Rush of Re-Gaming

[Judging__Eagle]

I've gotten back into the swing of gaming after a self-imposed hiatus (I wanted to have at least 1+ play test games of my own setting before playing any other rpgs with any real depth).

In one of my home group's campaigns, the players are rolling in with level 12 PCs. In an other at around level 5-7.

Finally there's a Wheel of Time game we're kicking off to see how it works out at level 1 (only 2/3 of us are crazy man witches, the 3rd is a dual-wielding forester; this is a group that is all Tomeified, but we're using strictly the WoT book alone for this; the DM is throwing us bonus feats, because that's pretty much how the characters from the book are statted out).

For the WoT game, myself and the other "usually plays a caster" player have decided we're both playing "Crazy man mages" from the WoT setting; he's having his character be from the Dark Tower (also firmly establishing the chronology of the setting as after the Dark Towers have been set up).

The few saving graces of this game are that 1) myself and the GM both know the books up till about where they're currently printed (although I may be short a book or two?); so we can fill in the setting for the rest of the table; also 2) we're relatively able to plan things out as a group, and my wilder mage and his initiate mage are able to teach each other spells (weaves; right now he's got the powers to "tie off" or basically persist a spell effect, and some other things; I'm not really sure where I'm going to throw my own feats towards; possibly widening my spell access).

My own character, I'm playing them as a crazy old druid who thinks he's a fishman in order to bypass the horrible madness rules that male spellcasters are saddled with. My reasoning is "if I need to be crazy? I'm going to go beyond fishmalk on my character".

Which I guess goes off and creates its own fallacy on rule design:

"No game system that imposes madness on a Player Character, cannot be obviated by the Player making the Player Character act in a more mad manner than the setting supposes."

My character is

-Raised by Ogiers (which explains their Druidish elements, long life and start weaves focused on healing [OMFG! I hate WoT healing; turning lethal damage into subdual damage is pretty good, but it means that you can't expect or pull off D&D shenanigans at all; and all players and the DM need to realize that; fortunatly, our DM has talked about this to us before we even started making characters])
--Claims to have been "Raised by Owlbears" (an in-joke referencing Frank & K's "backgrounds" section); that conveiniently sounds similar to Ogiers that other people may not even realize the difference. Also, the WoT setting doesn't have Owlbears; or even most D&D kitchensink stuff

-Chopped apart a dying Myrdral (or w/e the fsck the grey, faceless, evil lieutenant-types that lead the Trollocs are called); and took its sword; the group dragged the body back to home where it blew up at nightfall. It had been dragged by a rope because we knew that's what happens to Myrdral that die.
--Will forever claim to be a Myrdral-butcher (while technically true, is patently false, watching the entire company of troops (~80) they were with (along with the other 2 PCs) butchered by a Fist of Trollocs (~100) and their Myrdral lieutenant probably helped push them over the edge; I'll be playing them like a post-trauma stress survivor.

-Was attacked by human bandits on the way back to report about all of these Trollocs; also the now lost captain and the company that was lost.
--Is now deranged, and believes that the humans that work against them are Darkfriends (this settings equivalent of Nazis, if Nazi Germany was the Earth equivalent of the Chaos Wastes, and was an active and still felt threat)

So, a paranoid, strange talking, combat survivor; who claims to be a fish, not a man; and will try and raise an army out of humans that they defeat (except the other PCs executed the bandits >( ). I might even have my character claim that they are "A Dragon Returned" (but not "The Dragon Reborn"), and use their healing and blasting magic to convince bandits to work for him. Alternately, get Command/Leadership feats and start a fish papacy, and maybe some heavy industry to help drive out all of the invaders from everywhere.




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Other things to make:

A level 5 or 7 PC; I think I'll pull out my 1st Tome character, a Barbarian combat sneak.

A level 12 PC; holy crap, the field is wide with something like this.

This group is Evil; we're looking at a Conduit/Witch Queen; a Cleric/Something/Pumpkin King; a Fighter (with Wiz Cohort).

I'm considering making.... oh, I'm so vile. I'll create megatron

Construct/Golem Bard 5-9/Something 1-5/Master of Cybertron Snake Mountain
With a bunch of Warforged cohorts; level 10 Fighters (Constructicons); Soulborn (Starscream & Jet fighters); Rogues (???). Potentially even a Bard with a pile of Cohort feats named Soundwave, with Mini warforged cohorts that pop out of a chest mounted bag of holding.

The other option is an atlantean (more catfish/shark than human) Thaumaturge that gets Stranger with the Burning Eyes, and has either MoSM, or just a single Cohort (poss. a RoW fighter, but Soulborn and Soldier are both awesome).

[Shrapnel]

If you make Megatron, then I and my compatriots will have an off-again, on-again relationship where you will use me for various dirty jobs and I will try and destroy you by absorbing energy or some such.

And then in 2005 I'll work for you for real and get run over by Kup and Daniel.

[Darth Rabbitt]

Perhaps more practical for your needs than what my friend's saying here is what he started in another thread where he asked for help making a Decepticon in D&D.