IWD characters
Buttercheese
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So based on the thing below, I thought it would be a nice idea for everyone to share the characters and their background stories you came up with based on the portraits that are available in IWD and IWD2.
Basically, your headcanons for each portrait.
Here are all the portraits:
Males:
Females:
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Alright, I'll make the start.
Here is my party from IWD2 (for my other playthroughs I used custom portraits).
Name: Ribert van Gorgen
Race: Human
Class: Paladin of Helm
Alignment: Lawful Good
Age: 47
Personality: Honorable, kind, stubborn, a bit naive, overly optimistic, keen, sometimes reckless, likable, not the smartest, sometimes sad about his age and that he is not as athletic as he used to be, very religious, dutiful
Bio: Ribert grew up in Neverwinter, as a member of a lower royal family. He knew soon that he wanted to be a Paladin and so he joined the local order of Helm. When he was in his mid twenties, he married a woman of the same noble class, with which he had two daughters, Anar and Mara. About ten years ago, he left his order and moved with his family to Luskan, in hopes that he could bring some justice into the sinfilled town.
Name: Anar van Gorgen
Race: Human
Class: Fighter
Alignment: Neutral Good
Age: 23
Personality: laid back, practical, stubborn, rough, snarky
Bio: Anar was a teenager when her family moved to Luskan, where she quickly slipped into the darker sides of the town, much to her parent's dismay. After a few rebellious years, she got back in line again and joined the city guard, where she was trained as a fighter. Unlike the rest of her family, she is not overly religious.
Name: Martin Jorgson
Race: Human
Class: Ranger
Alignment: Neutral Good
Age: 21
Personality: silent, introvert, doesn't like crowds, practical
Bio: Martin grew up in a village near Luskan and was trained as a gatekeeper. The others don't know much about him because he mainly keeps to himself. He does seem to follow Anar around, though.
Name: Mara van Gorgen
Race: Human
Class: Cleric of Helm
Alignment: Lawful Good
Age: 18
Personality: Stubborn, serious, keen, dutiful, strong sense for justice, not a good sense of humor, leery
Bio: Unlike her older sister, Mara never fell in with shady figures of Luskan. She began to despise the city very early, which led to her wanting to step into her father's footsteps. However, she wasn't cut out to be a warrior like her dad and sister, so she decided to become a cleric instead.
Name: Ricardo Emere
Race: Lightfoot Halfling
Class: Rogue
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Age: 32
Personality: Quick, self proclaimed lady's man, kleptomaniac, troublemaker, good actor
Bio: Ricardo originally hails from Athkatla. His parents where terrible which lead to him becoming a streetrat. He likes women a lot and it's his hobby to woo them (sometimes more successful than other times). He travels a lot, mostly to escape the cityguard and husbands of the places he has been too. One day it took him to Luskan where he made the mistake to break into the van Gorgen estate. Ribert caught him and the two made a deal, that Ricardo would have to be Ribert's servant and help him to fight for justice in exchange for not handing him over to the guards. The two actually became friends and now Ricardo follows the paladin out of his own will. Though it looks a lot like he only sticks around to be close to Ribert's daughters ....
Name: Gabaldras Regites
Race: Sunelf
Class: Mage
Alignment: Neutral good
Age: 219
Personality: Kind, patient, eloquent, curious, smart, wise, likes children, likes teaching, a bit of an airhead
Bio: Gabaldras originally hails from Evermeet but he was soon get the travel bug and moved to the mainland where he became an instructor at the wizard's academy. There he met the back then only seven year old Ribert's mother, who herself was a teacher at the academy. They became friends and Gabaldras became like an uncle to Ribert. Many years later, when Ribert himself became a father, he became Anar's and Maya's godfather.
Basically, your headcanons for each portrait.
Here are all the portraits:
Males:
Females:
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Alright, I'll make the start.
Here is my party from IWD2 (for my other playthroughs I used custom portraits).
Name: Ribert van Gorgen
Race: Human
Class: Paladin of Helm
Alignment: Lawful Good
Age: 47
Personality: Honorable, kind, stubborn, a bit naive, overly optimistic, keen, sometimes reckless, likable, not the smartest, sometimes sad about his age and that he is not as athletic as he used to be, very religious, dutiful
Bio: Ribert grew up in Neverwinter, as a member of a lower royal family. He knew soon that he wanted to be a Paladin and so he joined the local order of Helm. When he was in his mid twenties, he married a woman of the same noble class, with which he had two daughters, Anar and Mara. About ten years ago, he left his order and moved with his family to Luskan, in hopes that he could bring some justice into the sinfilled town.
Name: Anar van Gorgen
Race: Human
Class: Fighter
Alignment: Neutral Good
Age: 23
Personality: laid back, practical, stubborn, rough, snarky
Bio: Anar was a teenager when her family moved to Luskan, where she quickly slipped into the darker sides of the town, much to her parent's dismay. After a few rebellious years, she got back in line again and joined the city guard, where she was trained as a fighter. Unlike the rest of her family, she is not overly religious.
Name: Martin Jorgson
Race: Human
Class: Ranger
Alignment: Neutral Good
Age: 21
Personality: silent, introvert, doesn't like crowds, practical
Bio: Martin grew up in a village near Luskan and was trained as a gatekeeper. The others don't know much about him because he mainly keeps to himself. He does seem to follow Anar around, though.
Name: Mara van Gorgen
Race: Human
Class: Cleric of Helm
Alignment: Lawful Good
Age: 18
Personality: Stubborn, serious, keen, dutiful, strong sense for justice, not a good sense of humor, leery
Bio: Unlike her older sister, Mara never fell in with shady figures of Luskan. She began to despise the city very early, which led to her wanting to step into her father's footsteps. However, she wasn't cut out to be a warrior like her dad and sister, so she decided to become a cleric instead.
Name: Ricardo Emere
Race: Lightfoot Halfling
Class: Rogue
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Age: 32
Personality: Quick, self proclaimed lady's man, kleptomaniac, troublemaker, good actor
Bio: Ricardo originally hails from Athkatla. His parents where terrible which lead to him becoming a streetrat. He likes women a lot and it's his hobby to woo them (sometimes more successful than other times). He travels a lot, mostly to escape the cityguard and husbands of the places he has been too. One day it took him to Luskan where he made the mistake to break into the van Gorgen estate. Ribert caught him and the two made a deal, that Ricardo would have to be Ribert's servant and help him to fight for justice in exchange for not handing him over to the guards. The two actually became friends and now Ricardo follows the paladin out of his own will. Though it looks a lot like he only sticks around to be close to Ribert's daughters ....
Name: Gabaldras Regites
Race: Sunelf
Class: Mage
Alignment: Neutral good
Age: 219
Personality: Kind, patient, eloquent, curious, smart, wise, likes children, likes teaching, a bit of an airhead
Bio: Gabaldras originally hails from Evermeet but he was soon get the travel bug and moved to the mainland where he became an instructor at the wizard's academy. There he met the back then only seven year old Ribert's mother, who herself was a teacher at the academy. They became friends and Gabaldras became like an uncle to Ribert. Many years later, when Ribert himself became a father, he became Anar's and Maya's godfather.
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@booinyoureyes @jackjack @Quartz @Elrandir @meagloth @CrevsDaak
http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/IWD2/party3_wr.php
As a suggestion for others who are trying to come up with their own party ideas, take a look at the other IWD2 pre-made parties. Some nice roleplaying ideas there.
I just really really enjoy creating my OCs, which is why this never crossed my mind.
Also, I got the whole idea with the family from LARPing with my brothers, our characters there are also all in some way related. Also, it gives great opportunities for roleplay.
But yeah, thanks
Looking forward to see your characters
one is a firefly party with Malcolm Reynolds as a fighter 2->swashbuckler and my other idea was a poor-character party of my real life friends;) I think it would be funny to see how long we last as adventurers.
Nice to have an easy way to view all the portraits. Helps me choose the ones I've been unsure of. I do hope all of the IWD2 portraits are available. After all, we really don't have much in the way of half-orc pictures otherwise.
Edit: After looking over the males a second time, I'm still not sure what my cleric/ranger will look like... None of them scream cleric/ranger to me.
I'll share one:
I played this portrait as "Durandel," a fallen paladin who was regardless a good leader. Idk. He had that deep voice added in HoW that sort of sounds kinda like Sarevok.
I'm gonna replay him in IWD:EE as a Blackguard.
I should seriously do a Let's Play or some crap. Idk if anyone would care though hahaha
I think most of the people on firefly end up with a lot of thief blood in them, so I might have to fudge some things:) everyone will be human unless I need to change it for a multiclass.
Malcolm Reynolds-chaotic good
Fighter 2-->swashbuckler.... I'll need to figure out EEkeeper.... I have a Mac. Oh well, he may just be a thief.
Anyway, *dagger and **crossbow and *in single weapon style in the beginning. Not sure we're I'll go from there.
Str 15
Con 13
Dex 17(fudging:)
Int 17
Wis 10
Cha 16
Jayne Cobb-chaotic neutral
Berserker
**longbow **two handed sword
18str
17con
17dex
7int
6wis
9cha
Simon Tam-true neutral
Cleric/Mage
*dart *quarterstaff
12str
13dex
9con
18int
17wis
17cha
Derrial (Shepard) Book-lawful neutral
Monk
*punching things *katana *dagger(I don't remember how many *'s monks get at one)
17str
16dex
15con
15int
18wis
16cha
River Tam-chaotic good
Sorcerer
*dagger *sling
12str
8con
17dex
18int
10wis
7cha
Inara Serra-true neutral
Bard(fudging)
*shortbow *longsword
10str
14con
16dex
16int
15wis
18cha
Any thoughts? Especially on proficiencies—I don't know what the good weapons are.
Name: Vexar (Last name in progress)
Birthplace; Unknown; all that is known is he lived in a forest worshiping Silvanus while his family stayed in waterdeep.
Class:Druid
Race:Human
Age:16
"I left a dagger in his throat and a scimitar in his stomach" That's what Vexar told his newly found companions. Vexar was on his way to visit his family. When he reached his parents home he was given the news that his sister had been killed in his weeks away. She had 11 years. She was killed because she refused to give him the bread she had just purchased. He supposedly needed it so badly for his expedition into a cave nearby. He took it from her killing her in the process, although he was filled with joy when he heard he won't be having kids because of her. He was supposedly still at the cave as they finally left for it a few days back. Walking through the cave, Vexar found many troll corpses as well as an adventurers body here an there. Upon reaching the final chamber Vexar found his killer. From what he's been told his body is still there the same way he left him. Vexar then departed to easthaven to join the caravan to kuldhar. Upon his arrival tales of his deed had reached even the desolate city of easthaven. An adventuring party needed a sixth member and he happily agreed. It was his first feeling of happiness since he was told about his sister. Despite his young age he felt he had proven his worth to the group.
Vexar Ironbones
I came up with it based on the fact that we has able to get through his sisters death and tracking down her killer while only feeling a bit sad :P
Long sword** x-bow* single-weapon*
Berserkers can't go beyond proficient in ranged weapons. So, maybe two-handed style or a blunt weapon for Jayne (always good to have a backup weapon). I kind of like Hammers for Jayne.
I'd make Book a Fighter -> Cleric dual-class. He's a warrior who put down the sword and picked up the holy book (but can still wield it when needed). I'd even fudge him to already be like a 7th level fighter, but 1st level cleric. He'll have mondo HP, but his THAC0, proficiencies, etc.. will be as a cleric. I'd even make some of his fighter proficiencies in weapon unusable by clerics to show his life-change wasn't planned.
Profs: Staff, sling (fighter ones: hmmm, well I'd make several unusable by clerics: katana***, dagger*, two-weapon fighting**)
River would be my monk. Weak at first, but with amazingly frightening powers as she develops.
Monks get 2 profs. For River, I'd do darts and Scimitar/Wakizashi/Ninja-to. I guess I'd want to make sure there's some of those weapons available, of course - replace scimitar with dagger or short sword if I'm worried about availability of wakizashis/ninja-tos.
Cleric/Mage can't use darts. Simon should be sling & mace (& shield)
Inara as a Bard - perfect.
I'd also like to have my first playthrough vanilla anyway.
I'm definitely keeping River as a sorcerer. I really want one in my group(it's a personal thing) and I think it fits best because
She's a Psychic. If half-illithid(I'll never get that mental image out of my head) was a playable race that would be great... But I think sorcerer is defiantly the closest to psion.
I also like shepherd as a monk. Religious, but a surprisingly capable fighter. And in the first episode he says he came from a monastery. It seem like a logical connection. Also, I don't want to fudge stats to much, and Book works out with Jayne so he can get decent strength RP wise I'm not about to make river Melee-capable. I'm all for the proficiency changes, however. I've never played iwd dale so I don't know what's good.
So now I have
Malcolm Reynolds-chaotic good
Fighter 2-->swashbuckler.... I'll need to figure out EEkeeper.... I have a Mac. Oh well, he may just be a thief.
Anyway, *dagger and **crossbow and *in single weapon style in the beginning. Not sure we're I'll go from there.
Jayne Cobb-chaotic neutral
Berserker
*longbow **two handed sword *two handed weapon style hammers later
Simon Tam-true neutral
Cleric/Mage
*sling *quarterstaff mace later, I think.
Derrial (Shepard) Book-lawful neutral
Monk
*punching things *katana *dagger(I don't remember how many *'s monks get at one)
River Tam-chaotic good
Sorcerer
*dagger *dart
Inara Serra-true neutral
Bard(fudging)
*shortbow *longsword probably spear or quaterstaff(which has better selection?) and xbow later
I would just go for extremely OP.
@AstroBryGuy yes, I know. But that's at the very end, for the most of it she's not all badass like that, and I think a shapechange spell a thigh level is the same deal:) also, I'm not as familiar with the movie as I am with the t.v. Show, so I'm mostly thinking about that over the movie. (the movie isn't on hulu)