Tal_Akaan
2011-04-05, 11:34 AM
So I recently got the opportunity to play Gamma World, instead of running the games like I had been doing. Creating my character was an interesting experience, so I thought I would come here and tell everyone about it, as well as to hopefully hear about your characters as well.
Like the book says I started off rolling my origins and went from there:
First, speedster, after reading the origin I was pretty excited, I really liked the extra movement, and the utility power. I was instantly filled with ideas of a cocky Flash type character, or maybe a martial artist, but I had to tell myself not to settle on anything because I had no idea what my second origin would be.
Second, alien. Instantly loved the at-will, and the utility. I was a little disappointed that its key stat was INT seeing as how speedster is DEX, I figured I was going to fall short in other areas of the game because my other stats would rely on my dice rolls. Still not wanted to settle on a concept before I finished rolling up the character I moved on to stats.
I’m away from my character sheet right now, but I was very happy with my stats. I fortunately ended up with no negative modifiers, and a sixteen in my STR, personally would have rather had that 16 in my CON, but that’s how the dice fell.
Before picking my weapons and armor, I went ahead and rolled for my starting gear, nothing really special here, other than the motorcycle I rolled up.
When I decided to pick my armor and weapons I knew at this point I had to settle on a concept. I had so many ideas, but they all seemed so boring or obvious. Then I got the idea of a character surrounded by all this gamma world technology, but utilizes older weaponry, and that’s when it all came together.
An old west gunslinger. He wields dual 1860 colt army revolvers (mechanically no different than only using one, but I like the look of 2) and a Quigley Sharps rifle. Yes the same one used in Quigley Down Under, if you have seen the movie.
After all was said and done I needed a name and a melee weapon, and that’s when it hit me…
…D*mn it! I just created Cad Bane from the Clone Wars show. I loved this character and sense I didn’t set out to copy a character I decided to roll with it…
…Melee weapon—“Energy Sword”
So I had created Clayton Murdock.
This ended up being much longer than I anticipated, but if anyone wants to tell me about your characters whether creation or otherwise I’d like to hear about them.
Like the book says I started off rolling my origins and went from there:
First, speedster, after reading the origin I was pretty excited, I really liked the extra movement, and the utility power. I was instantly filled with ideas of a cocky Flash type character, or maybe a martial artist, but I had to tell myself not to settle on anything because I had no idea what my second origin would be.
Second, alien. Instantly loved the at-will, and the utility. I was a little disappointed that its key stat was INT seeing as how speedster is DEX, I figured I was going to fall short in other areas of the game because my other stats would rely on my dice rolls. Still not wanted to settle on a concept before I finished rolling up the character I moved on to stats.
I’m away from my character sheet right now, but I was very happy with my stats. I fortunately ended up with no negative modifiers, and a sixteen in my STR, personally would have rather had that 16 in my CON, but that’s how the dice fell.
Before picking my weapons and armor, I went ahead and rolled for my starting gear, nothing really special here, other than the motorcycle I rolled up.
When I decided to pick my armor and weapons I knew at this point I had to settle on a concept. I had so many ideas, but they all seemed so boring or obvious. Then I got the idea of a character surrounded by all this gamma world technology, but utilizes older weaponry, and that’s when it all came together.
An old west gunslinger. He wields dual 1860 colt army revolvers (mechanically no different than only using one, but I like the look of 2) and a Quigley Sharps rifle. Yes the same one used in Quigley Down Under, if you have seen the movie.
After all was said and done I needed a name and a melee weapon, and that’s when it hit me…
…D*mn it! I just created Cad Bane from the Clone Wars show. I loved this character and sense I didn’t set out to copy a character I decided to roll with it…
…Melee weapon—“Energy Sword”
So I had created Clayton Murdock.
This ended up being much longer than I anticipated, but if anyone wants to tell me about your characters whether creation or otherwise I’d like to hear about them.