It occurred to me that it might be enjoyable to have a thread where one could tell of one's favorite characters and stories from other games...

This is a great idea:
I am in a Star Trek Adventures game.  The first couple of sessions were meant to introduce the Primary Characters to each other. But because of interesting timing, not only did our meet and greet get disrupted, but the crew of the USS. Dauntless lead the way on uncovering a Romulan infiltration plot of Starfleet HQ. Narrowly avoided losing a Primary Character and Auxiliary Crew Character to an bomb that went off in the apartment of a suspected spy, but the Captain re-tasked them and had to make it an Order, to get them abandon the suspect and leave it to to Starfleet security under the direct prevue of an Admiral.  Tracked down another Romulan spy in the science building, found some black ops labs and a Bajoran Orb of the Prophets.  And this all occurred before the ship's refit was completed and she was ready to launch.  And thus began, the adventures of the USS Dauntless, under Captain K'Hell Hunter, Cmd. Sitock, Lt. Cmd. Six, Lt. Cmd. Sage, Lt. Adler and Dr. Mizu (the Primary Characters).

I have a Xan in a D&D game a Gnome Illusionist, a happy little bobble head. Not as childlike as Xan in the God game but she is fun to play. She has been illusioning buckets on heads, false slime, a dwarven beard to tease the party dwarve and other fun things. She is a blast to play. We saved a Dragonborn Paladin whom she is afraid will eat her. *Gulp*

I've been privileged to have been in many incredible games with dozens of very talented role players.
I can talk about many of them, but the first one I'll talk about is one of the first ones I joined on Rpol.  And, funnily enough, it turned out to be also the first game I GM'd here on Rpol.

It was a freeform superhero game called "Every Girl For Themselves", that was similar to the TV show "Heroes", where ordinary people living ordinary lives found themselves suddenly with superpowers.   We were to make up a regular person, with one Major Power and one Minor Power.
The other caveat was that the character had to be female.   This was no problem for me, and I created Kayla Elizabeth Stone, a nerdy and somewhat frazzled ER doctor who, after a particularly traumatic night in the ER, developed the power to summon disks made of solid light, roughly the size of manhole covers, that she could hurl at people, use as shields, or even stand on to fly.
I'd only playing for about a month when the GM sent me a message, asking if I'd like to be his assistant GM.   He wanted some extra help with NPCs and plotlines.
My new character, GM Mercy, was born.
I played both as a player and an Assistant GM for another month, making sure I kept the two identities separate.    Kayla, for obvious reasons, took a bit of a backseat in the game setting.
Then the main GM vanished from Rpol.   Apparently a victim of that horrible affliction we call "Real Life".   I was the only GM left, and he and I had barely spoken about the game, so I had no clue what his plot was, who his Big Bad was, or even what he'd planned next.

Luckily, I had two things going for me.
One, I'm not a totally inexperienced GM, so I've improvised sessions many times before.
Two, the players in the game were a dozen or so of the best role players I'd ever gamed with.   They loved their characters, and these women reveled in their interactions with each other.   Even the simplest plots and diversions were treated like an exciting adventure, with lots of in-jokes and friendly chatter.

We had some characters leave the game, and I found myself interviewing new people.
I decided to keep the previous GM's rule of "female characters only".  It seems like an odd rule, but he explained it to me like this:
"I wanted a way to screen out bad role players.  It occurred to me that most of the worst role players were, and still are, immature younger men.  And most of them would absolutely loathe the idea of playing a girl character.  Or, at least, they'd want to play some weird, misogynistic fantasy of a woman.  In other words, they'll show themselves out."

So, that's what I did.  And it worked very well.   There was an occasional "stripper with hypnotic boobs", but otherwise I added another half dozen wonderful players.

About a year or so later I revealed to everyone that I was both Kayla and GM Mercy, and was gratified that no one had suspected anything.

Interestingly enough, I used Amber as the plotline for the game, deciding to make the game Earth an experiment, trying to make a new, more powerful kind of warrior/minion.  And the random powers on random people was collateral damage.
I was making it up on the fly, but I had plans to eventually have two Elder or two Amber cousins battling in the streets of "the great city of Centropolis", with the players getting involved to level the playing field.

As it turned out, the game, despite two years of soap opera style fun and thrills, eventually petered out, as I ran out of ideas.
The game ended amicably, and we all went our separate ways.   I still talk to some of the players, from time to time, too.

Ballad's heard this story already, but:


So yeah I like playing guys who talk their way out of stuff. Not even always CON MEN, not Rinaldo/Lukes, just guys who always act like conflict is just a misunderstanding that they can straighten out if you'd just listen to them for like four minutes (even when it is NOT actually just a misunderstanding).

In a Dungeon World game I'm in, every other player but me disappeared (as often happens on RPol), and until we got to the end of the storyline, the GM decided heck with it, it's this guy's solo game for a little while.

BEFORE the other players disappeared:

--A thief stole a list of names (thieves' guild stuff, we found out later) that we were supposed to get back.

--We trailed the thief to some bandits in the woods that he's hiding out with

--My kill-happy teammates killed two bandits guarding the perimeter.

--I cast invisibility and just walked in and found the thief. He'd given the list to the bandit chief for safe-keeping; it was in the chief's tent

--I walked out and cast a different spell (meaning Invisibility wore off)

--A new bandit patrol showed up and my teammates (who hadn't gone AWOL yet) started picking a fight with them.


Then the last players went AWOL... and I took over...


--I calmed down the bandits

--A monster suddenly showed up to attack

--We all ran from it into the bandit camp

--I got the bandits to go attack the monster. Charge!

--I told the thief to go get the list from the bandit leader's tent and give it to me (and he did)

--THEN we went and helped defeat the monster

--Then I asked the bandit leader if he'd seen the thief with the list we were looking for

--He offered to sell me the list THAT I ALREADY HAD IN MY POCKET for 200 gold

--I said we'd go tell our employer the offer and see what he said

--We left

--Then the thief caught up with us and we ran before anyone found out about the dead perimeter guards.


This is what a "Let Us Reason Together" PC can bring to the party....

This isn't playing, but more GMing. I ran a "one shot" for a group of friends in a Mage game we all took part in, where you could kind of volunteer to run storylines and people could volunteer to be in them and it was hella sandboxy but there was an overarcing GM. Anyway, the "one shot" was an event where these little unicorns that seemed to be made out of tapestry material but were able to move around and talk were being kind of magic and eating gnosis (for they were spirit things), and the Mages ran into the unicorns.

Literally every female PC who ran into them was SO charmed and immediately tried to help them.

Literally every male PC who ran into them was super, hyper-suspicious and NOT charmed. One of them tried to treat the spirit unicorn things like they were part of a gang and was trying to wheel and deal with the unicorn.

The PCs all ran around like mad trying to figure out where the unicorns came from, and it devolved into a caper involving trying to heist an Italian art piece on tour at the local art museum, but with magic.

It was a great deal of fun for everybody, and especially for me.