This post is part of a series of answers to the Reverb Gamers 2012 blogging prompts (full list in PDF format here).

REVERB GAMERS 2012, #19: What’s the weirdest character you’ve ever played? How did you end up with him/her/it?

I haven’t really played any weird PCs. I like to play characters I can relate to… so they’re only a bit weird. As a GM I have played all manner of bizarre NPCs. Yesterday I played several three-foot tall slugs with many vestigial arms who worshipped the players in my hardcore sci-fi Wizard of Oz hack of Lady Blackbird that I made up over the last three days.

Before that I’ve played a shadow god who only spoke in lies and told the PCs that he was pleased to meet them and they could stay in his domain as long as they liked. I played a giant sandworm who spoke of “tremorssssss”. I played a forgetful old angel woman who kept forgetting Happy Days had finished. I played a rainbow roc who revived a PC with her tears, inducing a painterly dream in his mind. I’ve played as alternate universe doubles of the PCs from my Elemental Legends campaign, holding conversations with the real PCs. I also played the zealous undead NPC Paladin in that alternate universe.

I played an NPC reporter who was married to one of the PCs and in a flashback reminiscent of “The Hangover” he got pigeons and possums glued to his body, most dead but one pigeon was alive; after that he always kept it in his satchel bag and fed it. I’ve played as a dragon in human form who was obsessed with hats and was funding the end of the world. I’ve played a demon who wanted to be human and inhabited the PC for much of the game. I played as merchants who never spoke, but looked like pink dolphins standing upright with no tails or limbs, manipulating their wares with the black tendrils from the barnacles that covered their bodies.

I’ve played Stan who owned a tavern and comedy club called Stan’s Standup & Sit Down. I’ve played a possibly mad god who bathed in blood, trained an assassin and said “Hello, the panda!” for I can’t remember why. I’ve played a halfling who was addicted to the sense of near-death and so hired himself out as a poison tester in the slums. I’ve played sentient lobster messengers. I’ve played a time travelling stork mailman about to go postal. I’ve played a ravenous homunculus made from every bodily fluid and the severed private parts of murdered humans. Yeah… that’s the one. That was the weirdest one.

I had forgotten about him… *shudder* Being a GM I disturb even myself sometimes.

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