In the second story arc of the Clone Wars campaign I direct, the PCs fled to the remote planet Ansion, where the NPC uncle of the party's noble ran an orbital skyhook facility. As a model for this NPC, I chose the protagonist of the hilarious novel A Confederacy of Dunces--a book which I maintain is probably the funniest ever written (my wife, however, steadfastly maintains it did not elicit a single laugh from her). The book's main character, Ignatius J. Reilly, is definitely memorable--here's a description swiped from Wikipedia:
Ignatius Jacques Reilly is something of a modern Don Quixote — eccentric, idealistic, and creative, sometimes to the point of delusion. In his foreword to the book, Walker Percy describes Ignatius as a "slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one."
In the campaign, Ignatius J. Reilly becomes Ignatius D'avilos and I made him a bit more likable and sympathetic (and, in retrospect, less interesting). The PCs actually ended up spending very little time on the skyhook, so I didn't get to role-play him much--probably a lost opportunity. Anyway, without further ado are his RCR stats:
IGNATIUS D'AVILOS
Ansion Mining Skyhook Chief
Diplomat 8
Size: M
Human
Spd. 10
Str. -1
Con. -1
Int. +1
Cha. +2
Defense +2
Initiative: + 0
Melee: Unarmed + 3, damage 1d3-1
Fort Save: +1
Ref Save: +2
Will Save: +6
Feats: Dodge, SE: Diplomancy, SE: Bureaucracy, SE: Mining
Bluff +8, Computer Use +7, Diplomacy + 16, Knowledge: Local + 14, Profession: Administration + 11, Sense Motive +11
Vitality: 0
Wounds: 8
Equipment: Datapad, Comlink, General Access Pass, Credit Stick (4,000 cr.)
Ignatius D'avilos is a short, squat man with a full red beard and mostly bald head. He wears expensive, tailored clothing and ostentatious rings. He is kind & generous, occasionally a bit dim. He still has ties to the Commerce Guild.
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4 comments:
I absolutely HATED that book. You gave it to me when we were first dating and for a while, it gave me serious doubts about your sense of humour. There is not one character in that book that I didn't dislike in the extreme. I didn't find it funny - I wanted everyone in the book to have a house drop on them at the end. *shudder*
The fact that it won a Pulitzer prize for fiction and is considered a canonical work of modern Southern literature calls into question *your* taste, not mine ;)
Because critics are famous for always being right.
It took you two years to come up with that reply?
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