Comments on: 3 famous characters to jumpstart your D&D campaign

By: Buckster

Buckster — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:08:29 +0000

What about Voldemort?

By: Philip Hogan

Philip Hogan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:53:51 +0000

Vlad Tepes – or Vlad the Impaler. He was the model for Count Dracula – but also a real life badass – he killed 40,000 turks in one battle – then staked the prisoners. He made pyramids of the heads of slaughtered enemies. He was a hero for defending the country from Turks – but so bloody he was vilified by writers at the time – (partly propaganda). Could be a morally ambiguous leader – fighting off a horde using the most harsh tactics and inspiring terror in the enemies.

By: dirk

dirk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:03:28 +0000

I just finished watching a Military Channel special over Tokugawa Ieyasu. Military mind, right on the edge of when gunpowder was being used for military use in Japan, began the Shogunate that bore his name for the next 250 years until Japan sought to be a modern nation. From fiction, Torunaga from James Clavell’s Shogun… I’ll probably adapt Tokugawa to be a major character in my next campaign. Powerful warlords, double betrayal, uniting nations, civil war… pretty awesome story.

By: hobozeke

hobozeke — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:03:11 +0000

Just a little note to check out simo hayha, he is one of the less known but equally amazing historical figures.

By: Ian winterbottom

Ian winterbottom — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:47:25 +0000

Mention of Shakespeare has me thinking; as well as a playwright and poet he was an actor/producer, pretty notorious profession in those days, full of Mountebanks and Charlatans, even outright criminals. Many of his acquaintances would have been on the fringe of the law if not outside it. Other actors such as Christopher Marlowe were occasionally professional spies employed by Walsingham, spymaster to Good Queen Bess, in the days of Religious strife and international intrigue, France and Spain were often at England’s throat. Marlowe was murdered, possibly to silence him? What if your Players – meaning actors – are secretly conmen or spies, who better than a Bard to charm the multitude while secretly watching or robbing them? And that Thief-Acrobat could come into his own?
Also think about Smugglers, Russell Thorndyke’s Doctor Syn series is about a country parson with a secret identity as the Scarecrow, leader of the smuggling gangs of Romney Marsh, and with a hidden past as a Pirate Captain!