Game of Thrones and Baldur's Gate - Who's who?
BelgarathMTH
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Hi, this thread is for having some fun, and discussing Game of Thrones characters as Baldur's Gate characters.
What race, class, and alignment are your favorite Game of Thrones characters? If you could start a BG:EE game with a custom party of six, and name all six of them as GoT characters, what would you pick, and why?
I think, just to get it started:
Tyrion Lannister - chaotic good dwarf rogue or rogue/fighter
Jamie Lannister - neutral evil human fighter
Cercei Lannister - neutral evil human sorceress, or rogue/mage
Katelyn Stark - lawful good human cleric
Rob Stark - lawful good human fighter
Jon Snow - lawful good human ranger>druid
other options:
Danaerys Targarean: chaotic good human dragon disciple
Kal Drogo - chaotic neutral human or half-orc barbarian
What race, class, and alignment are your favorite Game of Thrones characters? If you could start a BG:EE game with a custom party of six, and name all six of them as GoT characters, what would you pick, and why?
I think, just to get it started:
Tyrion Lannister - chaotic good dwarf rogue or rogue/fighter
Jamie Lannister - neutral evil human fighter
Cercei Lannister - neutral evil human sorceress, or rogue/mage
Katelyn Stark - lawful good human cleric
Rob Stark - lawful good human fighter
Jon Snow - lawful good human ranger>druid
other options:
Danaerys Targarean: chaotic good human dragon disciple
Kal Drogo - chaotic neutral human or half-orc barbarian
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Jaqen - True Neutral Assassin
Ed Stark - Lawful Neutral Fighter
Barristan - Lawful Neutral Fighter
Arya Stark - True Neutral Assassin
Melisandre - chaotic neutral cleric
The hound - neutral evil fighter
The mountain - lawful evil fighter
ramsay snow - chaotic evil thief
bran stark - true neutral druid
Perhaps Sandor Clegane can be argued chaotic neutral the more I think about it, and I have a hard time making Lady Stark lawful good with the way she treated Jon Snow in the books.
I see Bron as chaotic neutral and I see Tywin and Jofferey as solid neutral evils.
Jaime has been shifting from evil to neutral recently. i'd say he is chaotic neutral. chaotic because he doest respect his vows and laws.
Cersei might be lawful evil.
Jon Snow: Lawful/Neutral Good Ranger (Stalker)
Barristan the Bold: Lawful Neutral Cavalier (unfortunately that's not a valid class, so Lawful Good Cavalier or Lawful Neutral Fighter.)
Arya Stark: Chaotic Good (True Neutral?) Assassin.
Danaerys Targarean: Neutral Good Dragon Disciple (a class made for Targareans, even though Dany has a distaste for maegi). Maybe a Cleric?
Tyrion Lannister: We've been going back and forth on Tyrion. I think he would be best as a halfling bard, maybe a jester, but that's not a valid class. His strengths are his mind and cunning and I think that, if magic was as accessible in Westeros as it is in Faerun, he would eagerly study it. As he said: “My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge." His alignment his a whole different discussion, but I would make him Neutral Good. He's too faithful to his family to be Chaotic.
Other characters:
Robb Stark: Neutral Good Ranger
Bran Stark: True Neutral (Totemic) Druid
Khal Drogo: Chaotic Neutral Barbarian
Mance Rayder: Chaotic Neutral Skald
Renly Baratheon: Chaotic Good (Neutral?) Fighter
Brienne of Tarth: Lawful Good Cavalier
Syrio Forel: Neutral Good Swashbuckler or Lawful Good Kensai
"The Hound" Sandor Clegane: Lawful Neutral Fighter
Theon Greyjoy: Chaotic Neutral Fighter with Mastery in Long Bow
Melisandre: Lawful Good (in her POV, but more of a Lawful Neutral) Cleric
Davos Seaworth: Lawful Good Thief
Robert Baratheon: Chaotic Neutral Fighter Berserker with GM in War Hammers
Joffrey Baratheon: Chaotic Evil
Tywin Lannister: Lawful Evil
Cercei Lannister: Neutral Evil
Jamie Lannister: Lawful Neutral Fallen-Paladin. Regarding Jamie (big spoilers about the series following):
Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish: Neutral Evil Thief or Bard
Varys the Spider: True (Lawful?) Neutral Bard
Maester Aemon: Lawful Neutral Cleric/Mage
Maester Pycelle: Lawful Neutral Cleric
Maester Luwin: Lawful Good Cleric/Mage (as he's one of the few with a valyrian steel link)
Some odd-ones:
"Greatjon" Umber: Chaotic Good Barbarian
Marillion: Chaotic Neutral Bard
"Hot Pie": Chaotic Good Cleric (food can be considered healing, right?)
Rhaegar Targaryen: Neutral Good Bard (Blade) or Fighter/Mage/Thief.
Qhorin Halfhand: Lawful Neutral Stalker
Bron: Chaotic Neutral Fighter/Thief
"Dolorous" Edd: Chaotic Good Fighter? Ranger? I have no idea, I just know he's awesome.
"Ser Piggy" Samwell Tarly: Lawful Good Cleric
For the fans (Don't look them up if you don't know them!):
Areo Hotah: Kensai with GM in Halberds
Lady Stoneheart: Chaotic Neutral Cleric
Archmaester Marwyn: Cleric/Mage
…gods be good, I spend too much time thinking about these books!
Penny - Neutral good jester
Sansa - Lawful good commoner
Pyat Pree - Lawful evil sorcerer (favorite spell: mirror image)
Melisandre - Chaotic neutral cleric (favorite spell: summon shadow)
Bran Stark - True neutral druid (favorite spells: charm animal, charm person & farsight)
Factions:
The Others - neutral evil fighter/clerics (favorite spell: animate dead)
Wildlings - chaotic good/neutral barbarians or rangers?
Children of the forest - true neutral druids (or evils? Who knows...)
Dothraki - Chaotic neutral/evil barbarians
Favorite classes in different places:
Oldtown - cleric
Winterfell - fighter and ranger
Braavos - kensai and assassin
Vaes Dothrak - barbarian
Qarth - sorcerer and merchant (I guess this is more like a profession)
Shadowlands beyond Asshai - cleric/mage
King's Landing - Paladin
Lets imagine that these characters has levels also I'd put highest level in the realms for Ser Arthur Dayne: level 20 Paladin. Many considers that he was the greatest knight and fighter who ever lived. (he wielded carsomyr also :P )
I'm also kinda obsessed with these books........
Why couldn't a dwarf be, say, a skald. In fact, dwarven culture seems to be the very culture that is described under the skald character class - nordic warriors.
And halflings should make perfect bards. Their culture is based on home and hearth, good food and good stories told by a warm fire.
There's no reason why anybody of any race couldn't be a jester, if they had the personality and aptitude for it.
Jaime Lannister: Chaotic Neutral Fighter. In the real world he'd be considered a horrible person, but he doesn't fit the D&D definition of evil, which is completely lacking in shades of grey. Chaotic because he mostly acts on impulse. Many of those impulses are bad. A few are good.
Ned Stark: Lawful Good Fighter. One of the few "lawful good" characters in the series. Didn't do him much good.
Jon Snow: Neutral Good Ranger. Specialized in bastard swords of course.
Bran Stark: Neutral Good Druid.
Arya Stark: Chaotic Neutral Thief, maybe Assassin. Chaotic neutral because although she isn't evil, the little girl is definitely a sociopath. Can't blame her.
Joffrey: Chaotic Evil... too useless to be any class.
Melisandre: Chaotic Neutral Cleric
Davos: Neutral Good Thief
Gregor Clegane: Chaotic Evil Berserker
Sandor Clegane: Neutral Evil Fighter
Tywin: Lawful Evil Fighter
Bron: Neutral Evil Fighter
Barristan Selmy: Lawful Good Paladin
Syrio Forel: Neutral Good Fighter, maybe Kensai. Kensai doesn't make sense in terms of role-playing, but he is a master of his weapon.
Oberyn Martell: Chaotic Neutral Assassin immediately dual classed to Fighter. Fans of the books will know why.
Jaqen: True Neutral Assassin
Arthur Dayne: Lawful Good Cavalier. Carsomyr would be perfect for him
Robert Baratheon: Chaotic Neutral Fighter
Khal Drogo: Chaotic Neutral Barbarian. His alignment is a hard one, especially since we only see him through Dany's eyes. In many ways, he's a horrible human being, being the leader of a group that has the noble goal of raping and pillaging as much as possible. Still, like Jamie, he doesn't quite fit into the D&D definition of evil.
Strong Belwas: Chaotic Neutral Fighter, maybe Kensai. Definitely doesn't have the discipline of a Kensai, but his lack of armor fits it. Pips in scimitar of course.
Hodor: Hodor Hodor Hodor. Hodor Hodor Hodor. Hodor.
Hodor is a Lawful Good Fighter with 19 Str, 19 Con and a permanent Feeblemind spell.
Robert Baratheon is not CN he is just an alchoolic lawfull good, Renly Baratheon a fighter? I'm sure that if he wasn't a noble and could choose his path, he would have become a bard. As he is, he mostly is a mage without any spells to whom we gave some kind of military training. I didn't find Stannis anywhere, he would be a lawfull neutral fighter ( he might be rebelling against the king, but in his mind, he is the rightfull king, he is loyal to his brother the king and ned stark his Hand)
I agree on Renly, though: he's not much of a fighter, but I think it's the class that suits him best: a highly-charismatic crappy fighter. I see him as more of the person that would hire a bard to make songs about him than actually sing them himself.