No, I just don't see the point in roleplaying a character that isn't in some way my own. It works in Mass Effect and Dragon Age 2 because while you are playing a pre-determined character, the choices that character makes are yours, thus making the character your own in a way. Roleplaying as some guy from a tv-show or movie just doesn't interest me, I prefer coming up with my own.

My first two playthroughs will be of my own making, but my third with either be Trunks or Gohan. Hopefully lightning when powered up will be a beam of electricity or something cool like that that looks dbz-ish.

I might make a character named Olaf from League of Legends (he's my favorite champion) and Garen (2nd favorite)

I probably won't hardcoe roleplay any specific characters, but I'll definitely have a few characters based off The Lord of the Rings books/movies and the Shannara books in terms of name, appearance, skills and attire.

How about Doctor Oz. I make all the women of Skyrim into Hypo-condriacs, and make them feel fat and useless.

I made a black dude named Robert Neville in Fallout 3. And i always had Dogmeat with me lol.

I will be one of Gnasty Gnorc's surviving generals after the events of Spyro the Dragon, who decides to take action against the dragons that were freed by Spyro in the name of Gnasty Gnorc.

When I'm bored, I go through a game asking myself WWNMD? (what would niccolo machiavelli do?)

Considering that he has been dead for 500 years; he would be dead. That doesn't sound like a very fun playthrough...

Nope, I have something called imagination, so I can be whoever I want.

No, I base my characters around my personality and preferences as much as a game will allow me.

Stupidest idea I've ever had, apart from posting fan fiction, so I just might do it, only for the daftness.
The Culture have discovered a stable super-dimensional wormhole to a younger/smaller universe, and observed a low tech civilisation, able to manipulate fields and grid energy, which they call magic, due to the proto universes underlying physics being altered, owing to a large amount of involvement by otherwise Sublimed entities.
Contact has determined that the entire civilisation is under threat from a hostile Sublimed, known as Alduin, and direct intervention is impossible, any involvement with a Sublimed being a classic Outside Context Problem.
Instead, a Special Circumstances operative has been altered to conform to the genotype Altmer, and equipped with a maniple field enabled neural lace, knife missiles and Everything Dust, all configured to mimic the local 'spell casting'.
It has been determined that the native species 'Dragon' has powers derived from a warp presence that utilises hyperspatial exotic particles, and these particles can be collected and manipulated by the neural lace's multi dimensional fields, leading to the natives confusing the SC op with their mythical figure, the Dovahkiin

Mostly I create my own, however I've found a great challenge in taking an NPC from another series.
One that alot of background infomation is not revealed, but strong traits and strong hints as to certain aspects of their past are brought up now and again.

You then cripple your usual playstyle to match how they, act, think, use magic, hate magic, weapons, armour,... etc.
It makes it less about leveling and refining their "path", and more about would this action suit.
This is how I usually roleplay but with a freshly rolled character you have more freedom of choice.
With an established one the more freedoms you use the less you roleplay, so you have a marker to curb such acts.

Then you have their personality the role, the voice, the likes and dislikes.
With a ret con character you know their speech patterns, how they act to certain stimuli.
The more you speak and think like yourself, the less real it seems.
So you take the 20 to 200 lines a character has spoken, you see which terms they use, which are repeated.
Do they smile, if so how, are they gentle, graceful, thin, fat.
Are they prone to rage, do they seem matronly, domineering, pasive, strong, fatherly, childish, silly, mirthful, happy sad..
All of them, if so where's the line, how much is felt when, do they have a secret, can you think of what it may be.
What happened in their childhood, what about when they grew up.
How strong are their fears, do they have any.

I can make a character on the fly, give outlines and general infomation.
I can go a little bit deeper over a short time, maybe I can by the end of the game have a fully and complete story of everthing this characters has done.
That said with a casual glance I can look at him / her / it and see one or more thing that I picked not because my character would have.
Rather because I wanted too.
A ret con, I've yet to see this with for me at least.

I plan making

Sten, Berserker with beard and dual wield axes!

Well for me I set it up as a "what if this character was born in Tamriel", so I mainly focus on looks, personality, powers, and weapons. Not so much circumstances and story. The only real stipulation is I want the technology to be fairly close to the character I'm making. So I won't be making Sam Fisher or Solid Snake into a TES character.



I hear a lot about Drizzt, what book series is he from? (not a huge fantasy reader, but have been getting more into it, and might check it out.)



It has nothing to do with lack of imagination, like I said in my OP, I make 3-4 of my own characters before I start basing them off anything else, I do it just to mess around and add a change of pace to the game, making such specific characters also helps negate the all powerful characters that original characters usually end up being, since they are restricted by weapons, powers, and personality from the source material.

I dont think I could ever so this, because well, its not your character, so you wouldnt ever really know exactly how they would react to certain situations.

Every-time i role play as a Magic character i am, Nabu/Doctor Fate

i usually just roleplay as myself in any game i sometimes like to save and see alternate routes if i'd say this or this (50% chance i'd say either)

i liked the morrowind predator mod so if they make one for skyrim im sure ill try it out. ill also play a sith when someone makes a lightsaber mod. if you can lower your character height like in morrowind ill also be a smurf and/or puss n boots from shrek.

edit: almost forgot boba fett if someone makes his armor as well.

Raziel from soul reaver.

wielder of umbra, and always be full vampire.

My characters are usually unique, but often I will use a name I created in another game.

For example, a mage character I played through Baulder's Gate loaned his name to a mage I played in Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion.

One female character I played in Oblivion was inspired, or based on the character, Crysania, who was from the Dragonlance series of books. However, I did not call her "Crysania" in Oblivion. But, my character was rather, more based on her character type and somewhat, her physical image, a priestess with white robes, and dark hair, etc.

My characters are not generally based on movie, or television characters. My mage would never be, "Gandalf."

The main character I have in mind for Skyrim is inspired by a combination of several female characters from the Eddas (Eddur) and Sagas from Norse Mythlogy.

I thought about playing a Tai Lung-like khajiit (you know, the antagonist snowtiger from the movie 'Kung Fu Panda'). I was inspired by the black, cold and rocky mountains from the trailor who very much look like the mountains he escape from in the movie. I hope we have to fight our way out of prison this time and, of course, that H2H is still in the game.




He's from the Baldurs Gate series. He's a good dark elf (drow) who dualwield sabres.

My favourite re-creations of celebrities and characters from games and movies are usually my favourite band, Cloud Strife, Solid Snake, Kazuma Kiyru, loads more I love to make.

@ArchMageSynok,

Here is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzt_Do%27Urden providing more information about your inquiry of Drizzt.

I do Gordon Freeman in Fallout (he can use any weapon but he's favourite is the crowbar )

That was the only time... I have not inspiration :/