Chaplain Rogers (Planet Mercenary)

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021Cat NerdTags Character Creation Challenge, Planet Mercenary, Tabletop RPGLeave a comment

Chaplain Rogers Gothar of the Old Norse gods, with a focus on Thor – who he is believed to have met in person at least once. The Chaplain largely serves as a battlefield negotiator. His silver tongue has solved problems a truckload of weapons couldn’t on several occasions. He’s a pacifist but will use violence… Read More »

Billy Goat (GURPS Autoduel)

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 6, 2021January 3, 2021Cat NerdTags Character Creation Challenge, GURPS, GURPS Autoduel, Tabletop RPG1 Comment

Billy Goat (25 points) Billy is a dreg living in the ruins of an abandoned city in Autoduel America. He lives the barest of hand-to-mouth existences, but he does manage to live. They call him Billy Goat because he can eat anything, no matter how revolting even by dreg standards. As written, he has just… Read More »

Lieutenant Menowin Vanslow (Star Trek Adventures)

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 5, 2021August 15, 2021Cat NerdTags Character Creation Challenge, Star Trek Adventures, Tabletop RPG1 Comment

Lieutenant Menowin Vanslow His combination of Engineering, Science and Security make him a skilled combat engineer and researcher. Combined with his open hatred of the Borg, his focus tends to be on how best to keep Borg under control. Of course, to him “under control” means “far, far away,” and is best achieved by keeping… Read More »

Lieutenant Jimbo (Planet Mercenary)

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 4, 2021January 1, 2021Cat NerdTags Character Creation Challenge, Planet Mercenary, Tabletop RPGLeave a comment

Lieutenant Jimbo, Operations Commander Jimbo is a grunt and has been his whole adult life. He joined the army when he was a kid, mustered out and joined a mercenary unit, and eventually got promoted. While Jimbo is lacking in the social graces, few commanders can hope for a better gunfighter. His gear costs 9… Read More »

Mister Chaos (GURPS)

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 3, 2021December 31, 2020Cat NerdTags Character Creation Challenge, GURPS, Tabletop RPG1 Comment

Mister Chaos (200 points) Former battle-mage who walked away after being left for dead. Now he wanders the world looking for fun and profit, leaving chaos and hilarity in his wake. Operationally, he’s a small-unit commander and ambusher. Ideally he dispatches a group of skeletons to distract foes while he provides fire support either with… Read More »

Herman Bentz (Call of Cthulhu)

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 2, 2021January 3, 2021Cat NerdTags Call of Cthulhu, Character Creation Challenge, Tabletop RPG1 Comment

Herman Bentz, Age 27, Agency Detective, former infantryman Herman Bentz was 18 in 1914 and joined the Army just in time to be shipped off to France. He spent three years in the trenches and survived with only a bit of PTSD largely triggered by loud noises and thunder – he was nearly killed by… Read More »

So I Got the Necromunda Vidgame

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021Cat NerdTags Necromunda, Tabletop RPG, Vidgames2 Comments

Isn't bad except for some absolutely infuriating stupidity on the part of the designers. Three examples: Loot doesn't carry over between missions that appear to be taking place hours or minutes apart. It doesn't bother to mention this, and it gives you enough things like medkits and grenades that it has the feel of a… Read More »

Thebe Severine (40K RPG)

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021Cat NerdTags 40K RPG, Character Creation Challenge, Tabletop RPG1 Comment

Thebe Severine Thebe originally hails from a backwater at the edge of the Calixis sector. She lived a boring life of endless filing and cross-checking until she witnessed a Slaaneshi cult ritual in progress. An Inquisition cell arrived moments after her and killed the lot of them before they could finish whatever they were up… Read More »

Character Creation Challenge

By Patrick MurphyPosted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021Cat NerdTags Character Creation Challenge, Tabletop RPGLeave a comment

This just looks like too much fun to pass up. It’s the Character Creation Challenge, wherein you create a character for a game you either play or want to play. Being me, I’m going to (in theory) be designing characters for seven (or six. Or eight) different games. Naturally, these four will be at the… Read More »

Goblin Math

By Patrick MurphyPosted on November 22, 2020December 23, 2021Cat NerdTags Tabletop RPGLeave a comment

I'm using Pathfinder 1e for the game stats. We're assuming four 3rd level fighters with +3 STR and DEX and +2 CON bonuses, which isn't uncommon using the "4d6 and drop the lowest" stat generation method. Breastplate gives a +6 to AC. Add +3 DEX bonus and you’re at +9. Add a heavy shield for… Read More »