Watchman Mk. IV Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Simon Templar. I also wanted to make an Emma Peel character but never quite got around to it. Oh...and Doctor Who. Also, although not a character, you never know when you might cruise down the street and pass a "Argument Clinic,' 'Cheese Shoppe,' or 'Llap Goch' sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clnicholsusa Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Base is a good word, let's say I 'based' these NPC's on television characters. I started a campaign as "street level", but it lasted long enough to outgrow that. This campaign included, at various times: The gang of thieves using code names Top Cat, Benny the Ball, Choo Choo, Brain, Fancy-Fancy, and Spook. The medical examiner, Dr. Quincy, who was always crusading about some social issue. The Wonder Dog and his hench-people, Wendy and Marvin. A group of villainous aliens that finished out the campaign included Zok, Igoo, Tundro, Gloop, and Gleep. Yeah, those characters were 'based on' television characters, yeah, let's call it that. Christopher R Taylor, Hermit, Cancer and 2 others 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Oh, if you want direct rips, well, to make a long story short, a friend is very bummed about real world events in the political sector. So to cheer her up, I ran her with a solo superhero thing where I had tweaked something about the universe by direct insert of a TV show she had only now seen but was really enjoying... Her superheroine saves the day, wakes up in a top secret hospital, hears two voices talking about how she's great for the program, or is she? then...the President of the United States enters the room, shakes her hand and introduces himself "I'm President Jed Bartlet, and I'd like you consider joining a program I'm restarting and improving for a superhero team under the auspices of the Executive Branch." In short, in the gaming world I dropped her in, the West Wing TV show crew is currently in charge. Doc Shadow, Matt the Bruins, tkdguy and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Shadow Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Hermit, I would love to play in that campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funk Thompson Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 Pretty much every Monk I play is based on Ichi - that's Zatoichi of the Blind Swordsman series. Not that I make blind monks, just that I base their personality and demeanor on Ichi's. Kind of one part bumbling idiot, one part idiot-savant, one part a man kind and wise beyond his years. I'd actually love to try to do the actual "Blind Swordsman" thing in an RPG, but it is actually harder to pull off than it looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
"V" Posted June 17, 2018 Report Share Posted June 17, 2018 I'm currently running a Blades in the Dark game, and of the baked into the setting gang bosses, Baszo Baz, always comes out like Alfie Solomons from Peaky Blinders. Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 Not a TV show, but I recently wrote up a paladin... with the personality of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Only more condescending. He means well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 On 1/9/2018 at 8:54 PM, Cassandra said: Liberty was inspired by Denise "Jo" Mahoney from Scrubs. She was a competent doctor but had a problem with relating to her patients. I loved that she was the one resident Dr. Cox wouldn't mess with, apparently because he could see how little it would take to make her snap and go on a murder spree. None of my HERO characters are based on a TV character, but I made an NPC as part of a team thought experiment who was basically Joel Grey's Chiun from Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. Cassandra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 21, 2018 Report Share Posted July 21, 2018 Not a TV character, but I ran a game in which Project Icarus from the film Suspect Zero was real and the player hero's were a classified unit of FBI agents who worked with the "remote viewers" amidst a deep state civil war that had a balkanized host of competing black projects and interest groups that drew liberally on down-the-rabbit-hole conspiracy theories from the real world and fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted July 21, 2018 Report Share Posted July 21, 2018 On 11/13/2017 at 2:01 AM, Lucius said: I once based a fantasy ranger character on Ranger Gord from the Red Green Show. Lucius Alexander I often base a tagline on a palindromedary To give you an idea of the character - one scene in the show had Ranger Gord lying on the ground talking about how he never gets bored out in the woods all by himself because he can always play the old children's game of finding shapes in the clouds. He describes the things he sees in the cloud shapes. Then the camera pans up and we see a clear blue sky with no clouds. Red Green says in a voice over "Ranger Gord doesn't have his head in the clouds. He has clouds in his head." Lucius Alexander I have palindromedaries in my taglines tkdguy and Armory 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 I cannot recall his name, but you all know him: an Asian American actor who was maybe fifty forty years ago and is maybe sixty today. He's been in damned near everything, from M*A*S*H to Big Trouble in Little China, and was the voice of Po's adopted father (the Goose) in the Kung Fu Panda movies. Any time I need an endearing yet irritating-as-hell just slightly deranged NPC, no matter where it starts, it ends up as him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted September 12, 2018 Report Share Posted September 12, 2018 James Hong! Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted September 12, 2018 Report Share Posted September 12, 2018 Yeah, he was great until Ingko had Wu shoot through him. Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted November 1, 2018 Report Share Posted November 1, 2018 I based a character I played in a Champions game on Hugo from LOST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted November 1, 2018 Report Share Posted November 1, 2018 I based a mage in One of Doug Garrett's Fantasy Hero campaigns, on Dr. Zin from Johnny Quest (complete with the voice, as I am a passable mimic). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted November 1, 2018 Report Share Posted November 1, 2018 Constable Benton Fraser, played by Paul Gross, on Due South. Cassandra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 2, 2018 Report Share Posted November 2, 2018 6 hours ago, mattingly said: Constable Benton Fraser, played by Paul Gross, on Due South. A major inspiration for "The Constable," an NPC hero from Scott Bennie's Champions Of The North. To the point that he often bears the nickname, "Dewey South." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 Don't have any at the moment; I probably use books more than TV, too. And there's something of a serendipity factor...you need the TV character concept and the campaign to dovetail. Had one great situation like this...a Vampire game where coldly calculating and incredibly efficient made sense. The character's style was based on Michael from La Femme Nikita...which also tells ya how long ago that was....:( I've also taken inspiration from a song. Vampire again. The song: Charlie Daniel's Still in Saigon. Good song, good story. PERFECT for a creepy Malkavian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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