Lunchtime Poll #2

After the unfortunate demise of Docs Blog and the Game Dream meme (the entire site is sadly no more), a couple of new gaming memes have taken it's place.

This one's called "Lunchtime Poll" (although it's evening over here), from Ravings of a Textual. Today's simply asks:

What's the strangest character you've ever played?

That has to be Bug. The game was a series of linked convention one-shots called "Guardians of Dimension", played over three Gypsycons. The PCs were a team of interdimensional troubleshooters. Bug was the party's scout, a 2" long sentient insect. This party also included a troll, a telepathic horse and the personification of Murphy's Law.

Bug had the advantage of being small enough to go where other party members could not. Bug's disadvantage was an insect-like attention span, and not being very useful in combat. Had to stay well away from the baby kraken in the crashed spaceship we were exploring! The ability to speak with other insects turned out not to be terribly useful; Bug never met another insect who had anything meaningful or interesting to say.