Gravitus Everlast wrote:So my GM only owns one issue of the rifter, and its the best rifter you can own, the april fools 9.5 edition. In it is an OCC I've been trying to get my GM to let me play since I first started playing in his games, The Tourist. After reading through it, all I could think of was, "where did I put my copy of the hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy?" I figure you use vagabond as your RCC so you can have uber skills for every situation in the megaverse plus bumming around in random spaceports will come naturally to you, then add Tourist as your OCC and just call the combination Intergalactic Hitchhiker. My GM says I can't play a tourist untill I can get atleast one of my other characters to 15th level in any RCC or OCC... after reading what the tourist does, I think most GM's would agree with him... he tells me the campaign we're in right now won't be over untill everyone has hit 30th level... Random spaceports, here I come!
Vagabond is an OCC. You'd have to be a dual class to do what you propose. May I humbly suggest playing a Shifter or Spatial Mage (Rifter 3 and 5) with a more "touristy" skill set? They have the advantage of being one OCC and make travel easy! I may be starting a Spatial Mage soon (backup character for current campagin), it seems like a fun spin to play him as a wandering anthropologist type. He has no WP skills
Be at peace, my people. All shall be looked up.
Carl Gleba wrote:My original line of thinking goes along with asajosh... Carl
Jesterzzn wrote:So just remember that its just the internet, and none of our opinions matter anyway, and you'll do fine.
Gravitus Everlast wrote:Acctually, I really was set on writing the character without ANY magic or psi powers at all. I wanted to get myself stuck on some unknown planet and try to find a way off of it and on to the next one. It would be fun. But I enjoy intentionally making the game harder for myself. Though, there are certain advantages to being a skill monkey.
"the party comes to a giant castle like building with a large forboding metal door... and its locked. The brutish pit fighter nearly breaks his hand trying to punch the door in while the wizard and the psychic discuss ways of determining what the door is made of so they can more easily remove it from their way... The damn tourist looks at them and says, "Hey guys, did anybody try the key under the doormat?""
Tourist: You see these markings on the door frame? These here are hobo code: This one is Good Eats, this one is Sexy Daugher, and um... this last here is a little harder to make out... ah yes, Treasure Trove in Basement and Hero Graveyard around Back!
Rest of the Party: Ooo's and Aah's at Tourist's bizzare knowledge and prepare for battle!
Be at peace, my people. All shall be looked up.
Carl Gleba wrote:My original line of thinking goes along with asajosh... Carl
Jesterzzn wrote:So just remember that its just the internet, and none of our opinions matter anyway, and you'll do fine.
Playing journalists are fun. In Cal of Cthulu I played one. He stuck himself in the back to log what everyone else did. He ocaisionally stepped forward only to convince someone to let them do something (I'm a great bser and the character got the skills to do it).
During the very first mission we were investigating an old house that was where some old guy performed some rituals that he wanted stopped. When we arrived the doctor was investigating the basement when some scared crazy homeless guy ran up the stairs trying to get away (thinking that we were another hallucination). The doctor, still in a rifts mindset, immediately took the guy as a threat. He tried to hit him with his pistol, missed and was punched in the face for his trouble. Another character tried to tackle him and missed as well, crashing into an old table.
My journalist character, who was well behind the team but between them and the door was chuckling at this group of intellectuals trying to beat up a homeless guy (basically coming off as rank amateurs) when the doctor yelled "Somebody stop him!" My journalist shrugged, and as the guy was running by he just stuck out his foot, criticled with his 'trip attack' and the fell flat on his face. Other members of the team then held him down until he calmed down.
The whole group was laughing their butts off, and my journalist became known for his simple solutions to complex problems. Like when he also knocked out the crazy torture guy by throwing a hatchet handle....
