Favorite Retired Characters
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 9:15 am
Given Flatline's recent thread on banned characters, I thought I might pose a similar question.
What are your favorite characters that had to be retired because they got too powerful for the game? Tell us about them, go ahead and brag a little!
Did you ever get to bring them out of retirement for a higher power level game?
Ever have to retire them a second time?
In answer to my own question, I've got to say that my own personal favorite character was the one I put a character tribute to in Lemuria, Sakura Hayase.
She started life as a Neo-Human with an emphasis on technological skills (back before RUE, pretty certain that she wouldn't be considered a legal character any more). The GM I was playing with at the time allowed multi-classing with our own custom house rules, so I eventually picked up Cyber-doc, then got interested in this whole "Magic" thing, and realized that she was also a Spatial Mage. During all of this, great amounts of adventuring went on, she learned about a lot of different types of technology, and accumulated a substantial stock pile of funds. Having acquired a pre-rifts naval ship, we refitted her, included a factory and began producing a series of arms that she had invented, based upon improvements to several of the different types of tech that the group had come across during those adventures. She marketed a new particle wave rifle and pistol to North America. She invented a heavier version of it. She invented a six-barreled version for mounting on vehicles and stationary defenses. As a cyber-doc, she created a new, full conversion cyborg shell based upon the VF-2SS SAP, only 6' tall. She developed body armor that could be augmented by those same "FAST" packs that the borgs used, turning them into light power armor. All of it, weapons, armor, accessories, cross-compatible.
After one of the players was playing a GiGi pilot, Sakura developed a robot-slave for the character. Basically, a rapid transport hovercycle robust enough for a Glitter Boy/Glitter Girl to ride into combat. It could then transform into a fire support combat bot to support the Glitter Trooper. (things like point defense are useful additions really...) In a real emergency, it would also take a wounded pilot and evac them to a medical station.
By this time, the arms business was doing very well, and she had a rather dedicated staff working for her. She ran into several situations where larger numbers of troops were needed, and she had been forced to hire mercenaries on those occasions. She decided that it was unnecessary to continue spending money on mercs, and formed her own Merc Company. Since it would hardly due for her troops to be using some other manufacturer's weapons and armor, she issued her own gear, and developed new lines of power armor, 4 male and 4 female versions of ground armor specialized to certain battlefield roles, 4 similarly specialized suits that were flight capable. Each of those lines of power armor was available in standard and samurai variants.
Of course, everything at this point was made off of a cloaking version of glitter armor (think predator cloak). Armed with particle wave technology, backed up with copious amounts of mini-missiles, and glitter-cloak armor, they were a highly-devastating force to be reckoned with, and what ultimately led to her being retired the first time.
I got to bring her out of retirement when the group I was playing with switched to a higher power level game, and she was allowed to provide her mercenary company as planetary security for a battle-group seeing action in a universe not unlike phase world.
She acquired a fleet of her own, and won engagements left and right that she shouldn't have been capable of, a la Honor Harrington style, her subordinates started worshiping her, and as a Neo-Human, she wasn't opposed to this. It eventually lead to her achieving God-hood, and eventually needing to be retired a second time.
Have yet to have a chance to play her a third time.
Sakura Hayase, Goddess of Technology and War. Ally of Zandragal and Thoth. Intergalactic Arms Dealer (Hayase Aeronautical Industries) and thorn in Naruni's side. Creator Deity for the Kowe. (A furry, two foot tall, magically adept species you might recognize from a certain popular movie. You're not really a god until you've created your own race... )
What are your favorite characters that had to be retired because they got too powerful for the game? Tell us about them, go ahead and brag a little!
Did you ever get to bring them out of retirement for a higher power level game?
Ever have to retire them a second time?
In answer to my own question, I've got to say that my own personal favorite character was the one I put a character tribute to in Lemuria, Sakura Hayase.
She started life as a Neo-Human with an emphasis on technological skills (back before RUE, pretty certain that she wouldn't be considered a legal character any more). The GM I was playing with at the time allowed multi-classing with our own custom house rules, so I eventually picked up Cyber-doc, then got interested in this whole "Magic" thing, and realized that she was also a Spatial Mage. During all of this, great amounts of adventuring went on, she learned about a lot of different types of technology, and accumulated a substantial stock pile of funds. Having acquired a pre-rifts naval ship, we refitted her, included a factory and began producing a series of arms that she had invented, based upon improvements to several of the different types of tech that the group had come across during those adventures. She marketed a new particle wave rifle and pistol to North America. She invented a heavier version of it. She invented a six-barreled version for mounting on vehicles and stationary defenses. As a cyber-doc, she created a new, full conversion cyborg shell based upon the VF-2SS SAP, only 6' tall. She developed body armor that could be augmented by those same "FAST" packs that the borgs used, turning them into light power armor. All of it, weapons, armor, accessories, cross-compatible.
After one of the players was playing a GiGi pilot, Sakura developed a robot-slave for the character. Basically, a rapid transport hovercycle robust enough for a Glitter Boy/Glitter Girl to ride into combat. It could then transform into a fire support combat bot to support the Glitter Trooper. (things like point defense are useful additions really...) In a real emergency, it would also take a wounded pilot and evac them to a medical station.
By this time, the arms business was doing very well, and she had a rather dedicated staff working for her. She ran into several situations where larger numbers of troops were needed, and she had been forced to hire mercenaries on those occasions. She decided that it was unnecessary to continue spending money on mercs, and formed her own Merc Company. Since it would hardly due for her troops to be using some other manufacturer's weapons and armor, she issued her own gear, and developed new lines of power armor, 4 male and 4 female versions of ground armor specialized to certain battlefield roles, 4 similarly specialized suits that were flight capable. Each of those lines of power armor was available in standard and samurai variants.
Of course, everything at this point was made off of a cloaking version of glitter armor (think predator cloak). Armed with particle wave technology, backed up with copious amounts of mini-missiles, and glitter-cloak armor, they were a highly-devastating force to be reckoned with, and what ultimately led to her being retired the first time.
I got to bring her out of retirement when the group I was playing with switched to a higher power level game, and she was allowed to provide her mercenary company as planetary security for a battle-group seeing action in a universe not unlike phase world.
She acquired a fleet of her own, and won engagements left and right that she shouldn't have been capable of, a la Honor Harrington style, her subordinates started worshiping her, and as a Neo-Human, she wasn't opposed to this. It eventually lead to her achieving God-hood, and eventually needing to be retired a second time.
Have yet to have a chance to play her a third time.
Sakura Hayase, Goddess of Technology and War. Ally of Zandragal and Thoth. Intergalactic Arms Dealer (Hayase Aeronautical Industries) and thorn in Naruni's side. Creator Deity for the Kowe. (A furry, two foot tall, magically adept species you might recognize from a certain popular movie. You're not really a god until you've created your own race...
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