dr. Pain's a brick... there are many possible magical origins for bricks. Of course, on Magic World, he wouldn't be a former WWF champion, he'd be a famous bare-handed pit fighter or pankrationist (non-lethal matches, of course). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by Chuckg Neither Starguard, Dr. Pain, nor Baron von Darien have technological conceptions. The Baron's already a magical creature (vampire), Starguard's got the Power Cosmic and that ports equally well to all superhero worlds, and Dr. Pain's a brick... there are many possible magical origins for bricks. Of course, on Magic World, he wouldn't be a former WWF champion, he'd be a famous bare-handed pit fighter or pankrationist (non-lethal matches, of course). That assumes Magic World doesn't have the WWF, which doesn't neccesarily follow. Just because they use magic doesn't mean they have a the same taste for scripted violence that folks do in today's world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vex Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Adrenaline and Realm would be the same, except for the origins of the few gadgets they carry. Hecabus wouldn't change other than liking the idea of carrying a REALLY huge gun and pulling it out of a magic bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I suppose in a magical world Zl'f would be a real sylph or sprite. She's already small (4'10") but in such a case I probably make her about a foot tall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Sprigg Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 Snowbird's fine as he is; no changes there. Likewise for Comet. Archangel might be somewhat different; perhaps his sword has a divine technological component. Shadowhawk would be a mystic detective instead of using technology. Glen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Re: Alternate Earth Characters #5 Magi-Tech Earth It's like earth but magic is common and science is uncommon and/or forbidden knowledge. People use flying carpets instead of cars, crystal balls instead of phones, magic wands instead of guns; etc. Vitus would be experimenting with steampower and electricity. Because he's a totally contrary son-of-a-bitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataPacRat Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Re: Alternate Earth Characters #5 Mike the Demoness: Instead of being a rationalist-and-thus-atheist who got body-swapped with a magical creature of evil, he'd be a rationalist-and-thus-atechnologist who got body-swapped with, say, an android, a creature that's only supposed to exist in stories. Rubber Mousie: "Let me give you one piece of advice. If you ever find a bottle, about four feet high, that looks empty - never, ever open it, unless you want to get sucked inside and turned into Genie Cola. Those genies get /mad/ after being bottled up for a few millenia, and once they're freed, are only too happy to return the favour..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychonaut_raz Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Re: Alternate Earth Characters #5 Icestar gets her power from a magical artifact anyway, she wouldn't change at all.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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