When your OC makes an impression, but turns out not to be really playable.
@Austin_Dern See, I had just figured the guy trophy-hunts characters from the Rifts RPG. Ah, how I miss my bionic ninja cowboy werebadger clown and his trusty katana-gun-whip-glaive!
@zebratron2084 Ooh, now, that sounds very interesting.
<- has a weakness for were-characters, especially if the transformation source is something novel.
<- also likes clown characters and is annoyed so many people shut down just at the word.
@Austin_Dern I have... um... _complicated_ aesthetics regarding the whole "clown <-------> harlequin" spectrum. :)
Sadly, that was not a real character, just a hypothetical pisstake on Rifts, but if I do ever get into a Rifts (or for that matter, Torg) campaign ever again, I will be SORELY tempted, I promise you...
@Austin_Dern You know, I can ALMOST make the semiotic math work out for that character concept, but the clown part is gonna be _hard_ not to make sound really contrived...
I'm thinking someone from kind of Weird West universe, like Deadlands or Wild Wild West.
The "bionic" part can be fulfilled easily with steampunky prosthetics.
"Ninja" is rough to reconcile with Wild West without going into some clichéd places I don't like. Maybe they've just been stealth-trained...?
(con't!)
@Austin_Dern Werebadger tempts me to go the lazy route and involve Native American lore, but again, I REALLY don't want to go down that path... We could go down more of a Stephen King horror route, and make that kind of that world's prairie equivalent of the Innsmouth Look, sort of a mole-people heritage only bitier and snufflier?
And clown. Actually, no, that's easy now. Traveling carny. Maybe working undercover for some government occult agency. Maybe just roguish.
Well. I tried. 🐯👍
@Austin_Dern And, I mean, it wouldn't be the MOST overcomplicated character concept I've ever attempted to play. :>
@zebratron2084 Heh! And here I just have 'me, but trying to be made of clay'.
Really clown and ninja seem perfectly aligned to me, taking 'ninja' to be someone who can get into places without being obviously suspicious.
With a flexible enough idea of 'bionic', I mean, there were samurai in 17th-century California and Mexico, so, why not?