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Ectoplasmoid 09-08-04, 03:39 PM	Eberron, with it's cinematic style, lends itself to the conversion of various characters from poular culture to D&D. This thread is for the compilation of such classic characters, or their very close analogs. With that, I give to you those all-stars of comicdom...Calvin and Hobbes! Full Stats On Request. Calvin- CN human Illusionist1Artificer 7/Rogue 1 (Forever Young Template, with credit to whomever) Hobbes- Inexplicably N Zakya Rakshasa. Please, Please, Post!
jonthegm 09-08-04, 04:01 PM	Indiana Jones: Human Bard 4 / Rogue 4 / Extreme Explorer 5 Mad Martigan: Human Fighter 6 Willow: Halfling Rogue 3 / Wizard 1
Kintara 09-08-04, 11:58 PM	Indiana Jones: Human Bard 4 / Rogue 4 / Extreme Explorer 5I'd probably just go straight Rogue to start, with the Education feat. Then Extreme Explorer, of course. ;) And Hobbes isn't a Rakshasa. He's Calvin's uniquely shaped homunculus! ;) Okay, enough being all critical. -- Victor Frankenstein is an Artificer 6 who somehow discovered the secrets of Incarnate Construct (the spell from Savage Species, I don't remember what spell level it is, or anything, though, so I don't know how he casted it, or if he can).
jonthegm 09-09-04, 12:28 AM	I'd probably just go straight Rogue to start, with the Education feat. Then Extreme Explorer, of course. ;) And Hobbes isn't a Rakshasa. He's Calvin's uniquely shaped homunculus! ;) Okay, enough being all critical. -- Victor Frankenstein is an Artificer 6 who somehow discovered the secrets of Incarnate Construct (the spell from Savage Species, I don't remember what spell level it is, or anything, though, so I don't know how he casted it, or if he can). I dunno, Indy is a professor in his downtime... that speaks to me of a CHA based class... Vic Frankenstein obviously had access to an Eldritch machine!
Kintara 09-09-04, 01:07 AM	I dunno, Indy is a professor in his downtime... that speaks to me of a CHA based class...Well, Rogues have Perform (Oratory)! Edit:...Hey, wait. What kind of professors did you have? ;) Vic Frankenstein obviously had access to an Eldritch machine!Mmmm, especially the movie version. :)
jonthegm 09-09-04, 01:39 AM	Well, Rogues have Perform (Oratory)! Edit:...Hey, wait. What kind of professors did you have? ;) My physics profs were very fond of the ol' song and dance. New character: The Saint Changeling Rogue 5 / Assassin 10 (evil req. waived)
The_other 09-09-04, 03:13 AM	New character: The Saint Changeling Rogue 5 / Assassin 10 (evil req. waived) i dont think he was much of a assassin, just a international thief The punisher: Human Ranger5/rogue6 Willard: Human Expert2/Druid10 Ace Ventura: Rouge3/ranger4/Master Inquisitive4
LewisLlynn 09-09-04, 05:22 PM	From the Wizard of Oz!!!!! Dorothy: NG female human bard 1/commoner 3 Scarecrow: CG male animated scarecrow rogue 1 Tin Man: LG male personality warforged warrior 2 Lion: Unexplainably intelligent CG lion Wizard: LN male human wizard 1/bard 3/rogue 1 Glinda: NG female half-elf wizard 8 Wicked Witch: NE female drow(with green skin instead of black :looloo: ) sorcerer 5/rogue 1 Average Munchkin: NG male or female halfling commoner 1/dragonmark heir 1 (Mark of Hospitality) Average Winkie: LN male half-orc fighter 2 :D Wheee!!! What fun!!!
jonthegm 09-09-04, 05:32 PM	i dont think he was much of a assassin, just a international thief Point taken... I'll restat him into... The Saint -- Changeling -- Rogue 10 / Extreme Explorer 5 (emphasis on find traps/CHA skills) (from Black Adder 3, Probably the most appropriate to Eberron) Black Adder -- Human Rogue 2 (CHA emphasis) / Fighter 1 / Aristocrat 1 Baldrick -- Human Rogue 1 / Commoner 1 George, The Prince Regent -- Human Aristocrat 4
Saurenda 09-09-04, 05:36 PM	Kieth Baker Expert (Writer) Level 2 Neutral Evil Ellen Baker Expert (Business Woman) Level 13/ Lasher 5 Lawful Evil Hellboy Half-fiend Human Fighter(Gun) 7/ Sorceror 1 And btw savage species has anthropomoprhic character, thus Cowardly lion was a Anthrompomorphic Lion (+2 LA) That how he was intelligent ^^ Jack the Ripper Rouge 6/Assassin 2/Invisible Blade 1
Alac Luin 09-09-04, 06:16 PM	Ok, I thought of the cowardly lion as a shifter. The Scarecrow, as an livewood branch shaped into humanoid under a druid’s awaken spell. Now, how about a pack of Rat shifters. Gadget Lvl 7 artificer CG Monterey Jack lvl 4 fighter/4 barbarian NG Chip Lvl 5 rouge LG Dale Lvl 4 rouge CN (int 8 wis 6)
Zak'nafein 09-09-04, 08:17 PM	About Victor Frankenstein... I don't think an eldritch machine is what he used, or the spell from Savage Species. In Mongoose Publishing's Ultimate Feats there's a great one called: Create Wondrous Creature (Item Creation) You know how to create aberrations, beasts, magical beasts, monstrous humanoids, and plants. Prerequisites: Knowlege (arcana) or Knowledge (psionics), Knowledge (nature), Spellcaster level 5+ or Manifester level 5+ Benefit: You can create any aberration, beast, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, or plant for which you meet the prerequisites. The creature created is not necessarily under your control. To create a creature you need access to a lab, similar to an alchemist's lab, of at least 500gp value. The creation of a creature involves taking a similar creature or creatures and subjecting them to various spells and grafting techniques. There is a chance the experiment will be a failure. To create a creature you must succeed both a Knowledge (arcana) or Knowledge (psionics) and a Knowledge (nature) check (DC 20 + CR of attempted creature). You may not Take 10 on these rolls. However, you get a +1 circumstance bonus for every attempt at a specific creature you have previously made, whether successful or not. If both Knowledge skill checks are failed, the creature dies a horrible death. If one Knowledge skill check fails, and one Knowledge skill check succeeds,the resulting creation is horribly deformed in some way and is hostile towards you. The base price of a creature is the challenge rating squared times 1,000gp (CR x CR x 1,000gp). Creating a creature takes 1 day for every 1,000gp in its base price. To create a creature, you must spend one-twenty-fifth of its base price in experience points and use up raw materials costing half of its base price. The minimum caster level for creating a creature is (Unfortunately, my copy of Ultimate Feats is missing whatever number goes here) times the Challenge Rating of the intended creature. The appropriate spells must be used in order to add extraordinary (Ex), spell-like (Sp), and/or supernatural (Su) abilities. Special: If a charm monster spell is cast every day of the creation process, a successfully created creature will be in permanent servitude to you. If a limited wish is used in the creation process a successfully created creature will be in permanent servitude to you and will even follow a life goal, determined by you, after you have died. If a wish is used in the creation process, a successfully created creature and its descendants will follow a life goal, determined by you, even after you have died. Handy little feat...
Redbeard_Gamer 09-10-04, 03:35 PM	Lara Croft. Obvious Rogue/ Extreme Explorer. Possibly a level or two of fighter.
tylerthehobo 09-10-04, 04:42 PM	Nick Charles of The Thin Man series, Rogue 4, Master Inquisitive 2, Drunkard 3 Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon, Rogue 5, Master Inquisitive 1, Extreme Explorer 1 and of course the modern take... Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction, Rogue 8, Assassin 1
jonthegm 09-10-04, 05:19 PM	Lara Croft. Obvious Rogue/ Extreme Explorer. Possibly a level or two of fighter. Instead of fighter, how about ranger w/ multishot (dual repeating xbows!) More Villains: The Phantom of the Opera (Broadway Version) -- Human Bard 10 Shere Khan (Tale Spin Version) -- Rakshasa Rogue (CHA based) 5 / Expert (Businessman) 5 Kroger (Movie Version) -- Warforged Rogue 5 / Assassin 10
GimliGloinson 09-10-04, 06:01 PM	Otay -- Cowardly Lion is an awakened lion. Here're some obscure ones (Name the movie and you win a No-Prize (tm)!): Finnegan -- human Rogue4/Fighter4 Pantucci -- human Artificer7 Trillian -- Rogue7 Hanover -- Fighter 8 Another movie: D'Amour -- Rogue5/Fighter 2/Master Inquisitive 3 Nix -- Illusionist 19 Swann -- Illusionist 9 And yet another movie: Riddick -- Fighter10/Rogue3/Asn5 Kyra/Jack -- Rogue7/Asn3
GimliGloinson 09-10-04, 06:33 PM	How about some NOT movie people? Hannibal -- human Fighter 3/Rogue 7 Templeton "Faceman" -- changeling Rogue 8 Murdock -- human Rogue 8 BA -- human Barbarian 4/Fighter 5
Lujayne34 09-10-04, 06:45 PM	How about some NOT movie people? Hannibal -- human Fighter 3/Rogue 7 Templeton "Faceman" -- changeling Rogue 8 Murdock -- human Rogue 8 BA -- human Barbarian 4/Fighter 5 Actually I was thinking more like: Hannibal: Changeling Fighter/Rogue (Smith always uses disguises) Templeton: Human Rogue (Face is a procurement specialist) Murdock: Half-elf Rogue Dragonmark House Lyrandar (to pilot those airships) BA: Warforged Barbarian/Artificer (BA is always constructing things as well as being a fighter type)
Alac Luin 09-10-04, 07:31 PM	Daphnie- Wiiz (Ench)3 Velma- Wiz (Div) 4/ Loremaster 2 Fread- Paladin 4 Shaggy- Rouge 5 (with maxed skill in disguise) Scoobie- Awakened Hound
Joni-san 09-10-04, 08:10 PM	S. Holmes: Changeling Rogue/Master Inqisitive with the Investigative feat and some ranks in Perform:Violin Mr. Watson: House d'Sivis Bard with Perform/Craft:Writing? And ranks in Heal Dr. Moriarty: I can't come up with anything here. You fill in the blank
cyberpunk 09-11-04, 02:16 PM	Samurai Jack barbarian 5 fighter 4 weapon master(kensai) 6 (nonlawful waived)
Remnant 09-11-04, 03:01 PM	Spike: Fighter 4/Rogue 3 Jet: Fighter 3/Inquisitive 4 (note- don't have books and not paying attention to pre-reqs) Faye: Rogue 4 Ed: Bard 5 (Or, I suppose, artificer or expert) Ein: Awakened dog (still can't speak)
Remnant 09-11-04, 03:19 PM	We did this one in another thread- Fry: Human Commoner (w/very high CON score) Leela: Human (templated: mutant or somesuch) monk Bender: Warforged Rogue (w/exceptional STR score) Professor: Human Artificier Hermes: Human, Expert: Accountant/Expert: Legendary limbo champion Amy: Human aristocrat Dr. Zoidberg: Chull, Expert: Heal (takes major penalties) Zap Branagan: Human Paladin/Marshal (Very high CHA score, low wisdom and intelligence) We debated this for a couple of posts on the old thread- Fry is straightforward enough, commoner seems like the perfect class, and by all rights he should be dead. Leela I originally had as some kind of reduced cyclops. It's easier, and more accurate to the show, to call her a templated human. Monk simply because of her martial arts training and frequent use thereof. Bender I orginally had as a fighter/rogue, but it was pointed out that his fighting ability is more due to his strength and robot nature. Professor- self explanitory Hermes- same Amy- in the old post, it was argued that as she is initially stated to be an engineering student, she should have maybe an artificier or expert component. I disagree, as beyond the mentioning of it, she never uses or brings it up. Zoidberg- best one in the list, IMHO. Can't get much more direct than a chull. Zap Branagan: I realize there are a bunch of things you could justify Zap as being, but I felt that he exemplifies the Lawful Stupid paladin, with a little bit of marshal thrown in. I say high CHA score because that is the only way for him to be able to maintain his position and be routinely thought of as a hero, despite massive and continual blunders resulting in fatalities on a large scale. Not to mention his hatred of the neutral planet. Or defeating the kill bots by sending wave after wave of men at them until they reached their kill limit.
Ectoplasmoid 09-11-04, 03:22 PM	Leonardo: Anthropomorphic Turtle Samurai 4/Marshal 1 Donatello: Anthropomorphic Turtle Artificer 4/Fighter 1 Michaelangelo: Anthro Turtle Rogue 3/Bard 1/Monk 1 Rafael: Anthro Turtle Monk 5 Splinter: Anthro Rat Monk 10
Alac Luin 09-11-04, 07:04 PM	I never got to see this one to much, but how about a land cart bound by an intelligent elemental and capable of speech. Speed Buggy. :)
Chrys 09-12-04, 10:22 AM	Scooby Doo: Anthropomorphic Riding Dog rouge 1/bard 4/Master Inquistive 1
LewisLlynn 09-12-04, 04:17 PM	Peter Pan: CN male human rogue 3/sorcerer 3 Tinkerbell: CN female pixie rogue 1 Captain Hook: NE male human rogue 1/warrior 3/duelist 2 Wendy: NG female human expert 1 Tiger Lily: CG female human warrior 2/adept 1 Average Lost Boy: CG male human rogue 1 Average Pirate: Any evil male human rogue 1/warrior 1
Dimeron 09-13-04, 01:43 AM	I dunno, Indy is a professor in his downtime... that speaks to me of a CHA based class... Vic Frankenstein obviously had access to an Eldritch machine! Wouldn't it be an int based class? A professor is more about research than teaching. And I don't know about you, but I think most of my professor has a charisma of 8, as they often make a semi-interesting topic mind bogglingly boring. (Could be due to the fact i'm in engineering)
JohnSnow 09-14-04, 03:44 PM	Considerable d20 Modern discussions of Dr. Jones have always placed him as a character with a LOT of levels. He seems to possess elements of the Smart, Charismatic, Dedicated, Tough, and Fast classes. In D&D terms, I'd make him a rogue 4/ranger 3/Extreme Explorer. There are some bardic elements (bardic knowledge, EWP whip, knowledge skills out the wazzoo), but spellcasting doesn't fit Indiana that well, IMO (hence stopping ranger before the spellcasting kicks in). Action points, on the other hand, fit Indy like a glove.
Gilgiga of the Hunt 09-14-04, 08:40 PM	Hitchhikers Guide to the Multiverse Author Dent: Expert 3/ Rogue1 (picked up by the end of the serize) Ford Prefect: Bard 15 (possibly rogue, Bard semed to fit in more with the hitchhiker theme) Zaphod: Arstocrat 6/ Rogue 2 Trillian: Expert 2/Wizard 4 Marvin: Warfoged Artificer 2 The Guide would provide a +10 bonus to all Knowledge (The Planes ) ckecks, yet would contian little/no info on the prime.
Ph33r_the_Wheelchair 09-14-04, 10:25 PM	Full Metal Alchemist - a great anime and perfect for Eberron Edward Elric - CG human artificer 10 Alphonse Elric - NG warforged fighter 2/artificer 5 Roy Mustang - LN human sorcerer 10 Envy - NE changeling rogue 8 Greed - NE changeling fighter 6/warshaper 5
Dhakaani Heir 09-16-04, 07:11 AM	A series of teleport gates have been discovered by a nation of Khorvaire. Built by an ancient race(Giants?) they connect all of Eberron. An evil race(The Dreaming Dark) who poccess people and have psionic powers is encountered and they wish to conquer all of Khorvaire. Only Sg 1 can stop them. O'Neill - (Human CG fighter6/Rouge4) A veteran special forces soldier from the war specialised in infiltration missions. He leads SG1 Carter - (Human NG Artifier6/Fighter3/Psion1) Carter is a machanical genious and is on the team to study the Artifacts left by the Ancients.Not only is she the brains of the team she is a trained soldier as well and has some psionic ability from having briefly served as host for a good Quori Spirit. She seeks to prove herself in the male dominated military Tealc - (Human LG Monk10) Tealc was raised to be a fanatical soldier of the Inspired but rebelled against the false gods and now strives to free his people (Tealc simbiot grants him minor regenration and bonuses against diease and poison however if anything happens to it he suffers 1 point of constitution damage for every he goes without his simbiot. He remains silent unless he has something to say even when he talks his statments are short and to the point Dr. Jackson (Human NG Bard10) Dr. Jackson is a disgraced Archaeologist who was thrown out of his university over his wild claims about the Ancients. On the team he purpose is to analyze the ancient Artifacts and to negotiate with people the team discovers. He often clashes with O'Neill. So thats my idea for SG1
ENHenry 09-16-04, 09:43 AM	The Shadow: True Neutral Kalashtar Psion (Telepath) Level 10
LewisLlynn 09-17-04, 03:51 PM	(not worrying about prerequisites—don't have the book with me.) Hercule Poirot: N male human bard 2/master inquisitive 9 Jane Marple: NG female human commoner 4/master inquisitive 5 Tommy Beresford: LG male human rogue 2/master inquisitive 2/extreme explorer 1 Tuppence Beresford: CG female human bard 2/master inquisitive 4 Captain Hastings: LG male human fighter 3
Save-vs-DM 09-17-04, 04:21 PM	The Hellboy Crew Hellboy (Comic): TN Half Fiend-Half Human Rog3/Brd1/MI 5 Hellboy (Movie): NG Half Fiend-Half Human Ftr3/Brd3/MI 4 Abe (Movie): Sanguhin Psion (Telepath) 7 Abe (Comic): Sanguhin Expert 4 Liz (Move): Human Expert 4/Pyrokinetist 10 (Wild Talent Feat) Liz (Comic): Human Expert 3/Pyrokinetist 7 (Wild Talent Feat) From Spawn Spawn: Fiendish TN Human Lich Ftr7/BG5 (fallen)/Rog5 with symbiont (cape and necroflesh) Sam Burke: Human Expert4/MI 3 (Low Charisma, High Con) Maximillian "Twitch" Wiliams: Human Expert5/MI 5 (Natural 18 Int and Wis) Cogilistro: Fiendish TN Human Lich Ftr 5/BG 5 (Fallen)/Wiz 10 Darkwing Duck: Anthro Duck Rog 4/MI 1 (Low dex score) Launchpad: Anthro Duck Exp 5 Inspector Gadget: Half Human-Half Golem (iron) (made his save) Expert 4/MI 1 Daredevil: LG Human (Blind) Rog 5/Thief Acrobat 10/Monk 5. Blindsight 120' Bullseye: NE Human Ftr 10/Master Thrower 5 (Has a permanent True Strike ability) Elektra: TN (or NG) Human Monk 10 All I can think of now. Cheers, Save vs DM
Kintara 09-18-04, 01:39 AM	The Hellboy Crew Hellboy (Comic): TN Half Fiend-Half Human Rog3/Brd1/MI 5 Hellboy (Movie): NG Half Fiend-Half Human Ftr3/Brd3/MI 4 Why not just make him a Cornugon? ;) Let's really take advantage of those blurred alignments!
Agun_de_Merak 09-18-04, 05:00 AM	Here're some obscure ones (Name the movie and you win a No-Prize (tm)!): Finnegan -- human Rogue4/Fighter4 Pantucci -- human Artificer7 Trillian -- Rogue7 Hanover -- Fighter 8 Another movie: D'Amour -- Rogue5/Fighter 2/Master Inquisitive 3 Nix -- Illusionist 19 Swann -- Illusionist 9 And yet another movie: Riddick -- Fighter10/Rogue3/Asn5 Kyra/Jack -- Rogue7/Asn3 in order deep rising master of illusion and riddick