Category Archives: Role-playing

Dove

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In my group’s current Cyberpunk 2020 game I play “Dove”. He’s a Solo: a hired gun, assassin, and all-around non-pacifist. Physically, I based him on Brian Cox from Manhunter, then the whole group told me he looks like Scotty from Star Trek. Thanks, guys.

Cyberpunk Character Portrait: Dove

Dove is a product of the European corporate system. That means he’s the best of the best, an alpha predator. If he can get close to his target, guns are clumsy and messy compared to what his hands can do. Give him a gun and it’s one shot, one kill. Playing Dove, I’ve never had to reload during a firefight. He’s a killing machine.

Now where’s the fun in that? Continue reading →

My Role-playing Credentials

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If you’re like me, and I know I am, you grew up sheltered from the evils of role-playing games. You missed out on the real magic spells that D&D teaches you at high levels, and never felt the thrill of going psycho and taking to the subway, hallucinating a snarling orc as you stabbed a homeless man to death.

TSR‘s lurid full-page comic book ads first exposed me to role-playing games. Dungeons & Dragons! Star Frontiers! Those cruddy dungeon crawl comics! I’m surprised they never had a paladin hawking Hostess fruit pies to kobolds.

They made it look so cool (to an impressionable child of a certain age). I remember one ad where a bemulleted badass stared straight off the page and smirked, “I don’t need to hang out. I have D&D.” God, I know! Hanging out… Pfft. Man, I wished I had D&D so I didn’t have to hang out all the time. Continue reading →