>>97577344
To fight off the various incursive threats roaming, and often corrupting, the wilderness and ruins dotting the landscape; and coincidentally enough, this is the object of the game.

>>97577344
She got separated from her friends seven years ago and now she has the chance to go look for them.

>>97577344
He's greedy and poor. Villains are wealthy

>>97577344
Talent for violence and not much else. Combined with disrespect for authorities too blatant to stay in an army.

>>97577344

Secret Agent.

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>>97577344
>fighter needs to fight someone
>wizard needs knowledge
>thief needs money
>cleric needs to fulfill mission from god
>"all right lads, let's get to killing and pillaging"

>>97577344
Foppery and whim.

>>97577344
Basically any excuse to be away from his wife

For the love of the game

>>97577344
Wealth, power, and exotic pussy

>>97577344
His druidic order tasks its members with spending time wandering around and helping people.

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>>97577344
>>97577591
>ranger was bored

>>97577344
To find a way to revitalize their shire's sacred tree and figure out the source of its decay

>>97577344
Died and got brought back to life with a mission from a god. Details of the mission... unclear. I know it has something to do with the guy that killed me, and that I agreed to this mission in return for revenge, but my memory has been pretty fucked up ever since I woke up as a revenant so it basically comes down to the GM just dropping me a note saying when I feel like something is related to me divine mission or not.
I'm pretty sure that I am a deniable asset being used by a god thats not supposed to be interfering in the mortal world and thats why I am on a need to know basis as to what the fuck is going on.

>>97577344
For the bitches, anon. For the bitches.

>>97577344
My first: an orc with a heart of gold who seeks money for his family.
My second: a lunatic elf who gets high for adventures.
My third: seeks to avenge his family for the horrific abomination that killed them. He goes from place to place looking for information and clues to her whereabouts.

>>97578188
>>ranger was bored
unironically my ranger is like that; he just really enjoys the thrill of adventures, going into caves, and killing monsters.

>>97577344
>pic
The subs are a bit off, for a more fitting translation of Brancaleone speech you need something like a fake ye olde english knight speech.

>>97577344

Financial fraud and sexual deviancy.

>>97577344

Moral Injury and Survivor Guilt.

For what reason did this thread need to be posted?

>>97581247
Eh? Do any of the threads on this board 'need' to be posted?
We'd all be fine if the board or website itself didn't exist

>>97581871
The fact that you can't give a straight answer tells me everything I need to know.

He goes on adventures so he can publish books about his adventures.

>>97581894
I just think its a stupid meaningless question and I don't get what point people are trying to make when they ask it

The actual answer is no the creation of the thread wasn't necessary to any degree but someone thought it would be an amusing topic for a thread so they made it
obviously

>>97581913
You don't need to keep going, your concession has already been accepted.

>>97581932
Whatever, your expression of bother about the thread ended up reviving it, so if your real problem was it being up then you played yourself

>>97581960
>"it's okay that I'm being a retard because you called me out for being a retard"
Continue being retarded, then. Enjoy impunity.

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>>97577344
Current character? He escaped a prison-garrison with a note detailing a separated map to a secret relic that promises immortality. Even if it's bunk, the adventure alone would be legendary, and the reward easily worth it.
>>97578188
>>97578334
Same, but also he overheard that the quest recruiters needed help and he's a good boy that thought it could also be an opportunity to learn society and make friends. Objectively weaker than every other party member, but he had enough heart to somehow earn a respectable reputation as a neutral ambassador between factions.

>>97582008
What's retarded? I just want someone to explain to me the logic behind this 'needed' angle
The board is peppered with threads that don't have reasons they 'needed' to be posted. So what? Its people talking and amusing themselves about things they want to, like this one

>>97577344
I really, really do not want to be a dirt farmer

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>>97577344
He had a psychological break one day, decided to fuck off from his plot of land, pick up a sword, and start; raiding old dungeons for stuff, taking on quests for gold, and spending lucrative sums of money on food and booze and whores like the soldiers in the stories.

Since then however he's become incredibly worldly, no longer finds pleasure in raiding and whoring, and has been doing it long enough that people don't call him a pretender knight anymore.
Now he quests to right wrongs, inspire the downtrodden, and defend the innocent, because life is too shit to not take action against, and he's past the age of deluding himself with such petty indulgences.

>>97581247

Why are any of us here? I mean, when you get down to it, it's all so meaningless, isn't it?

>>97582358

Oh, just the usual things: a little place of your own, the right girl...

>>97577344
best movie ever made

Her crew only gets given enough fuel to reach the destination and MAYBE return so she kinda has to go along with it

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Her Hive is struggling against other, stronger Hives and the Queen isn’t as young as she used to be. She was sent on a mission with other Mimics to go to a strange place called the Hollow and find relics of a forgotten era which can be used to help her Hive not just survive, but thrive. She’s on a need to know basis, and deep undercover, and also kind of doesn’t want to be here but she can’t fail the Queen. She takes the form of a goat man after she killed skinned ate and turned him into a skinsuit

>>97577344
Dragon attacks

>>97577344
Male stripping isn't paying what it used to.

>>97577344
To get railed by as many different kinds of monster as she can find.

>nobody who answered the thread topic got responses
>the only discussion came from some retard who can't admit the thread is only here to make /tg/ look more active to advertisers, not to actually generate discussion, and some nihilist who seems to think his opinion should be valued contradictory to his nihilism
You want to keep lying to me, or are you just going to stew in silence while bumping your shitty thread whenever it gets to page 10?
Because I know you'll never admit the truth.

>>97584080
Hi anon, OP here. I'm home with the flu, and I was rewatching Brancaleon the other day in bed, where the screenshot came from. I thought it was pretty funny, and made me wonder about the goals of some of my previous characters that I've run. I should have formulated the question better, but I was running a slight fever and just made it.

>nobody who answered the thread topic got responses
Some were fun, some silly, it's all good

>make /tg/ look more active to advertisers
I don't care either way, the thread will die when it dies. I and I would have earned just as much money if I'd never made it
>You want to keep lying to me
You sound mentally ill. I hope you get better, but you probably won't

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>>97583989
Now I want to see the teamup hunting legendary monsters together and helping each other have a way with them.

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>>97583989
I remember that doujin series.

>>97577344
he's an autist that just wants to travel around and duel the strongest warriors available. like Akuma but more autistic. he also writes poetry

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>>97583989

>>97577344
He just wants to kill people.

>>97582289
I was a great adventurer in my day. I fought back the great wolf of the moors, do they call me Wolf bane. No. I fought off the giants of the north, do they call me giant killer? No. I slew the great red dragon am I know as the dragon slayer? No. YOU FUCK ONE SHEEP!

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My futanari lady knight's primary goal is to ensure her fief is safe. Her secondary goal is forming a harem by sexually taming women (and some of them were once villainesses) and adventuring is a pretty good way to do this.

>>97577344

I took an arrow to the knee and hand.

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>>97585481
I bet that hurt

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>>97577344
Much the same reasons, I expect.

>>97585481
Must have been the wind.

>>97577344

He doesn't "adventure". He's on a mission from his chivalric order, and sees it (rightfully) as an endeavour to be a more respected, powerful and rich noble, with a side of "doing the right thing" against the heretics.
More or less this is how all the "party" works, altough some members are there more for ethical reasons.

It helps that this is not dnd, actually, we're in an historical-ish game.

>>97577344
thirst for great knowledge and the sublime.

>>97585430
AGP is a hell of a drug

>>97591231
What did that poor garloid do to deserve being eaten raw like that

>>97591990
They're just too delicious, anon.

>>97583989
>>97584669
I CAN'T FIND THE SOURCE

>>97592858
I'm afraid my PC is more inspired by Monster Researcher Eclaire and I have no idea what the pic is from either, though it's been floating around for years now.

Character 1: Is a literal soldier in the military, seconded to the party as extra muscle.
Character 2: Needs to pay off thieve's guild dues, but isn't allowed to work in his home town

>>97593025
>Monster Researcher Eclaire
You know what, I'll consider that a win too
Life is like a box of chocolate

>>97577344
To scream racial slurs and every single sentient species

PSTD

>>97591231
I love Brancalonia, the art is great, the setting is perfect, most of the races are good. The classes are a little lackluster, but fun. But I don't care for 5e at all, and I really wish they would have gone for their own system

>>97592858
tryna ID an elf, the elf thread may help, specifically this post >>97585012 with full image that works for reverse search

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>>97577344
To seek out wish granting mcguffins.

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>>97577344
Spite

>>97577344
To find Jeffrey Epstein's home movies.

He was literally built as a (sorta)human weapon and as such goes a little crazy if he doesn't have something combat related to do on a regular basis.

>>97577344
He was an earnest honest farmboy with a lot of magical talent, wasted by getting pulled into the kings war. Instead of becoming a wealthy wizard he backed a battle hardened Artificer, using scraps of magic trash like expended wands & a filtered spell component pouch to keep the men in his squad alive in a war that did not care for them. After the war he couldn't find peace on the farm so he set off with some strangers to adventure & in his mind he would be helping others & changing lives to make up for the atrocities he witnessed.

That didn't last long.

He is now pulled into a war of divinity & again scrapping together ways to keep himself & his party members alive. As God slays God & an evil festers in the shadows of time itself the young man has bolstered his mortal frame with enough magic & enchantment that he's actually now a living biological human construct full of magic power, constantly upgrading himself & his armory. & building an army of golem & homunculi. He also has a demiplane with some people he saved & may actually eventually need to reboot the world with Noah's ark style.

So he is adventuring now because the stakes are too high, he has to win for everyone's sake. If he makes it out alive he wants to settle down & retire to his demiplane farm+workshop with his wife

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He's Dwarven Martin Luther, God is right but the church is wrong.

>>97577344
Specifically to be a hero. He's not a good person, really, he just wants the fame and adoration.

She wanted to follow in her great-uncle's footsteps and become the Royal Historian, so she has traveled to Candlekeep to take advantage of the resources there and takes on the odd adventure while there to get some practical experience, keep her martial skills sharp, and to compile a thesis based on her own experiences so that she can be considered for the position.

>>97577344
BRANCA BRANCA BRANCA

>>97604941
LEON LEON LEON!

>>97577344
I had nothing better to do so I'm here!

>>97577935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJMfue_HX-Q

>>97584690
So Ryu, but with added poetics?

>>97593633
Right there with you anon. 5e sucks donkey dick, Ive taken to running Brancalonia in savage worlds and its been a blast so far!

>>97613917
I have been thinking of trying to convert it into another system, and Swade seems like a good fit. Been reading Tales of Argosa lately, and wondered if that would work, need to turn down the grit pretty hard though

>>97577511
This.
Also, he's violent by hertitage, inclination and culture and violence is in demand.

>>97577344
Were do you even find this movie with subtitles?

He was born a stumpy angry alcoholic with a burning hatred for orcs and an inner yearning for treasure

>>97577344
she on a revenge quest because her experimental Reactor was sabotaged and killed her fiance, also a bunch of magic zealots are out to get her for essentially trying to kick off the industrial revolution

The Bloodhunter wants revenge
The Rogue wants revenge
The Ranger is going overboard on his coming-of-age adventure, because he grew up poor
The Wizard just wants to feel something again
The Warlock wants to collect stories because he thinks it may hold the key to severing the connection with his patron

>>97577344
He's bored and doesn't want to work a 9-5 job.

>>97619494
I googled 'Brancalonia English sub' and it was the first of second result

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Childhood fascination with soldiers led to joining the service to the Empire. Since then, it just snowballed.

>>97577344
>For what reason does your character adventure?
Adventure

>>97592858
Dosukebe Elf No Ishukan Nikki

Thank not this humble Google Fu grandmaster. I ask only that you double it and give it to the next guy.

>>97577344
Lifestyle thats no longer viable in our times. Travel around, doing exciting things to getby, meeting and exploring unknown cultures, all the while forming a vlose bond with teamates thats kind of your family.
Bonus point for fantasy/scifi setting where you can include stuff that we can only dream of. Its really quite sad when you think about it, when we dream togheter, we can foul ourself that our fantasy is more real.
People have many different answers because they look for different things, still its about the way of acquiring it though candy-coated vagabond lifestyle.

>>97577344
She's been looking for her Gold Dragon great grandfather. The guy's pretty elusive.

The fighter survived a goblin raid and has a burning hatred of them.
The priest just wants to help everyone.
The ranger got bored and wandered off for adventure one day.
The dwarf wants good food
The lizard thinks he can be a dragon.

My crew (during some Oracle rng generated missions [learning to play]) took their brand spanking new B spec excelsior class on a shakedown cruise, responded to a distress call, and failed to spot or realise they warped right through/into a temporal anomaly, chucking them back in time to circa cestus 3 and the gorn hegemony starting attacks on the federation. They handily defeated the gorn, rescued the space station
(caught in a temporal anomaly as a side effect of the fucking gorn retards using tricobalt subspace disruptor warheads to breach the defences ez pz, dumbasses, warp cores and ticobalts dont mix, lizards)

They flew away, big damn heroes, and upon breaching the barrier of the anomaly, got chucked not back to thwir own time, but flash dumped all them chronitons and tachyons their vessel was 'charged' with, which spat them out circa ds9 s1.

They spent a year in debrief with their (still brand new) excelsior [hasn't been in service for 50 + years like the others in the fleet] up to uss lakota specs, serving as the tested for what would become the lakota refit package for the class. All the while they learnt what they'd missed, re-trained /cross trained and updated their skills to new tech, saw far flung descendants and dead loved ones graves etc...

Whereupon they went on a 2nd shakedown, which was far more successful and were assigned to the narendra station joint task force for its exploration of the Shackleton expanse.

Their mission, to prove the usefulness of the class, to make sure starfleet doesn't decommission the excelsiors any time soon.

They're a crew out of time, in a brave new world, and they will boldly go where no MAN has gone before, by God, mister! In the best traditions of the service.

Morr appeared to him mid-war and told him to stop killing random soldiers and instead go kill undead and aberrations.

So now he's out there.

>>97577344
He's his own Warlock Patron's loan shark and needs to make sure the party can make their payments on time.

If he does well enough he might be able to buy out his own employment too.

>>97577344
1/2 orc ftr/mnk. was rescued from slavery as a youth by a wandering monk. the monk teaches him martial arts. one day while they were wandering they were ambushed by slavers. we beat the slavers but the monk was mortally wounded. now alone, he wanders the area hunting slavers and taking random jobs for money. he wants to start his own martial arts school.

>>97577344
Greed.
95% of adventurers are neutral evil and are just adventuring for social mobility or some kind of hedonism.

>>97577344
He doesn't.

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>Orzhov Cleric, personality is inspired by Quark from DS9, Charles Winchester from M*A*S*H* and Booster Gold from the green lantern corps.
>In a church of shady merchants
>mediocre at business
>pretty good at the whole fighting cleric thing during guild on guild brawls, but obsessed with being good at business, Willie Lomax style
>decide to try my hand at Machiavellian intrigue
>my carefully constructed plans all fall apart in an instant when the ghost council in charge of the Church gets Yaas Queened
>The assassin ends up in charge of the guild because if I was a council of deathless lawyers that's exactly how I would make a guild, I mean it just makes sense doesn't it yes I'm mad
>my position is in shambles, take out a second mortgage on my soul, buy a sweet +1 holy symbol and fuck off before the news that I'm persona non gratta reaches the merchant
>The DM tells me that I'm dead and have been brought back by a death god type thing to be given another chance on his campaign world, if I help the party do their shit
>decide I didn't QUITE make it, and was given to the demon worshipping murder clowns who run our world's entertainment industry so they could deal with it
>slowly finding out the lifestyle suits him, even if he whines about being away from civilization, even though the family he's loyal to is back in power.

tl;dr Jew half elf fucked up a power play and took it up out of sheer desperation.

>>97577344
Generally speaking I don't give my PCs deep or complex motivations. If I play a Paladin, it's just being on a Mission From God to do Good and smite Evil. For most other characters - usually fighters or barbarians - it's that adventuring is semi slightly more socially acceptable than banditry and it offers a semi slightly legal avenue for murder and bloodshed.

>>97582358
I'm mostly here because I can someone a nigger with relative impunity.

>>97585266
And they call you Welsh.

>>97593633
Well, have you tried ACKS? It's just the greatest thing since sliced bread.

>>97648730
Never heard of it, will read up on it today. What makes it so great?

>>97649279
It's the most complete iteration of TRVE Gygaxian D&D.

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>>97577344
>my dude’s adoptive mom died
>go out to look for birth mother
>get involved in stopping divine temper tantrum
>birth mom gets tied into that and ends up killing her because she tried to sacrifice character
>end up stopping divine temper tantrum
>he is now having an identity crisis and just languishing in a local temple

He is a seasonal fisherman who travels south in winters, and got into monster slaying business there because fighting sea monsters is integral part of fishing anyways.

>>97648730
I'm happy for recommendations, but I don't quite see the connection with Acks and Brancalonia. Acks, from very light research, seems like OSR fantasy Conan with a hint of Hackmaster. Branca is more like low-budget Italian spaghetti-fantasy movie in ttrpg form

>>97577344
He lived in an idyllic small village, but one day, when he got back from exploring an ancient cave, someone evil had burned it down

>>97652366
https://youtu.be/n_azwjhD4yA?si=9YQgVHm702I5mo7x

>>97577344
My last character was a nekomancer who wanted to become a lich.
She eventually succeeded.