Other People's Memorable Characters

In my ongoing tribute to the half of my life that I've spent roleplaying, here's some of the most entertaining and memorable characters that people have played while I GMed. This list is MUCH longer than the list of characters that I've played as I have spent far more time running games than playing them. All characters are made and played with Gurps unless otherwise noted. Without further ado...

Shakura: A female human mercenary with some magic at her disposal. She is tall, blonde and strong. She showed a viscious streak early on and has killed more enemies than everyone in the group combined. Her magic spells are minimal and she has never relied on them. Her weapons of choice was her sword, a non-descript piece of servicable metal and an Elven War Glaive that she discovered during her travels.

One of her more interesting aspects was her love interest, a young silver dragon who had polymorphed himself into a silver haired elf named Gabriel and traveled with the group so that he could experience the human culture. Shakura and Gabriel fell in love over the course of a dozen adventures.

They culminated their love the night before the final battle offshore of a hidden elven island. The next day Shakura and Gabriel, in dragon form, fought the Dark General of the Demon Army and his Ancient red dragon Fiammanticasulbordo di'uscire (Antica).

The battle was viscious and Gabriel lost his life. But they killed Antica and, maybe, the Dark General as well.

Shakura became pregnant from her one night with Gabriel and she has since retired to raise their child in peace.


"Gabriel, get out of there!"



Atlantis: A female human noble woman from a minor house. She was short and attractive, with long blonde hair and porceline skin. She studied alongside Shakura under the tutaledge of the Sorceress in Silver, Lady Sliverymoon.

Atlanta was naive but extremely intelligent and excelled at magical studies. She travelled with Shakura and they shared many adventures during which Atlantis helped rescue a princess and rewarded with lands far outstripping that of her family.

She also unwittingly helped a vampire named Tievel unlock the gate that allowed a demon army into the world.

Atlantis fought her way across the continent and reported to the Emporer that a demon army was marching on his empire. Unfortunately, she also let him know that she had helped unleash this army on his empre.

She is assumed to have been killed.


"They can't hurt me, I'm an innocent!"


Sabine: A female human mage. Short and cute, with shoulder length brown hair. She was a mage, scholar, and healer of some note and had spent the entirety of her life in schools of various sorts. She is extremely intelligence and a very skilled mage and healer.

She was extremely memorable because of the fact that she was a complete and utter coward, which allowed me to mess with her. Early on in the game I had an agent for an unknown entity hire her (through sheer intimidation) to spy on the leader of the caravan that the characters had just been hired on and to report any unusual activity on pain of death.

Of course this meant that she told their enemies in advance every mission that the players went on. None of the other players could figure out how their enemies kept finding them! It was great!
One interesting little anecdote is the test that Sabine had to pass to get hired on with the caravan. She informed Tsorvano, the second in command of the caravan, that she was a physician and could people of injury and illness using means mundane and magic.

He asked her if there was anything that she couldn't heal and she told him death.

So he disemboweled her with a knife and told her to heal herself.

After some agonizing effort and much frantic rolling of dice, she was able to do so. She was immediately hired on as one of the highest paid people in the caravan. Ah... good times...


"Ca-caa! I'm a bird, I'm a bird!"



Malakai Jones: This is the name that Charles has used more times than I can remember. Of all of his characters, he has two that are truly distinctive. I'll try to seperate them a bit, but I honestly can't remember their names.

First is a male human rascal. We'll call him Ed. Ed grew up in the lawlessness of Ten Towns and can't really be classified using the D&D system of fighter, mage, thief, etc. He was mostly a fighter, so we'll go with that.

Ed made his living mugging people, running messages, thug work, and anything else he could do. He discovered an advancing army of humanoid creatures marching from the moutains, across the frozen tundra, and into Ten Towns.

During the short-lived war, he managed to single-handedly killed the Demon General of this army and the insane mage who had enthralled all of these humanoids into serving him.

As a reward he was made a member of the Dwarven Nation and allowed to start his own clan. He was also sent to the Southlands to find other Dwarves to supplement this colony as too many of the Dwarves had died in the battle to conitue living here. They didn't reproduce fast enough and would die off within the next couple of generations.

Ed travelled most of the length of the continent. Along the way he found the Dwarves that he was looking for and convinced them to help the Northernmost Nation, he had his leg tore up and turn gimpy, and he met and fall in love with a woman from the caravan who he later rescued from pirates and married.

He is now living back in Ten Towns wife his wife, her brother, and their three kids in an inn that they own that the Dwarves built for him. Nice...

"That mage was a pussy..."


Next is a Minotuar that I'll call Crump. Crump was made using D&D 2nd Ed. and maxed out on his strength and constitution. Because of his strength and size,Crump was able to use a two-handed sword in one hand. He fought with two of them. He was also able to regenerate damage because his constitution was so high.

Yes, Charles is the most munchkin player that I've ever known.

This minotuar only played in one session and didn't survive that. But the battle underground in a massavie chamber of an ancient abandoned Dwarven city over-run with evil dwarves with giants as shock trrops in which he died was awe inspiring and truly epic. Thus he is remembered.

"That's crap! I get the Dwarves to resurect him!"

"Dude, they can't. Even if they could ressurect someone, your character was crushed by several tons of rocks. There's nothing left but goo."

"Well, I have them dig him out and bag him. I'll go search for someone who can ressurect him!"



My friend Dan had a couple of great characters. Unfortunately, that was eight years ago and I can't remember their names. The first one was a human male from a small town who fled and army of trollocs with two of his friends. I'll call this character Crip.

Crip was always getting messed up, but always did whatever needed to be done. He lost a foot to a black dragon that he killed by blowing up barrels of Dwarven Spirits under the dragon's chest, knocking the drogan unconcious and off the ledge that he was gripping. The dragon fell over a thousand feet to his death.

Crip did this after losing his foot.

Crip also killed the evil sorceror, and was blinded doing it.

He regained some vision through a magical eyeball that another PC put in, after first cutting out the old eye.

Left to plunder a magical storehouse, Crip accidently turned himself into an (ugly) woman. He then stepped through a magical doorway and ended up a foreign sorceror's prisoner. He escaped and offered two men the use of his body if they would guide him back to the city that he was from.

He tried to renege on the deal once they got him to a main road and they ended up raping him several times as "payment". Crip did escape the men and made it back to the city, but the damage had already been done. He was pregnant.

The mage with them told him how to reverse the gender bending cloak that he had put on but informed Crip that doing so would kill the child that was growing inside of him which might have... unpleasant side effects... in a man's body.

So Crip bore a nice healthy boy, breast fed him, and gave him to an order of Shoalin Monks. That baby would become his next character.

"Dude, this sucks..."



Dan's next character I'll call Fu. Fu was the son of Dan's Gender confused character Crip. Unlike Dan or Crip, Fu was extremely polite, law abiding, gentle, and celibate. He tried to never use his martial arts, even when directly attacked! He once refused to escape from prison with the other characters because it was against the law even though they had been falsely imprisoned in the first place. They had to knock him out and carry him to freedom.

When he woke, he wanted to go back and turn himself in but they wouldn't tell him which direction to go. They were also to smart to ride directly away from the city...

"Wise man say, He who stands on toilet is high on pot."

I'll think of more later, that's enough for now.