When rolling your latest EfU:A PC who did you have in the back of your mind as the inspiration for your creation?
For my current PC, Alousious Libriyen, it would have to be good old Grima Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings.
Most of my PC's are based on older NWN pc's. My Bard Katalyn is based on a previous bard, Lucia, who was based on Luna from Lunar Silver Star Story. Sofia Morales is based on Daciana Varzaru who was based on Griffith from Berserk.
Annabelle is based on...cockney?
Cockney and beer.
Mist was based on the tormented dreams of abused children I captured.
Spider Druid....Ooooo
James Byrdeye: Bond, James Bond. Last name a play on a char from a PSX game I used to play when I was younger
Gloin Mithrilaxe: Gloin, Father of Gimli, namewise. Conceptwise, a Dwarven Guardian from Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II (Guardians are mainline dwarf infantry). I threw some Gimli in there as well.
Rob Darkspell: Robin Hood was a guy I had in mind... unfortunetly, it was hard to show his skill with archery mechanically due to my lousy build skills at the time :P
Not an EfU character, but one I enjoyed playing him:
Thomas Carrinson (Rogue/Shadowdancer). I think, once I really fleshed him out (origonally he was sort of a 'throw' character), I put some Ammon Jerro (NWN 2) and Manticore (City of Heroes/Villians) into him. Fights evil with what it understands best... and doesn't expect from the good guys.
I wanna make a chracter based off scarface. If only the server was in spanish... then i could really have a PC talk with style! English is so restricted in what insults concern....
My current character drew inspiration from Lovecraftian Horror. Slime, tentacles, an academic / scholarly individual sucked into a situation in which they find themselves both helpless and hopeless, unanswered questions, insanity, and the inability to cope with ones own insignificance in the universe.
It's all there wrapped in a neat little package that calls herself Pelandri / Mactl'ysha.
Windbag is based on his portrait. I saw a gruff and ugly old guy, who could've been a priest of Kossuth or Grumbar. So I figured, what the hell, let's do the opposite and play an idealistic priest of Akadi.
And Nietzsche, too. Because every pseudo-intellectual hipster must have a Nietzsche reference in whatever he does. For Windbag, it's the whole "man is something to be overcome" deal.
Interesting thread.
Raymon Coolidge is based off of Clint Eastwood's (odd, considering his portrait, I know) characters in many ways-- from his earlier Western movies to his more recent work, Gran Torino. All of them mesh together in an odd way. Of course, this is only very loose like most of my characters.
My current PC is loosely based on Ford Prefect.
Magon Barcide was originally based in Magon Barca.
There is a hero on HoMM3 called Adeline, who is casually a fire witch.
Zodara Gongor is based on the early eighties movies about barbarians. Like Conan the barbarian and Deathstalker. Basicly these movies was about big strong men in loincloth, chicks in chainmail bikinis, boobs and alot of swordfights.
http://www.kevinhiggins.org/000128.html
Numbers 2, 21, 43, 99 and 129.
All of my characters are based on the terminator.
Horst was based on swedish vikings, big, blonde, cut your face in half with an axe, vikings.
Edward Harker = Lord Derfel: Warlord Chronicles.
chang dohg'zhu was based on panda express and my mom
really
Jimminy Fishes was based loosely on the Hero of Canton, a Man they call Jayne.
my chars are based on nothing till they reach lvl 8
Whenever I am looking for a concept, I grab myself a 26 of premium canadian whiskey, something to smoke, and just set my music player on random and base a character off of lyrics from one of the first three or so songs, or a mix of them.
Quote from: Garem;176790Interesting thread.
Raymon Coolidge is based off of Clint Eastwood's (odd, considering his portrait, I know) characters in many ways-- from his earlier Western movies to his more recent work, Gran Torino. All of them mesh together in an odd way. Of course, this is only very loose like most of my characters.
Totally get a Clint Eastwood vibe from him.
Albert Gull is based on the recently deceased South African nazi Eugene Terre'blanche. Rest in peace.
Love the topical connection Gull. Will Gull also fall off his horse with hilarious timing, making a complete arse of himself?
Carson = Black Whirlwind. Almost to the letter.
Caine is based on a mix of the berserker from borderlands and The Heavy Weapons Master on team fortress 2.
Carribean born privateer and pirate.
Magnus Eberhardt is based upon Darth Vader.
I've got this strange thing I do, which is coming up with my own characters.
Not really based on him but Querain has been described as "Wash with a greataxe."
I made my wereboar "Kushnak" after Precious and Oprah Winfrey.
Freddie Jorino looks like Wesley from the princess bride. Darker hair though, and don't you forget it!
Ferdinand Maximillian was a combination of the first emperor of Mexico (Seemed fitting since he was Austrian and went to an arid place), and Ernst Röhm, a famous Nazi from prior to the 2nd world war.
Dom Pedro is based off of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil, except for the fact that the original Dom Pedro was from Portugal.
Vaska (AKA: DeMasa) is based loosely on Silas from the DaVinci Code. Just with a bit more sadism and less god.
Marc Arnoldson was based after...you guessed it...Jesus.
Grommet was based after my friends kobold slave in a PnP drow campaign, he apparently sat in the back and stole spellbooks from our wizard in secret until he ended up surprising us and nuking the shit out of a demon.
Vernon Farwood
I've based my character's personality on Elwood Blues from the Blues Brothers, all wrapped up into the body minus the pegleg of Captain Barbosa from Pirates of the Carribean.
Rhydoc was based on my souls yearning for bullshit and assholery...
I must be a great roleplayer.
I few of my characters have been inspired massively by one idea or character, but mostly I go with "I bet this personalty/build would be fun to play" and bolt on the rest.
Waldo Vickle: An attempt to disprove the line "Polka gnomes exist only in my imagination"
Ahmed Kaliwazah: Brian the Necromancer from Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire.
Danny Crane: The Cat from Red Dwarf, with a Katana.
Marius is Stryker (//%22http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Wide-EyedIdealist?from=Main.WideEyedIdealist%22) from Desert Punk (//%22http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/DesertPunk%22).
I base my characters off of LiS.
My lastest pc Davidov Vauduriel is based somewhat off Warden Donald Morgan from the Dresden Files.
Arisa is definitely based on Christina Hendricks, lol. She is just an incredible actress and an amazing person. Love that she makes her body her own and doesn't care what anyone else thinks. The beauty of her soul is the real inspiration for my character, not simply her face or figure.
<3 you 4ever, Christina. You keep going, girl!
Amazing troll.
Quote from: The Ruins of Third Earth;190537Marius is Stryker (//%22http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Wide-EyedIdealist?from=Main.WideEyedIdealist%22) from Desert Punk (//%22http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/DesertPunk%22).
And Iiiiiiiii helped. :D
All of my characters are based off of anime that I have seen recently. Generally I base the personality off the first few episodes. Then once I've finished the series, I lose interest in the character and quit.
Seriously. Pick any character.
If you make one based on the webcomic you got your avatar and quote from, I think half the players will kill you on principle, LTS :P.
Quote from: DollarPhil;192449If you make one based on the webcomic you got your avatar and quote from, I think half the players will kill you on principle, LTS :P.
I will build a labyrinth to house the principle.