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Written by mhd on 2025-01-13 at 14:02

What's your favorite sample character from a #ttrpg core book?

Mine is Cormac the Pict, from the third edition of RuneQuest. He's consistently used throughout the books, so he starts out lowly, gets captured and trained to a high degree for arena games, and later gets sucked dry by an evil spirit only to learn magic from the Shaman who saved him there.

(Regarding names alone, I think early GURPS had "Filthy Pierre"...)

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Written by AndreasDavour on 2025-01-13 at 14:07

@mhd Really? I wonder if Steve had met the legendary sf fan known by that moniker.

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Written by mhd on 2025-01-13 at 14:19

@AndreasDavour A quick googling gives no results. Where did he get that from, maybe some common source? (apparently there's a cartoon character called Dirty Pierre)

There's also a real-world example of his combat example opponent, "Louis LeBlanc", but he seems to be born after that example was published...

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Written by AndreasDavour on 2025-01-13 at 19:41

@mhd there's a guy called that who had been around all the science fiction conventions since forever, and he has like Steve been politically active, and I know Steve visit conventions. But, maybe it's totally unrelated.

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Written by Artikid on 2025-01-13 at 14:34

@mhd thinking of Shadowrun first edition I loved the iconic characters on the Larry Elmore cover and in the fiction (Ghost, Sally and Dodger) who where clearly referencing some of the pregen templates inside the game (Corporate Mage, Street Samurai and Elven Decker)

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