Interesting Character Introductions

[Guest Soulcatcher]

I am wondering about the different interesting and perhaps unique character introductions that people have made in their campaigns, either as GM or player. I have an example from my own experience.

 

I decided to spice up the introduction to one of my own characters. My character had a standard introduction with a group of heroes that decided to form a Superhero Group. My character was a PI of the abnormal with enhanced capabilities. On our first mission, investigating suspicious activities, including the opening of a transdimensional gate, we ended up in a combat situation with a group escorting a tranquil prisoner with a collar.

 

We defeated the group and captured the unknown prisoner. My PI character was killed, just barely, by a .50 machinegun, at the height of the battle. The group was in shock at a death in the first session. They were unsure of the prisoner, a female of 16 years with a collar. She offered to help them if they would simply remove her collar. The heroes discussed it among themselves about whether they could trust her. She offered to try to help their comrade but that she could only do it if they freed her from the collar. The group decided to trust her as their only hope for their comrade, the PI.

 

Once freed, she went to the PI and studied him. Sadly, she told them there was only one thing that she could try to help someone who had risked all in saving her. At that instant, mystical energies emerged from her body and enveloped the PI. The PI's body was absorbed into hers. The Heroes were shocked and before they could react she changed into the PI and, thus, they were introduced to my complete character, Soulcatcher, a multiform, who could absorb the life essence of the recently deceased.

[Blue Jogger]

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Although I never got to run it, one player was going to play a character that had already been introduced into the party...

 

You see, this lesser known supervillian had been caught by the heroes.

 

But, because he turned state evidence against the real ultimate bad guy and actually quite helpful in catching him, got a lighter sentence.

 

That lighter sentence was community service.

 

But, because he had superpowers, there was really only one service he could do...

 

*Doorbell*

 

"Hi. I'm here by the state to fullfill my 2000 hours of community service."

 

(The Odd Couple theme starts to play)

[JMcL63]

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Well, I GM'd the introductory scenario from Golden Heroes with a bunch of students many years ago. I set the game in my home town, and staged the opening fight scene in the city square. One of the PC's was caught in the crossfire, hit by a stray bolt from an alien energy blaster, and had his origin there and then. That's about as interesting as I've managed to pull off.

[Hugh Neilson]

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Well' date=' I GM'd the introductory scenario from [i']Golden Heroes[/i] with a bunch of students many years ago. I set the game in my home town, and staged the opening fight scene in the city square. One of the PC's was caught in the crossfire, hit by a stray bolt from an alien energy blaster, and had his origin there and then. That's about as interesting as I've managed to pull off.

 

I used the Golden Heroes first module (Legacy of Eagles) and substituted a new character for the Eagles member who appears in the first part of the module (although the character's abilities weren't even close). That character is still in my Champions campaign, and the team still uses the Eagles' old base.

[steriaca]

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Well, there was the introduction of my charater Sunburn. The Avengers were looking for some good supers for there mid-west branch, so he teleported in. Unforcently, since this was the Marvel Universe, and Sunburn was just a teen, and could not affore a costume made of Unstable Molicules, he reapeared nude.

 

(The real reasion behind this is, well, I coulden't think up an aproprate costume at the time)

[Blue]

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I gave my players a rule when I started my campaign: If you want more than one character on the team I'm fine with that. But you'll only be able to play one at a time. This way they can get some variety over the course of a campaign, and guys who play only one hero will be higher level (because they always get experience).

 

Anyway, I show up at a game and a guy hands me a character sheet and says, "Here's my new character." No advanced notice really. So I look and it's basically a version of "Data" from Star Trek, only amnesiac and doesn't remember how he got there.

 

The story arc currently revolved around a time traveler who manipulated the current reality hundreds of years ago, and the coming of 1700 year old evil (A pope who did horrible things and who was expunged from all records of the church). So Ifive minutes after being handed the character and checking it for problems, I start the game off with an alert that a body was found in a nearby excavation site.

 

The team arrives and in the hole dug for the foundation they find an anemic looking but intact body. As they hover about it I have it's eyes open and tell the character to take over, with no clue as to how he got there or why. And that while he keeps perfect time, his chronometer is off by 1700 years and that his memory functions are damaged.

 

It was good improvisation and set up the following facts on the fly...

1. He was sent back in time to track down the Black Pope's remains.

2. He was injured in the temporal teleport around the damage centers and the power source.

3. He used his knowledge of future events to locate himself in the right place and then shut himself down to conserve power until an exact time 1700 years later when he would reawaken. He reset his chronometer as a means of telling himself something about how long he'd been buried there.

4. And I was able to instead of making an ancient book something written by the cardinals, I instead made it something written by him as a record of his pursuit of the Black Pope's remains.

 

Went pretty well. Of course, IMO, the character is still dull, but his background came out great

[Ghost who Walks]

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I used the Golden Heroes first module (Legacy of Eagles) and substituted a new character for the Eagles member who appears in the first part of the module (although the character's abilities weren't even close). That character is still in my Champions campaign' date=' and the team still uses the Eagles' old base.[/quote']

Dang, I used that module in one of our first sessions...oh the memories.

 

I had the government take over their old base however. It was a mistake on my part, I had all these cool 50's and 60's stuff in it. The team did swipe a firepole, as I recall.

 

So far as origin: Bulldozer is up for membership in the expansion team Eurostar is planning (based in North America). Bulldozer falls in love with a Russian Ice skater on tour in the USA, and kidnaps her. He then steals all the Eurostar funds (for the expansion team), and gives them to a unscrupulous chinese scientist to give her superpowers. Eurostar ends up without its money and expansion team, a new PC is introduced, Bulldozer goes to jail and later gets assigned to a military metahuman team by the government.

 

PC ends up with:

~Hunted by Eurostar (See her as their investment)

~Hunted by Chinese Scientist (Wants to continue the experiment with the test subject)

~Hunted by Russian Government (want her to return, so they can "study" what happened to her

~Rivalry with Bulldozer (Now on a government team and stil lsending her love letters)

 

As the campaign went on, that turned out to be a few to many hunteds. Its an example of origin defined by hunteds, I suppose.

[JMcL63]

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As a quick aside to the Golden Heroes nostalgia trip, I just thought I'd add the fact that Pete Haines is now working for GW on the 40K team. It warms my heart to see one of the 'old guard' back in the traces like that.

[Guest milton febles]

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My chraracter, Vibe was a member of Viper's Dragon Branch sent to infiltrate the new superhero team that was forming( the other PC's) and destroy it from within.(Viper Project Sigma-23155= "Herosbane"). it became predictable

: Vibe reformed, almost faced expulsion from the team when they learned the truth. He aslo developed a drinking problem kept secret,due the fact he killed his former viper control agent- his own brother,the supervillan Oculon.