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Old 07-31-2009, 05:43 PM   #1
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Default Infinite Worlds: ISWAT Character Ideas

Besides the Iconic characters from the main book, does anyone have any ideas for other members of ISWAT?

Also, could you have any (not all though) of them possibly come from an already featured world (pref ably from Infinite Worlds books itself)?
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Old 07-31-2009, 06:20 PM   #2
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There needs to be an ISWAT team for dealing with more "gothic" worlds, composed of people named Harker, Morris, Holmwood, Seward, Murray, and Van Helsing; albeit with different first names.
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Old 07-31-2009, 06:38 PM   #3
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How about a comic book character as an ISWAT member? They needn't be superheroic or superpowered in any large way either.
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Old 07-31-2009, 07:03 PM   #4
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Rip off Torg. A hero with a jetpack, a reptiloid panentheist, a secular dwarvenist magician, a werewolf, and a cyborg exorcist.
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Old 07-31-2009, 11:43 PM   #5
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A fallen Angel or reformed demon from an In Nomine parallel.

Or if that raises too many problems with angels from other parallels another Mythological being being from the appropriate parallel.


Or how about Odyseous? Other heroes from Mythological parallels?
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Old 08-01-2009, 12:09 AM   #6
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A world jumper possibly with cosmic to jump out of coventry might make for a nice maverack.

A humanoid spy robot.
Classic zombie hunter with immunity and high shotgun skill.
Super naturist from a primitive world for trips to anti-technology worlds
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Old 08-01-2009, 09:17 AM   #7
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A toy transformer-like being from a timeline where said toys developed sentience and took over the world. The particular character would be the last survivor of a advanced scouting party that managed to cross into Homeline, and has been captured and reprogrammed to serve ISWAT. Basically an 8" tall robotic meglomaniac that has no choice but to follow orders.
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Old 08-01-2009, 10:10 AM   #8
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I have always seen the ISWAT worlds as open source for ALL of the Gurps world books... so you could have a IST world and characters from Supers 2e/3e.
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Old 08-01-2009, 10:11 AM   #9
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I have always seen the ISWAT worlds as open source for ALL of the Gurps world books... so you could have a IST world and characters from Supers 2e/3e.
And as the vampire guy shows, you can have murderering bad guys as IST characters.
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Old 08-01-2009, 10:43 AM   #10
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This thread made me think about how Homeline scientists - presumably as materialist and skeptical of objective Evil as those in our world (with as many exceptions, but even those tend to keep their beliefs out of professional papers and such) - will deal with worlds where objective Evil is a fact. Especially if the evidence of its physical existence isn't clear at first, and/or there are different kinds and definitions in different worlds.

I can imagine a lot of papers about how native diabolists and newly-turned vampires buy into local myths and internalize them, arguing for their enlightened inclusion into ISWAT teams after psychological counseling... and a slowly growing group of supernaturally powered agents who have no earthly reason at all to promote evil for evil's sake - but do, anyway. And hide it.

Probably too religious a theme for a game I'd enjoy, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
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