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Post by theotherjosh on Jul 11, 2017 12:55:28 GMT
This may seem like an odd request, but I'm looking for ideas for terrible companions. I'm not sure if this is the best forum for this, so mods, if you think another forum is more appropriate, please spirit the post away to its proper place.
I'm finally running a Doctor Who RPG game for my friends, a good nine months after announcing that I would do it.
The players are going to be playing against another team in a game show in the Celestial Toymaker's realm for the chance to win a TARDIS. It's going to be extremely silly.
Our team of heroes characters is:
- An Adipose obsessed with 80s culture.
- A field researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide.
- Cersei Lannister, because why not?
- Cersei's son, a baby Dalek complete with tiny travel casing. She emphatically denies that her Dalek ex-boyfriend is the father.
Options I was kicking around for the rival team:
- Rose Tyler's hairdresser, who is chasing her most valuable client through time and space.
- George R.R. Martin, who wants to win a time machine so he can send the books back in time so fans will stop complaining.
- Someone from another time travel property
- Jane Austen's ghost writer
- (Stole this one from a list online) River Song's Teaching Assistant.
- Someone the players hate. It's occasionally fun to do this. I was playing in a Call of Cthulhu playtest and I (correctly) assumed we were all going to die horribly, so I named my character after my hated former boss and just played up all his obnoxious traits.
- Angsty teen Romana II
Does anyone out there have any appropriately silly suggestions?
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Post by mark687 on Jul 11, 2017 13:32:00 GMT
* Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker's
* Sansa Stark
* Tegan
* Skinner (the Simpsons or The X-files)
* Sam Whinchester (both teams would get bonus points ever time he died/ got pocessed)
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Post by jasonward on Jul 11, 2017 13:40:49 GMT
* Dean Whinchester (both teams would get bonus points ever time he died/ got pocessed) Not played any RPG since I was a young teenager, many years ago, but with Dean Winchester surely some situations would only be winnable if Dean was fighting for the other side while possessed? |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jul 11, 2017 13:51:00 GMT
Monseur Siloeur, a Frenchman who wants to win a TARDIS so he can sample a variety of cheeses during different periods of Earth's history.
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Post by jasonward on Jul 11, 2017 13:56:21 GMT
Ellie Woods (of Legally Blonde) attacks would be disarm, charm and pink eye (blinded by all the pinkness) - she's perusing a member of the opposing team with the intention to marry them.
Donald Trump - attacks would be confuse, outrage and grope - he's interprets everything as a win for him and the opposition as fake player, his main weakness, being exposed to the truth.
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Post by bobod on Jul 11, 2017 13:59:53 GMT
Donald Trump - attacks would be confuse, outrage and grope - he's interprets everything as a win for him and the opposition as fake player, his main weakness, being exposed to the truth. I think you've just played a Trump card. |
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Post by mark687 on Jul 11, 2017 14:21:29 GMT
* Dean Whinchester (both teams would get bonus points ever time he died/ got pocessed) Not played any RPG since I was a young teenager, many years ago, but with Dean Winchester surely some situations would only be winnable if Dean was fighting for the other side while possessed? Curses wrong Brother of course I meant Sam 
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Post by mark687 on Jul 11, 2017 14:23:10 GMT
Donald Trump - attacks would be confuse, outrage and grope - he's interprets everything as a win for him and the opposition as fake player, his main weakness, being exposed to the truth. I think you've just played a Trump card. Are you here all week 
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mark687
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Post by bobod on Jul 11, 2017 14:28:36 GMT
I think you've just played a Trump card. Are you here all week
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Post by theotherjosh on Jul 11, 2017 14:36:58 GMT
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jul 11, 2017 15:39:06 GMT
The Fifth Doctor (or an analogue) with every single nice thing AMPED UP BEYOND MEASURE.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne. "Pull up a chair."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 18:52:52 GMT
Will Arrowsmith
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Post by mrperson on Jul 11, 2017 20:38:25 GMT
Keith Moon. He'll blow up the drum kit, or maybe take a gorilla tranquilizer and fall onto it. You just never know.
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Post by omega on Jul 11, 2017 21:12:00 GMT
He was somewhat well written for by Matt Fitton, but bland by Jonathan Barnes and abysmally by Alan Barnes. |
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Post by omega on Jul 11, 2017 21:12:29 GMT
Are you here all week
Oh yes. Tip your waiter. Try the veal. The piece with the rat poison? |
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Post by bobod on Jul 11, 2017 21:22:51 GMT
Oh yes. Tip your waiter. Try the veal. The piece with the rat poison? Sorry. Veal's off. |
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Post by omega on Jul 11, 2017 22:37:25 GMT
The piece with the rat poison? Sorry. Veal's off. Would you care for a rat? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 23:14:35 GMT
Would you care for a rat? Nineteenth-century vintage? Hmm... Terrible companions... A literal pet rock? A phantom trapped in a potted plant, whose only malevolent power is giving people a mild static zap? A tax-collecting Yeti? A time traveller who always insists on arriving unfashionably late with a hangover? |
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Post by omega on Jul 11, 2017 23:18:18 GMT
Would you care for a rat? Nineteenth-century vintage? Hmm... Terrible companions... A literal pet rock? A phantom trapped in a potted plant, whose only malevolent power is giving people a mild static zap? A tax-collecting Yeti? A time traveller who always insists on arriving unfashionably late with a hangover? You've asked for it this time! Why wouldn't your lovely Auntie Iris be a good companion for the Doctor? I promise I won't drink too much. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 23:21:59 GMT
Nineteenth-century vintage? Hmm... Terrible companions... A literal pet rock? A phantom trapped in a potted plant, whose only malevolent power is giving people a mild static zap? A tax-collecting Yeti? A time traveller who always insists on arriving unfashionably late with a hangover? You've asked for it this time! Why wouldn't your lovely Auntie Iris be a good companion for the Doctor? I promise I won't drink too much. Well, bugger, I completely forgot about lovely Auntie Iris.  She always brings the nicest presents, it's just a shame the family is teetotal -- and the alcohol content likely to kill a man. How about a Guardian forever stuck as a babysitter? |
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She always brings the nicest presents, it's just a shame the family is teetotal -- and the alcohol content likely to kill a man.